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Spaniards

Испанцы · Q160894

language area per Glottologcensus counts
1,175
in Russia, 2021 census
42,216,326
Spain, 2025 (citizenship)
Indo-European
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

In Russia's 2020 census (reference date 1 October 2021), 1,175 people identified with the nationality "Испанцы" (Spaniards)1. That is less than 0.01% of the 130,587,364 residents who stated a nationality.

Rosstat also assigns 8 other self-designations to this nationality (listed in Russian in the source table).

Main language: Spanish. Glottolog classifies it in the Indo-European family.

Russia, 2021 census

Sex

Men 708 · 60.3%Women 467 · 39.7%

Urban and rural

Urban 1,076 · 91.6%Rural 99 · 8.4%

Where: the 10 regions with the largest numbers

Moscow (city)
510
Moscow Oblast
118
Saint Petersburg (city)
90
Republic of Tatarstan
38
Rostov Oblast
26
Republic of Bashkortostan
26
Krasnodar Krai
22
Belgorod Oblast
20
Republic of Crimea (as listed by Rosstat)
18
Volgograd Oblast
16

Source [1]: Rosstat, 2020 census, vol. 5, table 1

Official figures from other countries

Figures from different countries do not add up: censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry). The type is shown on each figure.

Spain · 2025
42,216,326
Category as printed: «nacionalidad española»citizenship
[2] Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE)

Languages and their lineage

Spanish

  1. Indo-Europeanindo1319
  2. Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
  3. Italicital1284
  4. Latino-Faliscanlati1262
  5. Latiniclati1263
  6. Imperial Latinimpe1234
  7. Romanceroma1334
  8. Italo-Western Romanceital1285
  9. Western Romancewest2813
  10. Shifted Western Romanceshif1234
  11. Southwestern Shifted Romancesout3183
  12. West Ibero-Romancewest2838
  13. Castiliccast1243
  14. Spanishstan1288

Occitan

  1. Indo-Europeanindo1319
  2. Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
  3. Italicital1284
  4. Latino-Faliscanlati1262
  5. Latiniclati1263
  6. Imperial Latinimpe1234
  7. Romanceroma1334
  8. Italo-Western Romanceital1285
  9. Western Romancewest2813
  10. Shifted Western Romanceshif1234
  11. Southwestern Shifted Romancesout3183
  12. Occitanicocci1240
  13. Occitanocci1239

Asturian-Leonese-Cantabrian

  1. Indo-Europeanindo1319
  2. Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
  3. Italicital1284
  4. Latino-Faliscanlati1262
  5. Latiniclati1263
  6. Imperial Latinimpe1234
  7. Romanceroma1334
  8. Italo-Western Romanceital1285
  9. Western Romancewest2813
  10. Shifted Western Romanceshif1234
  11. Southwestern Shifted Romancesout3183
  12. West Ibero-Romancewest2838
  13. Asturo-Leoneseastu1244
  14. Asturian-Leonese-Cantabrianastu1245

Catalan

  1. Indo-Europeanindo1319
  2. Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
  3. Italicital1284
  4. Latino-Faliscanlati1262
  5. Latiniclati1263
  6. Imperial Latinimpe1234
  7. Romanceroma1334
  8. Italo-Western Romanceital1285
  9. Western Romancewest2813
  10. Shifted Western Romanceshif1234
  11. Southwestern Shifted Romancesout3183
  12. Catalanstan1289

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

RussiansMarathiGermansMexicansEnglishIrishAmericansItaliansRomaniansNepali (Khas-Arya)DutchBelarusiansCzechsScotsSerbsBulgariansCubansBraziliansWelshGreeksMacedoniansArmeniansUkrainiansSlovaks

Sources

  1. Rosstat. National composition of the population of the Russian Federation. Results of the 2020 All-Russian Population Census (reference date 1 October 2021), vol. 5, table 1. Tom5_tab1_VPN-2020.xlsx (archived copy)
  2. Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE). Censo anual de población 2025 (nota de prensa, 2 de diciembre de 2025). https://ine.es/dyngs/Prensa/es/CensoVariables2025.htm
  3. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)