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India Square, in the heart of Bombay, Jersey City, New Jersey, home to one of the highest concentrations of Asian Indians in the Western Hemisphere, [1] is one of at least 24 Indian-American enclaves characterized as a Little India which have emerged in the New York City Metropolitan Area, with the largest metropolitan Indian population outside Asia, as large-scale immigration from India ...
About one-half of the Asian American population lived in the West, with California having the most total Asian Americans of any state, at 4.2 million. [33] As a proportion of the total population, Hawaii is the only state with an Asian American majority population, at 58 percent; [ 33 ] [ note 1 ] Honolulu County had the highest percentage of ...
The list below is organized by state or territory and, within each state or territory, by population size. The percentage of each city's population that is Asian American is listed in parentheses next to the city's name. There are 51 communities in four states and two territories with Asian-American majority populations.
The first Asian American to be elected to the United States Congress was Dalip Singh Saund in 1957. The highest ranked Asian American to serve in the United States Congress was Senator and President pro tempore Daniel Inouye, who died in office in 2012. There are several active Asian Americans in the United States Congress
List of U.S. cities with large Filipino American populations; List of U.S. cities with large Japanese American populations; List of U.S. cities with significant Korean American populations; List of U.S. cities with large Indian American populations; List of U.S. cities with large Sikh American populations
Since 1957, 41 Asian Americans have been elected as U.S. Representatives and 9 as U.S. Senators. Hawaii was the first of four states to send an Asian American to the Senate (1959) and Illinois is the most recent state to elect a senator of similar descent for the first time (2016).
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Chinese Americans are the largest group at nearly 2% of the state’s population and 1.4% Chinese alone. Japanese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Indians, and Filipinos are plentiful. Seattle is 5% Chinese, and 15% Asian. Nearby Bellevue has a larger Chinese and Asian/Asian Indian population, at least 25%.