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  2. Asian Americans in California - Wikipedia

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    California possesses the largest Thai population outside of Asia, and is the only state in the country that has a designated "Thai Town," which is also the first of its kind globally. Of the 5.6 million Asian people in California, approximately 68,000 are Thai, which is 28.5% of the entire Thai population in the United States.

  3. Chinese American enclaves in the San Gabriel Valley

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    Monterey Park, California. Little Taipei (Chinese: 小臺北) was an informal name given to the city of Monterey Park, California, in the late 1970s because of the large immigrant population from Taiwan. [6] (Taipei is the capital city of Taiwan.) The city council had tried, and failed, to pass English-only sign ordinances, because of safety ...

  4. Chino, California - Wikipedia

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    Chino (/ ˈ tʃ iː n oʊ / CHEE-noh; Spanish for "Curly") [7] is a city in the western end of San Bernardino County, California, United States, with Los Angeles County to its west and Orange County to its south in the Southern California region. Chino's surroundings have long been a center of agriculture and dairy farming, providing milk ...

  5. History of Chinese Americans in Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    Chinatown, Los Angeles. Historically there has been a population of Chinese Americans in Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.As of 2010, there were 393,488 Chinese Americans in Los Angeles County, 4.0% of the county's population, and 66,782 Chinese Americans in the city of Los Angeles (1.8% of the total population).

  6. Chinese Americans - Wikipedia

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    San Francisco, California has the highest per capita concentration of Chinese Americans of any major city in the United States, at an estimated 21.4%, or 172,181 people, and contains the second-largest total number of Chinese Americans of any U.S. city. San Francisco's Chinatown was established in the 1840s, making it the oldest Chinatown in ...

  7. Hispanics and Latinos in California - Wikipedia

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    The Mexican Revolution also brought many refugees to California, including many Chinese Mexicans who fled Mexico's anti-Chinese sentiment during the war and settled in the Imperial Valley. In the early 1930s, the US began repatriating those of Mexican descent to Mexico, of which 1/5th of California Mexicans were repatriated by 1932.

  8. Chinese Americans in San Francisco - Wikipedia

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    The Gateway Arch (Dragon Gate) on Grant Avenue at Bush Street in Chinatown. The Chinese arriving in San Francisco, primarily from the Taishan and Zhongshan regions as well as Guangdong province of mainland China, did so at the height of the California Gold Rush, and many worked in the mines scattered throughout the northern part of the state. [3]

  9. History of Chinese Americans - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese moved to California in large numbers during the California Gold Rush, with 40,400 being recorded as arriving from 1851 to 1860, and again in the 1860s when the Central Pacific Railroad recruited large labor gangs, many on five-year contracts, to build its portion of the transcontinental railroad. The Chinese laborers worked out well ...