Vietnamese people in Finland (Vietnamese: Người Việt tại Phần Lan; Finnish: Suomen vietnamilaiset) form one of the country's largest groups of Southeast Asian people.
According to Statistics Finland, in 2017 there are 10,817 people with a Vietnamese background, 9,872 people whose mother tongue is Vietnamese,[5] 8,012 people who have been born in Vietnam, and 5,603 people with Vietnamese citizenship[2] residing in Finland.
The Vietnamese-Finnish community includes both ethnic Vietnamese and Sino-Vietnamese.
[6] The majority of the Vietnamese in Finland are Mahayana Buddhist, with a 12% Christian minority.
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