263,298[1] (estimate, 2016; slightly less than 0.1% of US population)
Regions with significant populations
Sacramento, California area • San Francisco Bay Area (esp. Oakland) • Twin Cities, Minnesota • Dallas-Fort Worth area • Fresno and Central California • San Diego • Nashville, Tennessee • Seattle area • Portland, Oregon • Los Angeles area[2]
Lao people, overseas Laotian, Laotians in France, Laotian Canadians, Asian Americans,
Laotian Americans (Lao: ຄົນລາວອາເມລິກາ) are Americans who trace their ancestry to Laos. Laotian Americans are included in the larger category of Asian Americans. The major immigrant generation were generally refugees who escaped Laos during the warfare and disruption of the 1970s, and entered refugee camps in Thailand across the Mekong River. They emigrated to the United States during the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s.
The category ‘Laotian American' includes all ethnic groups who lived within the borders of Laos, except the Hmong community.[3]
^"U.S. Immigrant Population by Country of Birth, 2000-Present" (XLSX). migrationpolicy.org. Archived from the original on January 27, 2017. Retrieved February 14, 2017.
^"Asian Americans: Laotians in the US". Pew Research.
LaotianAmericans (Lao: ຄົນລາວອາເມລິກາ) are Americans who trace their ancestry to Laos. LaotianAmericans are included in the larger category of Asian...
characters. Hmong Americans (RPA: Hmoob Mes Kas, Pahawh Hmong: "𖬌𖬣𖬵 𖬉𖬲𖬦 𖬗𖬲") are Americans of Hmong ancestry. Many Hmong Americans immigrated to the...
The Laotian Civil War (1959–1975) was a civil war in Laos waged between the Communist Pathet Lao and the Royal Lao Government from 23 May 1959 to 2 December...
Korean Americans (Korean: 한국계 미국인) are Americans who are of full or partial Korean ethnic descent. The majority of Korean Americans trace their ancestry...
States census, English Americans 46.5 million (19.8%), German Americans 45m (19.1%), Irish Americans 38.6m (16.4%) and Italian Americans 16.8m (7.1%) were...
are the fourth-largest Asian American ethnic group following Chinese Americans, Indian Americans, and Filipino Americans. There are approximately 2.3...
Iranian Americans are citizens or nationals of the United States who are of Iranian ancestry. Most Iranian Americans arrived in the United States after...
White Americans (also referred to as European Americans) are Americans who identify as white people. This group constitutes the majority of the people...
Thai Americans (Thai: ชาวอเมริกันเชื้อสายไทย; formerly referred to as Siamese Americans) are Americans of Thai ancestry. The Thai American population...
group of Asian Americans after Chinese Americans. Indian Americans are the highest-earning ethnic group in the United States. In the Americas, the term "Indian"...
Lebanese Americans (Arabic: أمريكيون لبنانيون) are Americans of Lebanese descent. This includes both those who are native to the United States of America, as...
Palestinian Americans (Arabic: فلسطينيو أمريكا) are Americans who are of full or partial Palestinian descent. It is unclear when the first Palestinian...
Somali Americans are Americans of Somali ancestry. The first ethnic Somalis to arrive in the U.S. were sailors who came in the 1920s from British Somaliland...
Bangladeshi Americans (Bengali: বাংলাদেশী মার্কিনী, romanized: Bangladeshī Markinī) are Americans of Bangladeshi descent. Most Bangladeshi Americans are also...
Arab Americans (Arabic: عَرَبٌ أَمْرِيكِا or الأمريكيون العرب) are Americans of Arab ancestry. Arab Americans trace ancestry to any of the various waves...
Romani Americans (Romani: romani-amerikani) are Americans who have full or partial Romani ancestry. It is estimated that there are one million Romani people...
Nigerian Americans (Igbo: Ṇ́dị́ Naìjíríyà n'Emerịkà; Hausa: Yan Amurka asalin Najeriya; Yoruba: Àwọn ọmọ Nàìjíríà Amẹ́ríkà) are Americans who are of Nigerian...
Brazilian Americans (Portuguese: brasileiros americanos or americanos de origem brasileira) are Americans who are of full or partial Brazilian ancestry...
Haitian Americans (French: Haïtiens-Américains; Haitian Creole: ayisyen ameriken) are a group of Americans of full or partial Haitian origin or descent...
Jamaican Americans are an ethnic group of Caribbean Americans who have full or partial Jamaican ancestry. The largest proportions of Jamaican Americans live...
Taiwanese Americans (Chinese: 臺灣裔美國人) are Americans who carry full or partial ancestry from Taiwan. This includes American-born citizens who descend from...
Salvadoran Americans (Spanish: salvadoreño-estadounidenses or estadounidenses de origen salvadoreño) are Americans of full or partial Salvadoran descent...
U.S. population, and about 2.50% of Asian Americans; more specifically, around 8% of South Asian Americans. Immigrants from modern-day Pakistan (formerly...
French Americans or Franco-Americans (French: Franco-Américains) are citizens or nationals of the United States who identify themselves with having full...
European Americans, or Americans of European descent, are descendants of European settlers and immigrants. This term includes both people who descend...
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