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<p>Romanians are a <a href="/facts/Romance_languages/TMK4KHI3">Romance-speaking</a> ethnic group and <a href="/facts/Nation/ed3XkH6y">nation</a> native to <a href="/facts/Central_Europe/VdxzSbJz">Central</a>, <a href="/facts/Eastern_Europe/f5CDGzNA">Eastern</a>, and <a href="/facts/Southeastern_Europe/zxgEvCdQ">Southeastern Europe</a>. Sharing a <a href="/facts/Culture_of_Romania/jyYozS4e">common culture</a> and <a href="/facts/Cultural_heritage/rGqpLGgk">ancestry</a>, they speak the <a href="/facts/Romanian_language/zAY3GnkL">Romanian language</a> and live primarily in <a href="/facts/Romania/yolzk5cN">Romania</a> and <a href="/facts/Moldova/qGBNGewt">Moldova</a>. The <a href="/facts/2021_Romanian_census/DzmIsDKL">2021 Romanian census</a> found that 89.3% of Romania's citizens identified themselves as ethnic Romanians. </p><p>In one interpretation of the 1989 census results in Moldova, the majority of <a href="/facts/Moldovans/8H8X5zXB">Moldovans</a> were counted as ethnic Romanians as well. Romanians also form an ethnic minority in several nearby countries situated in Central, Southeastern, and Eastern Europe, most notably in <a href="/facts/Romanians_in_Hungary/xrHTfzuy">Hungary</a>, <a href="/facts/Romanians_in_Serbia/yctYLBfT">Serbia</a> (including <a href="/facts/Vlachs_of_Serbia/yvu9BSs7">Timok</a>), and <a href="/facts/Romanians_in_Ukraine/SmkNdk9e">Ukraine</a>. </p><p>Estimates of the number of Romanian people worldwide vary from 24 to 30 million, in part depending on whether the definition of the term "Romanian" includes natives of both Romania and Moldova, their respective diasporas, and native speakers of both Romanian and other <a href="/facts/Eastern_Romance_languages/orpbyExD">Eastern Romance languages</a>. Other speakers of the latter languages are the <a href="/facts/Aromanians/CBtqI85g">Aromanians</a>, the <a href="/facts/Megleno-Romanians/CwaFDs6G">Megleno-Romanians</a>, and the <a href="/facts/Istro-Romanians/G73vlUnG">Istro-Romanians</a> (native to <a href="/facts/Istria/eRrGTECc">Istria</a>), all of them unevenly distributed throughout the <a href="/facts/Balkans/5Hy8ly0d">Balkan Peninsula</a>, which may be considered either Romanian subgroups or separated but related ethnicities. </p>