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South Slavic Peoples

South Slavs are divided along linguistic lines into two groups — eastern and western.

List of the South Slavic peoples and ethnic groups, including population estimation figures (2001):

  • Serbs = 10 to 10,500,000
  • Bulgarians = 9,000,000
  • Croats = 6,000,000 to 7,500,000
  • Bosniaks = 3,500,000
  • Slovenes = 2,500,000
  • Macedonians = 2,200,000
  • Montenegrins = 340,000
  • Yugoslavs, Muslims by nationality, and other minor ethnic groups

All together: about 40 million including other minor groups

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