Asian-Americans in Maryland are residents of the state of
Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...
who are of
Asian
Asian may refer to:
* Items from or related to the continent of Asia:
** Asian people, people in or descending from Asia
** Asian culture, the culture of the people from Asia
** Asian cuisine, food based on the style of food of the people from Asi ...
ancestry. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, Asian-Americans were 6.1% of the state's population. The ten largest Asian-American populations in Maryland are
Indians,
Chinese
Chinese can refer to:
* Something related to China
* Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
**''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation
** List of ethnic groups in China, people of ...
,
Koreans
Koreans ( South Korean: , , North Korean: , ; see names of Korea) are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Korean Peninsula.
Koreans mainly live in the two Korean nation states: North Korea and South Korea (collectively and simply re ...
,
Filipinos
Filipinos ( tl, Mga Pilipino) are the people who are citizens of or native to the Philippines. The majority of Filipinos today come from various Austronesian ethnolinguistic groups, all typically speaking either Filipino, English and/or othe ...
,
Vietnamese
Vietnamese may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to Vietnam, a country in Southeast Asia
** A citizen of Vietnam. See Demographics of Vietnam.
* Vietnamese people, or Kinh people, a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Vietnam
** Overse ...
,
Pakistanis,
Japanese
Japanese may refer to:
* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
** Japanese diaspor ...
,
Taiwanese
Taiwanese may refer to:
* Taiwanese language, another name for Taiwanese Hokkien
* Something from or related to Taiwan ( Formosa)
* Taiwanese aborigines, the indigenous people of Taiwan
* Han Taiwanese, the Han people of Taiwan
* Taiwanese people, ...
,
Thai, and
Burmese. There are smaller numbers of
Bangladeshis
Bangladeshis ( bn, বাংলাদেশী ) are the citizens of Bangladesh, a South Asian country centered on the transnational historical region of Bengal along the eponymous bay.
Bangladeshi citizenship was formed in 1971, when the ...
,
Nepalis
Nepalis (English: Nepalese ; ne, नेपाली) are the citizens of Nepal under the provisions of Nepali nationality law. The country is home to people of many different national origins who are the descendants of immigrants from India, ...
,
Cambodians
The Khmer people ( km, ជនជាតិខ្មែរ, ) are a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Cambodia. They comprise over 90% of Cambodia's population of 17 million. , and
Sri Lankans.
See also
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Chinatown, Baltimore
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Filipino Cultural Association
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Greater Washington Area Asian-American demographics
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History of Koreans in Baltimore
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Koreans in Washington, D.C.
There is a Korean American community in the states of Virginia and Maryland in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. It is the third-largest ethnic Korean community in the United States.
In 1949, the Embassy of South Korea opened in Washington, ...
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Kunzang Palyul Choling
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Metro Chinese Network
Metro Chinese Network is a Rockville, Maryland-based Chinese-language TV station. It occupied DTV channel 30.3 in Greater Washington, DC area. Their content comes from Chinese Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), ...
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Murugan Temple of North America
The Murugan Temple of North America is the first temple in the United States that is dedicated to the Hindu deity Murugan. The temple is located in Lanham, Maryland, about from Washington, D.C. Conceived in the 1980s and opened in 1999, the t ...
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Sri Siva Vishnu Temple
Sri Siva Vishnu Temple (SSVT) is a Hindu temple located in Lanham, Maryland, right outside of Washington D.C. It is one of the largest temples in the United States.
Location
The Temple is located on Cipriano Road one mile away from the NASA Go ...
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Washington Bangla Radio on Internet
Washington Bangla Radio on Internet (WBRi) is an online streaming Bengali language radio station and associated news and entertainment web portal that operated from Washington, DC metro area in the United States. The free service was provided until ...
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Washington Metropolitan Association of Chinese Schools
References
External links
ASHA for Women (Asian Women’s Self Help Association)Asian American Center of FrederickAsian American Retailers' Association of MarylandAsian American Youth Leadership Empowerment and DevelopmentAssociation of Vietnamese AmericansBaltimore Bhutanese CommitteeGovernor's Commission on Asian Pacific American AffairsGujarati Samaj of BaltimoreThai Alliance in America (TAA)
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