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Total population | |
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Approximately 3–5 million (2009 estimate);[1] NB: it is illegal for the French State to collect data on ethnicity and race. | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Saint Martin, Réunion, Mayotte, New Caledonia | |
Languages | |
French, French Creoles, New Caledonian languages, African languages | |
Religion | |
Majority Christianity or Islam, minority Irreligion and Traditional African religions | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Sub-Saharan Africans · Melanesians |
African descendants who are France citizens.
The absence of a legal definition of what it means to be "black" in France, the extent of anti-miscegenation laws over several centuries, the great diversity of black populations (African, Caribbean, etc) and the lack of legal recognition of ethnicity in French population censuses make this social entity extremely difficult to define, unlike in countries such as the United States.