Somali Britons
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| Somali Britons
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| Total population |
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Est. 100,000 |
| Regions with significant populations |
| London, Sheffield, Liverpool, Cardiff, Birmingham, Manchester, Leicester and Bristol. |
| Languages |
| Somali, English, Arabic |
| Religion |
| Sunni Islam |
The United Kingdom, with 45,000 official residents in 2001, is home to one of the largest Somali communities in Europe. However, the figure is now estimated to be much higher, somewhere around 100,000 people.
Somali nationals that were granted permanent settlement in the UK totaled 43,050 people during the period between 1992 and 2002. Although most Somalis in the UK are recent arrivals, there has been a Somali presence in Britain since the early 20th century.
Somalis are concentrated in the London, Sheffield, Liverpool, Cardiff, Birmingham, Manchester and Leicester areas. These communities have had large Somali communities for many decades.
The Sheffield Somali community is the second largest and one of the oldest in the United Kingdom, with Somalis having lived in Sheffield since the 1930s. However, most of the current population in Sheffield first began settling there in the 1980s due to unrest and drought in their homeland. Official estimates of the Somali community in Sheffield range from 3,000 to 12,000, but there are no official statistics.
Recently, other cities like Newcastle, Bristol, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Hull have also seen large numbers arrive.
The Somali community in Britain is the second largest community of Somalis in the Western World after Canada.
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