 There were significant ethnic German populations in such areas as Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine at one time.As recently as 1990, there were one million standard German speakers and 100,000 Plautdietsch speakers in Kazakhstan alone, and 38,000, 40,000 and 101,057 standard German speakers in Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan, respectively.There were reportedly 500,000 ethnic Germans in Poland in 1998.