South Slavic Peoples
South Slavs are divided along linguistic lines into two groups — eastern and western.
List of the South Slavic peoples and ethnic groups, including population estimation figures (2001):
- Serbs = 10 to 10,500,000
- Bulgarians = 9,000,000
- Croats = 6,000,000 to 7,500,000
- Bosniaks = 3,500,000
- Slovenes = 2,500,000
- Macedonians = 2,200,000
- Montenegrins = 340,000
- Yugoslavs, Muslims by nationality, and other minor ethnic groups
All together: about 40 million including other minor groups
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