Vietnamese people in Finland explained

Group:	Vietnamese people in Finland
Native Name:	Người Việt tại Phần Lan Suomen vietnamilaiset
Popplace:	Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa, Turku, and Tampere
Langs:	Vietnamese, Finnish, Swedish
Rels:	Vietnamese folk religion, Mahayana Buddhism^[1] and Roman Catholicism
Related:	Vietnamese people in Norway and other overseas Vietnamese

Vietnamese people in Finland (;) 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,^[2] 8,012 people who have been born in Vietnam, and 5,603 people with Vietnamese citizenship residing in Finland. The Vietnamese-Finnish community includes both ethnic Vietnamese and Sino-Vietnamese.

Demographics

Vietnamese people by Municipality in 2017^[3] !No.! Municipality! Vietnamese! %

1.	Helsinki	2,436	0.38
2.	Vantaa	1,620	0.74
3.	Espoo	1,128	0.41
4.	Turku	741	0.39
5.	Tampere	522	0.22

Religion

The majority of the Vietnamese in Finland are Mahayana Buddhist, with a 12% Christian minority.

See also

• Finland–Vietnam relations

Sources

• Book: Kosonen, Liisa. Growing Up Vietnamese in Finland: Looking Back 12 Years Later. Helsinki. Department of Social Psychology, University of Helsinki. 2008. 978-952-10-5018-3.
• Book: Nurmi, Jari-Erik . Karmela Liebkind . Adolescents, Cultures, and Conflicts: Growing Up in Contemporary Europe. Acculturation and Adaptation. Taylor & Francis. 1990. 0-8153-2389-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=92Ii7I6oAOkC&q=%22Liisa+Kosonen.+%22+Vietnamese&pg=PA199.

Notes and References

1. http://giacngo.vn/tuvien/chuavnnuocngoai/2010/09/14/5F7459/ Chùa của người Việt ở Phần Lan bị đốt
2. Web site: The largest foreign-language groups 1997 and 2007. Statistics Finland. 2008-03-28. 2008-10-28.
3. http://pxnet2.stat.fi/PXWeb/pxweb/fi/StatFin/StatFin__vrm__vaerak/statfin_vaerak_pxt_032.px/?rxid=726cd24d-d0f1-416a-8eec-7ce9b82fd5a4