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The largest Asian group are Indians, who are at least 110,000 in number as per the 2010 US Census reports, [citation needed] and at least 1.2% of the state's population. . Chinese, Koreans, and Vietnamese make up at least 0.5% of the state's population, with Koreans making up about a percent and having a history of being the largest East Asian g
The demographics of Virginia are the various elements used to describe the population of the Commonwealth of Virginia and are studied by various government and non-government organizations. Virginia is the 12th-most populous state in the United States with over 8 million residents [ 2 ] and is the 35th largest in area.
Vietnamese-Americans immigrated to the United States in different waves. The first wave of Vietnamese from just before or after the Fall of Saigon/the last day of the Vietnam War, April 30, 1975. They consisted of mostly educated, white collar public servants, senior military officers, and upper and middle class Vietnamese and their families.
Asian Americans started to become a significant part of the Washington metropolitan area in the late twentieth century.. Fairfax County, Virginia, Montgomery County, Maryland, and Arlington, Virginia are the largest jurisdictions with high concentrations of Asian Americans in the region:
Northern Virginia also has a significant population of Vietnamese Americans, whose major wave of immigration followed the Vietnam War. [202] Korean Americans have migrated there more recently, [203] while about 45,000 Filipino Americans have settled in the Hampton Roads area. [204]
Virginia counties and cities by year of establishment. The Commonwealth of Virginia is divided into 95 counties, along with 38 independent cities that are considered county-equivalents for census purposes, totaling 133 second-level subdivisions. In Virginia, cities are co-equal levels of government to counties, but towns are part of counties.
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By the end of the Vietnam War, 15%, or 3,000, of the nation's Vietnamese population resided in the Washington, D.C. area, [2] and many more joined. The most densely settled Vietnamese areas in Northern Virginia were along Wilson Boulevard and Columbia Pike, extending west towards Falls Church and Annandale.