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The world-famous major city, the US' largest (8-9 million people), is known for its local subculture (esp. Brooklyn and the Bronx). Similarly, Bostonians, Michiganians [27] and Californians moved across the US and the world. [citation needed] Nigerian diaspora, people from the country of Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa.
Emigration from the United States is the process where citizens and nationals from the United States move to live in countries other than the US, creating an American Diaspora (Overseas Americans). The process is the reverse of the immigration to the United States .
People of the African immigrant diaspora are the most educated population group in the United States—50 percent have bachelor's or advanced degrees, compared to 23 percent of native-born Americans. [125] [126] The largest African immigrant communities in the United States are in New York, followed by California, Texas, and Maryland. [124]
The largest Bosnian-American communities in the US are found in St. Louis (Bevo Mill's "Little Bosnia"); followed by Chicago, Jacksonville, New York City, Detroit and Houston. [9] Atlanta has Georgia's largest Bosnian-American community with over 10,000 in the metro area, most of whom can be found in Gwinnett County's Lawrenceville. [10]
The African diaspora in the Americas refers to the people born in the Americas with partial, predominant, or complete sub-Saharan African ancestry. Many are descendants of persons enslaved in Africa and transferred to the Americas by Europeans, then forced to work mostly in European-owned mines and plantations, between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Ethiopian Americans are Americans of Ethiopian descent, as well as individuals of American and Ethiopian ancestry. The largest Ethiopian American community is in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, with some estimates claiming a population of over 200,000 in the area; other large Ethiopian communities are found in Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Las Vegas, Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue, Denver ...
New Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has the largest percentage of Lithuanian Americans (20.8%) in its population in the United States. Chicago has historically had the largest number of Lithuanian Americans and the largest Lithuanian diaspora in the world. [3] [4] Lithuanian Americans form by far the largest group within the Lithuanian diaspora.
The Icelandic American community in Spanish Fork, Utah, was settled by Mormon Icelanders. The states with the largest reported Icelandic Americans are: California 6,000 Washington 5,976 Minnesota 3,165 North Dakota 3,161 Utah 2,970 Wisconsin 294 New York 1,427 Florida 1,348 Oregon 1,200 Ohio [11] 1,156 Texas 1,147 Illinois 981