The Portuguese of France, numbering approximately 984,000 people, are No Longer 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.