The Cirebonese or Cirebonese people (Sundanese: , Urang Cirebon) are an Austronesian ethnic group and nation native on the city of Cirebon and its immediate surrounding area, located in the northern part of the island of Java in Indonesia. The Cirebon people are a subgroup of the Sundanese, numbering approximately 1.9 million, the Cirebonese are mostly Muslims. Their language, Cirebonese, is a mixture of Javanese and Sundanese, with a heavier influence from Javanese, and as such is variably classified as either a dialect of both of those languages or as an independent language.