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S'gaw people

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Myanmar
  
7,000,000

Australia
  
11,000+

Sweden
  
1,500

Thailand
  
1,000,000

Canada
  
5,000

S'gaw people

USA
  
64,759 (Came as refugee only from mid 2000s to July 1, 2015)

The S'gaw, also known as Skaw, S'gaw, S'gau, White Karen, Paganyaw, Pgaz Cgauz and Pakayo, are an ethnic group of Burma and Thailand. They speak the S'gaw Karen language.

The S'gaw are a subgroup of the Karen (Kayin) people. They are also referred to by the exonym "White Karen", a term dating from colonial times and used in contrast to the Karenni (or "Red Karen") and the Pa'O (or "Black Karen"), even though the latter often rejected the term "Karen" to refer to themselves.

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S'gaw people Wikipedia