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Somalis in the United Kingdom include British citizens and residents born in or with ancestors from Somalia. It is thought that the United Kingdom is home to the largest Somali community in Europe with 99484 Somali-born residents of England recorded by the 2011 Census and an estimated 115000 Somali-born immigrants residing in the UK in 2010 according to the Office for National Statistics.The earliest Somali immigrants in the UK were seamen and merchants who arrived in the 19th century.