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The New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metro Area, is by far the largest populous Metro Area in the United States.

Total Population: 19,768,458

Census Data

Foreign Born - 3,791,179
Language Spoken at Home - 11,533,510

[Source: American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Foreign Born and Language Spoken at Home]

Quick Facts

Ride the Subway in NY to catch a vision for NY's people group diversity! New York City Subway has 842 miles of subway track to serve 5.4 million every weekday.

Home to over 1 million Asian and 600,000 European foreign born people.

New York City alone has 3 large “Chinatowns” (Manhattan’s Chinatown, Sunset Park in Brooklyn and Downtown Flushing, Queens) with as many as 7 smaller ones in Metro New York.

Home to the largest South Asian Indian population in the Western Hemisphere.

Home to the largest total Asian population in the United States.

Home to the largest Jewish and Israeli populations outide of the nation of Israel.

Home to the largest Arab, Palestinian population in the United States, with its Little Ramallah in Paterson, New Jersey.

Largest population of Puerto Rican outside their home country.

New York City alone is 36% Foreign Born.

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Two Key Words describe the Metro - DENSITY and DIVERSITY of the Population. The New York Metro Area is, without a doubt, one of the most ethno-linguistically and culturally diverse cities in the world.

It's almost impossible to walk down the street without seeing the vibrant interweaving of other cultures and hearing people speak languages other than English. To be in the New York Metro Area is to be in an area of countless tongues. The languages of the world are deeply ingrained in every corner of the Metro Area, and with them, their distinctive cultures.

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People Group Profiles

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PG Name	Country Of Birth	Affinity Bloc	Primary Religion	Baseline Population Total

Vietnamese	Vietnam	Southeast Asian Peoples	Buddhism	38,710
Chinese, Mandarin	China	East Asian Peoples	Buddhism	250,000
Sinhalese	Sri Lanka	South Asian Peoples	Buddhism	7,500
Tibetan	China	Tibetan / Himalayan Peoples	Buddhism - Lamaism	13,000
Chinese, Hokkien	Taiwan	East Asian Peoples	Buddhism - Mahayana	27,000
Burmese, Bhama	Myanmar [Burma]	Tibetan / Himalayan Peoples	Buddhism - Theravada	8,233
Thai	Thailand	Southeast Asian Peoples	Buddhism - Theravada	11,772
Garifuna	Guatemala	Latin-Caribbean Americans	Christianity	200,000
Bahamian	Bahamas	North American Peoples	Christianity	1,700
Trinidadian	Trinidad and Tobago	North American Peoples	Christianity	101,482
Panamanian	Panama	Latin-Caribbean Americans	Christianity	21,163
Jamaican	Jamaica	North American Peoples	Christianity	206,147
Haitian	Haiti	Latin-Caribbean Americans	Christianity	123,832
Guyanese	Guyana	North American Peoples	Christianity	145,339
Uruguayan	Uruguay	Latin-Caribbean Americans	Christianity	4,908
Congolese	Congo	Sub-Saharan African	Christianity	3,200
Danes	Denmark	Eurasian Peoples	Christianity	1,560
Motilon, Bari	Colombia	Latin-Caribbean Americans	Christianity	1,000
Detribalized Amerindian	United States	Latin-Caribbean Americans	Christianity	111,749
Micmac	United States	North American Peoples	Christianity	300
Botswanan, Tswana	Botswana	Sub-Saharan African	Christianity - Independent	1,200
German	Germany	Eurasian Peoples	Christianity - Orthodox	39,627
Greek	Greece	Eurasian Peoples	Christianity - Orthodox	65,863
Russian	Russia	Eurasian Peoples	Christianity - Orthodox	100,000
Armenian	Armenia	Eurasian Peoples	Christianity - Orthodox	5,716

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Walking Around (New York City's Ethnic Neighborhoods) - a guide and list for those who enjoy exploring the worlds and different ethnic groups that are within New York.

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