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The Basque (Basque: euskaldunak; Spanish: vascos; French: basques) are an indigenous ethnic group who primarily inhabit an area traditionally known as the Basque Country (Basque: Euskal Herria) a region that is located around the western end of the Pyrenees on the coast of the Bay of Biscay and straddles parts of north-central Spain and south-western France.The Basque are known as:Euskaldunak in Basque (this ethnonym means the speakers of the Basque language; to refer to all the inhabitants of the Basque Country the name euskal herritarrak is preferred)Vasco in SpanishBasque in French and English.Basco in Gascon and Portuguese.↑ ↑ ↑