The Greeks of Canada, numbering approximately 201,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as a Southern European people whose culture has been shaped by a long continuity of life in the eastern Mediterranean, a shared Greek language, Orthodox Christian traditions, maritime connections, and a strong historical consciousness They are an Diaspora people, with Greek as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Greek people cluster of the Eurasian Peoples. Their primary religion is Eastern Orthodox Christianity. They primarily speak Greek.