Norwegian Brazilians

{{Short description|Norwegian Immigrants to Brazil}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2021}}

{{Notability|date=May 2024}}

{{Infobox ethnic group|

|group = Norwegian Brazilians

|flag = {{flagicon|Norway}} {{flagicon|Brazil}}

|native_name = {{small|Norueguês-brasileiros}}
{{small|Norsk-brasilianere}}

|population= Unknown

|popplace = Natal, South Region and Southeast Region

|rels= Protestantism (especially Lutheranism) and Roman Catholicism

|langs= {{hlist| Brazilian Portuguese | Norwegian }}

|related=Norwegians, Norwegian Americans, Norwegian Canadians, Norwegian Australians, Norwegian New Zealanders

}}

Norwegian Brazilians are Brazilian citizens who identify themselves as being of full or partial Norwegian ancestry or people who emigrated from Norway and reside in Brazil.{{cn|date=May 2024}}

Norwegian immigration to Brazil started at the end of the 19th century,{{Cite web|last=Figueiredo|first=Clarisse Carvalho|date=2012|title=Invisible Migrants. Norwegians in Brazil, 1820–1940|url=https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/25176/Figueiredo_master.pdf|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=August 7, 2020|website=www.duo.uio.no}}{{Cite book|last=Norwegians in Southern Brazil|first=Adventurers to Settlers |title=Expectations Unfulfilled: Norwegian Migrants in Latin America, 1820–1940|publisher=Brill|year=2016|isbn=9789004307391|location=|pages=57–76}} as well as several other waves of European immigration. The community of Norwegians and their descendants in Brazil is estimated to be the 3rd largest in the world, being surpassed only by the Norwegian communities in the United States and Canada.{{cite web|url=http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_09_1YR_B04003&prodType=table|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150215231840/http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_09_1YR_B04003&prodType=table|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 15, 2015|title=American FactFinder – Results|first=U.S. Census|last=Bureau|website=Factfinder2.census.gov|accessdate=October 18, 2017}}{{cite web |url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=PR&Code1=01&Geo2=PR&Code2=01&Data=Count&SearchText=01&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&Custom=&TABID=3 |author=Statistics Canada |title=2016 National Household Survey: Data tables |date=February 8, 2017 |accessdate=April 14, 2019|author-link=Statistics Canada }}

Influences of the Norwegian community in Brazil can be found in Curitiba, home to the {{ill|Museu Alfredo Andersen|pt|lt=Alfredo Andersen Museum}},{{Cite web|title=A Instituição – Museu Casa Alfredo Andersen|url=http://www.mcaa.pr.gov.br/modules/conteudo/conteudo.php?conteudo=7|access-date=August 8, 2020|website=www.mcaa.pr.gov.br}} as well as in the Colonia Dona Francisca that originated the largest city in the state of Santa Catarina, Joinville, home to the Centreventos Cau Hansen.

In recent years,{{when|date=September 2022}} a few Norwegians and even Swedes have migrated to the littoral zone of the state of Rio Grande do Norte (mainly in Natal) and Ceará, attracted by the beaches and the tropical climate.{{Cite web|title=UOL HOST – Avisos|url=http://www.imobiliariabrasil.com/por/noticias/rio_grande_dos_nordicos_dos_espanhois_portugueses_ate_islandeses_europeus_compram_casas_com_certificado_de_sol/97/|access-date=August 8, 2020|website=www.imobiliariabrasil.com}}