| Total population |
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| approx. 932,000 residents as of 2009.[1] |
| Regions with significant populations |
| Rome, Milan, Florence, Palermo, Brescia, Venice, Genoa, Turin, Parma, Bologna |
| Languages |
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Italian, Afro-Asiatic languages, Niger–Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages |
| Religion |
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Predominantly Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christianity, Islam |
African immigrants to Italy include Italian citizens and residents originally from Africa. Immigrants from Africa officially residing in Italy in 2009 numbered about 932,000 residents.[1]
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The largest group of immigrants from Africa are from North Africa, numbering about 647,000 official residents in 2009.[2] By country of origin, most of these recent arrivals are from Morocco (431,529), Tunisia (103,678), Egypt (82,064) and Algeria (25,449). Unofficial estimates are considerably higher. Italy also has a number of immigrants from Libya (1,468), Somalia (7,728), Eritrea (12,967) and Ethiopia (8,350), territories where Italian expatriates had a presence during the colonial period.
Compared to North and Northeast Africans, the percentage of West and Central Africans as a proportion of immigrants to Italy from Africa is 30.6% (approximately 307,000 residents).[3]
West Africans represent the majority of Sub-Saharan Africans in Italy, who number around 307,000.[4] mostly coming from Senegal (72,618), Nigeria (48,674) and Ghana (44,353).
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