The Portuguese of Belgium, numbering approximately 56,500 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as a Southwestern European people native to Portugal whose culture has been shaped by Atlantic maritime traditions, the Iberian environment, Roman and medieval influences, Roman Catholic heritage, and centuries of overseas exploration and global exchange They are an Diaspora people, with Portuguese as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Portuguese, European people cluster of the Eurasian Peoples. They mostly adhere to Roman Catholicism and Portuguese is their primary language.