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| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 119,000 (Metropolitan France)[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Paris,Overseas France,French Alps | |
| Languages | |
| Bengali,English,Mauritian Creole,Gujarati,French,Hindi,Urdu,Seychellois Creole,Konkani,Malayalam,Punjabi,Tamil,Réunion Creole,Sindhi,Antillean Creole,Marathi,Telugu,Guianese Creole,Malagasy and several otherIndian languages | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly:Hinduism Minority:Sikhism,Islam,Catholicism,Protestantism,Jainism,Buddhism,Zoroastrianism,Ravidassia | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Non-resident Indian and Person of Indian Origin,Indians in Germany,Indians in Switzerland,Indians in Italy,British Indians,South Asians in Ireland |
Indo-French people orIndians in France are residents fromIndia in France, as well as people of Indian national origin. According to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, there are an estimated 119,000overseas Indians living inmetropolitan France, in addition to 367,379 in the Frenchoverseas departments and regions ofGuadeloupe,Réunion,Martinique andFrench Guiana.[1]
A majority of France's minority ethnic Indian community originate fromChandernagor ofWest Bengal andPuducherry, the two formerFrench colonies in India, mostly comprisingBengalis (from Chandernagor),Tamils, Malayalis as well asTelugus (from Pondicherry).
Later arrivals tomainland France were mostlyGujaratis,Sindhis,Konkanis,Punjabis, a later wave ofKeralites from Kerala state in South India (ethnolinguistically similar with those migrated fromKaraikal district, Pondicherry) and also twice-migrantIndians fromMauritius (Biharis, Telugus, Marathis and Tamils),French Guiana (Tamils, Malayalis and Telugus),Guadeloupe (mostly Tamils),Seychelles (Tamils, Gujaratis and Biharis),Réunion (Tamils, Telugus and Gujaratis),Martinique (Tamils, Telugus, Punjabis, Gujaratis and Sindhis) andMadagascar (mostly Gujaratis).
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|---|---|---|
| South Asia | ||
| Southeast Asia | ||
| West Asia | ||
