Notable people
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| Total population | |
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| est. 200,730 (2017) [1] [2] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Île-de-France, Aquitaine, Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrénées, Brittany, Poitou-Charentes, Corsica, Centre-Val de Loire | |
| Languages | |
| German, French, Italian, Romansh | |
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| Swiss Reformed Church, Orthodox and Catholicism, | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Swiss |
Swiss migration to France has resulted in France being home to one of the largest Swiss-born populations outside Switzerland. Migration from the Switzerland to France has increased rapidly from the 1980s onward and by 2013 there were an estimated 194,500 [2] Swiss citizens living in France. [3] Besides Paris, the Swiss living in France have formed communities primarily in Southern France, Brittany, and Corsica.
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