Americans of Chinese descent
| Total population | |
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| 4,760,804 (except Taiwanese) (2015 United States surveys) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| New York City Area, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles Area, Sacramento, Houston, Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, Austin, Tampa, Orlando, Seattle, Atlanta, Metro Detroit, Honolulu, Portland, Oregon, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, Columbus, Chicago, Phoenix | |
| Languages | |
| Predominantly English, varieties of Chinese: Mandarin Chinese (Standard Chinese), Yue Chinese (Cantonese, Taishanese), Min Chinese (Eastern,Southern), Hakka, Wu Chinese (Taihu Wu, Oujiang Wu), and Minority Uyghur. |
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| Religion | |
| Confucianism, Taoism, Unaffiliated, Buddhism, Protestantism, Catholicism, Islam | |
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Asian Americans, Hong Kong Americans, Overseas Chinese, Chinese Canadians, Taiwanese Americans |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Huáyì Měiguórén |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | wà yeuih méih gwok yàn |
| Jyutping | waa4 jeoi6 mei5 gwok3 jan4 |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Měijí Huárén |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | méih jihk wà yàn |
| Jyutping | mei5 zik6 wa4 jan4 |
Chinese Americans, also known as the American Chinese, are Americans who have full or partial Han Chinese ancestry. Chinese Americans constitute one group of overseas Chinese and also a subgroup of East Asian Americans, which is further a subgroup of Asian Americans. Many Chinese Americans are immigrants along with their descendants from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, as well as from other regions that include large populations of the Chinese diaspora, especially Southeast Asia and some Western countries like Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Brazil.
The Chinese American community is the largest overseas Chinese community outside of Asia. It is also the third largest in the Chinese diaspora, behind the Chinese communities in Thailand and Malaysia. The Chinese American community comprises the largest ethnic group of Asian Americans, comprising 25.9% of the Asian American population as of 2010. Americans of Chinese descent, including those with partial Chinese ancestry constitute 1.2% of the total U.S. population as of 2010. According to the 2010 census, the Chinese American population numbered approximately 3.8 million. In 2010, half of Chinese-born people living in the United States resided in the states of California and New York.
The first Chinese immigrants arrived in 1820, according to U.S. government records. 325 men are known to have arrived before the 1849 California Gold Rush, which drew the first significant number of laborers from China who mined for gold and performed menial labor. There were 25,000 immigrants by 1852, and 105,465 by 1880, most of whom lived on the West Coast. They formed over a tenth of California's population. Nearly all of the early immigrants were young males with low educational levels from six districts in Guangdong Province.
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