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In the 1900 census the city had about 10.000 people of Finnish descent. A Finnish language newspaper, New Yorkin Uutiset (New York News), was published from 1906 to 1996. In 1930 the number of people with Finnish descent reached a bit over 20.000. In 2010 there lived 3000 Finns in the New York City metropolitan area. [2]
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The Nordic countries are a geographic region which consists of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Finland, and Åland. Though these regions have a shared cultural history, they contain culturally distinct historical populations, including the Sámi people and the Norse people.
The port of New York, imports of Swedish iron, and the prevalence of Swedish mariners factored in making New York City the principal port of entry for Swedish immigrants. [12] Swedes have been persistent during the long history of New York City, but have never been a major immigrant group in the metropolitan region.
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A large percentage of the immigrants that came to New York City after 1965 were from non-European countries. [5] Large numbers of Irish people arrived in New York City during the Great Famine in the 1840s, while Germans, Italians, Jews, and other European ethnic groups arrived in NYC mostly during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [5]
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According to the survey, there were 177,643 multiracial Americans residing in New York City. People of black and white ancestry numbered at 37,124, making up 0.4% of the population. People of white and Asian ancestry numbered at 22,242, making up 0.3% of the population.