In modern times, its population inhabits Germany, including the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

[1][2] Nowadays there are about five million descendants of Germans in Brazil, a part of these Brazilians are of Pomeranian origin.

[3][4] In the High Middle Ages, groups of people migrated to Pomerania during the Ostsiedlung.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, many Pomeranians emigrated to prospering West German industrial centers or overseas during the Ostflucht.

After World War II, most of the former Province of Pomerania became Polish, and nearly all Pomeranians living east of the Oder-Neisse line fled or were expelled to post-war Germany.