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Appendix K
Classification of the 2006 countries of citizenship
Modified on December 11, 2007
Country of citizenship (single citizenship)
Canada
- Canada, by birth
- Canada, by naturalization
Other countries of citizenship
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Andorra
- Angola
- Antigua and Barbuda 1
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Belize
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Brunei Darussalam
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia 2
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- China, People's Republic of 3
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the 4
- Congo, Republic of the
- Costa Rica
- Côte d'Ivoire 5
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Czechoslovakia, n.o.s. 6
- Denmark 7
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- East Timor8
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Finland
- France and dependencies 9
- French, n.o.s. 10
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guinea Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Holy See (Vatican City)
- Honduras
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran 11
- Iraq
- Ireland (Eire)
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Korea, North 12
- Korea, South 13
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos 14
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya 15
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macedonia 16
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mali
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Micronesia, Federated States of
- Moldova, Republic of
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar 17
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Netherlands and dependencies 18
- New Zealand and dependencies 19
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Norway
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palau 20
- Palestine/West Bank/Gaza Strip 21
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Qatar
- Romania
- Russian Federation
- Rwanda
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa 22
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia and Montenegro
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa, Republic of
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Swaziland
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria 23
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania, United Republic of
- Thailand
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom 24
- United Kingdom - British citizens 25
- United Kingdom - dependent territories 26
- United States of America 27
- Uruguay
- USSR, n.o.s. 28
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela 29
- Viet Nam 30
- Western Sahara
- Yemen
- Yugoslavia, n.o.s. 31
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- Stateless 32
Endnotes
- Formerly known as Antigua.
- Formerly known as Kampuchea.
- Includes all persons who reported 'People's Republic of China', as well as persons who reported 'Macau', the former dependency of Portugal, and all persons who reported 'Hong Kong'. Macau and Hong Kong are now special administrative regions of China. Also includes persons born in Hong Kong who reported a citizenship of 'British national overseas', or 'British dependent territory citizen', or 'Stateless'.
- Formerly known as Zaire.
- Also known as Ivory Coast.
- The abbreviation 'n.o.s.' means 'not otherwise specified'. Includes persons who reported 'Czechoslovakia'. In 2006, the 2001 designation 'n.i.e.' (not included elsewhere) was replaced with 'n.o.s.' to be consistent with the classifications used in other census variables.
- Includes Faroe Islands and Greenland, a dependency of Denmark.
- The official name is the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste.
- Includes France as well as the following dependencies of France: French Polynesia, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, New Caledonia, Réunion, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and Wallis and Futuna, as well as responses of 'French dependency'.
- The abbreviation 'n.o.s.' means 'not otherwise specified'. Includes persons who reported 'French'. In 2006, the 2001 designation 'French responses' was replaced with 'French, n.o.s.' to be consistent with the classifications used in other census variables.
- The official name is the Islamic Republic of Iran.
- The official name is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
- The official name is the Republic of Korea.
- The official name is the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
- The official name is Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
- The official name is the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
- Formerly known as Burma.
- Includes Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles and Aruba, as well as responses of 'Netherlands dependency'.
- Includes New Zealand, Niue, Tokelau, and Cook Islands, as well as responses of 'New Zealand dependency'.
- Formerly known as Republic of Belau.
- Palestine refers to pre-1948 British mandate Palestine. West Bank and Gaza Strip are the territories referred to in the Declaration of Principles, signed by Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1993. However, since responses to the census are self-reported, it is not clear that responses of 'Palestine', 'Gaza Strip' or 'West Bank' were in reference to these territories as defined.
- Formerly known as Western Samoa.
- The official name is the Syrian Arab Republic.
- The official name is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
- Includes persons who reported 'British citizen' and 'British national overseas', excluding those who reported 'Hong Kong' as their place of birth. Those who reported 'Hong Kong' as their place of birth and who reported 'British' as their citizenship are included in 'People's Republic of China'.
- Includes the following dependencies of the United Kingdom: Anguilla, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn, Saint Helena (also known as St. Helena and Ascension), Turks and Caicos Islands and the British Virgin Islands, as well as responses of 'British dependency'.
- Includes United States of America, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and American Samoa, as well as responses of 'American dependency'.
- The abbreviation 'n.o.s.' means 'not otherwise specified'. Includes persons who reported 'USSR'. In 2006, the 2001 designation 'n.i.e.' ('not included elsewhere') was replaced with 'n.o.s.' to be more consistent with the classification used in other census variables.
- The official name is the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
- The official name is the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
- The abbreviation 'n.o.s.' means 'not otherwise specified'. Includes persons who reported 'Yugoslavia'. In 2006, the 2001 designation 'n.i.e.' ('not included elsewhere') was replaced with 'n.o.s.' to be consistent with the classifications used in other census variables.
- Persons who reported 'Stateless' as their country of citizenship, excluding those who reported 'Hong Kong' as their place of birth. Those who reported 'Hong Kong' as their place of birth and who reported 'Stateless' as their citizenship are included in 'People's Republic of China'.
