Vietnamese people in Finland ( Vietnamese: Người Việt tại Phần Lan; Finnish: Suomen vietnamilaiset) form one of the country's largest groups of Southeast Asian people. According to Statistics Finland, in 2017 there are 10,817 people with a Vietnamese background, 9,872 people whose mother tongue is Vietnamese, ^[5] 8,012 people who have been born in Vietnam, and 5,603 people with Vietnamese citizenship ^[2] residing in Finland. The Vietnamese-Finnish community includes both ethnic Vietnamese and Sino-Vietnamese. ^[6]

Demographics

Religion

The majority of the Vietnamese in Finland are Mahayana Buddhist, with a 12% Christian minority.^{[ citation needed]}

Notable Finnish people of Vietnamese descent

See also

• Finland–Vietnam relations

References

Sources

• Kosonen, Liisa (2008). Growing Up Vietnamese in Finland: Looking Back 12 Years Later (PDF). Helsinki: Department of Social Psychology, University of Helsinki. ISBN  978-952-10-5018-3.
• Nurmi, Jari-Erik; Karmela Liebkind (1990). "Acculturation and Adaptation". Adolescents, Cultures, and Conflicts: Growing Up in Contemporary Europe. Taylor & Francis. ISBN  0-8153-2389-1.