View Poll Results: Which countries would yo consider to be Germanic

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  • Germany

    358 94.71%
  • Austria

    304 80.42%
  • Switzerland

    221 58.47%
  • Netherlands

    318 84.13%
  • Belgium

    153 40.48%
  • Luxembourg

    221 58.47%
  • Denmark

    308 81.48%
  • Sweden

    292 77.25%
  • Norway

    287 75.93%
  • Finland

    43 11.38%
  • Iceland

    203 53.70%
  • United Kingdom

    191 50.53%
  • France

    31 8.20%
  • others (specify)

    30 7.94%
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    I think France,
    Switzerland and Benelux are genetically mostly Celts but Latinized or Germanized, depending of regions, except Brittony which stays Celtic.
    The ancient Gaul was invaded by a lot of tribes (especially Germanic ones) but the influence was more cultural than genetic because they didn't represent an important number of persons compare to the Gaulish population . So I don't consider them as pure Germans (guys, please don't think it's a negative opinion)

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    France could only be considered Germanic if we were to be talking about specifically of the Normandy people.

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    For me the ones which I see as "solely" Germanic are Scandinavian ones (Sweden, Norway and Denmark, some small Finnic influence in Sweden notwithstanding). Iceland and the Faroe Islands, though being islands in the middle of the Atlantic, can count as well as they were settled by the population coming from modern Norway).
    The Netherlands (Frisia, Holland etc.) surely count as Germanic.

    As for the rest of those typically considered Germanic - most indeed are, but with a "but":

    *Austria - half Germanic, half Slavic (Austrians come from Bavarians who expanded into the Carinthian lands in Central Europe [Carinthians are the ancestors of modern Slovenians])

    *Germany - 2/3 Germanic, 1/3 Slavic (despite being probably the most obvious choice for a typical Germanic country modern Germany contains a significant amount of lands formerly not inhabited by the Germanic but rather the Lechitic (Polish) tribes and peoples in what is now East Germany and additionally it formerly held a large swaths of land in Central Europe (Poland and Czechia) and the Baltics, with Germanization of the local population contributing a significant amount of admixture of West Slavic genes. To this day many major cities in modern East Germany, like Berlin or Lubeck holds the names preserving the language of its former inhabitants.
    To this day around 3 million Poles (mostly later immigrants) are the biggest ethnic minority in Germany, with another closely related group descended from the Lechitic tribes, the Lusatian Sorbs, still existing close to the border of Poland and Czechia.

    Switzerland - actually surprisingly Germanic given its rather mixed population. A Calvinsist faith makes them both somewhat distinct and also pretty Germanic, however it still obviously is not even close to being fully Germanic.

    England - modern English people are not necessarily closer to the Germanic people than they are to the Celts from the British Isles and their language is a mix of Romanic (Latin and French) and Germanic (Anglic).

    Belgium - a curious case of a state with two major ethnic groups, each of which feels closer to the neighboring country rather than its own.
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    All countries and regions in Europe where a Germanic language is spoken.

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