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( Ukrainians)
44-45 million[citation needed] Most ethnic Ukrainians, about 37 million in total, live in Ukraine where they make up over three-quarters of the population. The largest Ukrainian community outside of Ukraine is in Russia, about 3 million Russian citizens consider themselves ethnic Ukrainians, while millions of others (primarily in southern Russia and Siberia) have some Ukrainian ancestry. There are also almost 2.1 million Ukrainians in North America (1.2 million in Canada and 890,000 in the United States). Large numbers of Ukrainians live in Brazil (400,000), Kazakhstan (about 500,000), Moldova (450,000), Poland (estimates from 300,000 to 400,000), Argentina (305,000), Belarus (estimates from 250,000 to 300,000), Portugal (100,000), and Slovakia (55,000). There are also Ukrainian diasporas in the UK, Germany, Romania, Latvia and former Yugoslavia. Numerous nomadic tribes inhabited territories now known as Ukraine in antiquity. They included Iranic-speaking Scythians and Sarmatians, and also Greeks from the Black Sea colonies; Thracians from modern-day Bulgaria and Illyrians; Germanic-speaking Goths and Varangians as well as Turkic-speaking Bulgars, Khazars, Pechenegs and Cumans; and finally, the Crimean Armenians in the early 2nd millennia AD. However, Ukrainian origins are predominantly Slavic while non-Slavic nomads who mostly lived in the steppes of southern Ukraine had little influence on the ancestors of modern Ukrainians.[28]
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