| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 258,600 [2] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| United States | 125,628 [2] |
| French Polynesia | 45,000 |
| New Caledonia | 25,000 |
| Samoa | 18,000 |
| Solomon Islands | 18,000 |
| Fiji | 16,000 |
| Papua New Guinea | 5,100 |
| American Samoa | 4,700 |
| Tonga | 2,000 |
| Kiribati | 1,100 |
| Cook Islands | 1,000 |
| Easter Island | c. 1,000 |
| Norfolk Island | 80 |
| Pitcairn Islands | c. 47 |
| New Zealand | Unknown |
| Australia | unknown |
| Languages | |
| Polynesian languages Melanesian languages Micronesian languages English, French, Spanish | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly (Christianity) Protestantism and Roman Catholicism Minority : Indigenous religion, Animism, Islam, some Atheism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Polynesians, Micronesians, Melanesians, Vazaha, Americans, Australians, New Zealanders, English people, French people, other various European ethnic groups | |
Euronesian is an umbrella term and portmanteau for people of mixed European and either Polynesian, [3] Melanesian or Micronesian descent. [4] The term is most commonly used in Samoa. British or French colonizers, missionaries and traders, as well as some descendants of Spaniards and Polynesians in Easter Island (where Chilean law and generic Chilean social views name them mestizos), and descendants of Spaniards and Micronesians in Guam, Northern Marianas, Marshall Islands, Caroline Islands, and Palau. [5] ʻAfakasi is the common term of reference for euronesians in Samoa; [1] in Fiji, the term Kailoma is usually used. [6]
Distinct Euronesian groups include the Hawaiian Hapa haole , Tahitian demis, Ōbeikei Islanders, Pitcairn Islanders, Norfolk Islanders, and Palmerston Islanders.
One of the Samoan terms for the islands' part-European population is 'afakasi. This term does not necessarily have the same negative connotations as its English translation 'half-caste'.
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