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==Immigration into Lithuania== | ==Immigration into Lithuania== | ||
==Emigration From Lithuania== | ==Emigration From Lithuania== | ||
*Lithuanian diaspora: the majority of post-WWII Lithuanians live in North America '''(Canada and the United States)''' and across Europe '''(France, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Sweden, Netherlands and England)''', but are scattered across '''Russia and the former USSR''', and smaller numbers in '''Mexico and Brazil'''. | |||
*Between 1880 and 1910, over 40,000 Lithuanian Jews immigrated to '''South Africa''' to avoid persecution. To date around 80% of the 75,000 Jews in South Africa (around 60,000) are of Lithuanian descent. | |||
*The Litvins in northern Belarus and westernmost Russia are of ethnic Lithuanian and Baltic origin.<ref>"List of diasporas", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diasporas#L, accessed 28 July 2021.</ref> | |||
==Records of Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ==Records of Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ||
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