The Portuguese of United States, numbering approximately 863,000 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. Their primary religion is Roman Catholicism. They primarily speak Portuguese.