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→Ancestry and Immigration"Tasmania", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmania#Ancestry_and_immigration, accessed 8 April 2022.
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==Ancestry and Immigration<ref>"Tasmania", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmania#Ancestry_and_immigration, accessed 8 April 2022. </ref>== | ==Ancestry and Immigration<ref>"Tasmania", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmania#Ancestry_and_immigration, accessed 8 April 2022. </ref>== | ||
Tasmania's population is more homogeneous than that of other states of Australia, with many of Irish and British descent.mApproximately 65% of its residents are descendants of an estimated 10,000 "founding families" from the mid-19th century. | |||
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At the 2016 census, the most commonly nominated ancestries were: | At the 2016 census, the most commonly nominated ancestries were: | ||
*English (47.7%) | *English (47.7%) | ||