Vietnamese Americans
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| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 2,162,610[1] 0.7% of the total U.S. population (2018) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Languages | |
| Vietnamese, American English Chinese, French (older generations) | |
| Religion | |
| Buddhist (43%) • Catholic (30%) Unaffiliated (20%) • Protestant (6%)[3][4] | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Vietnamese people, Overseas Vietnamese, Vietnamese Canadians, Vietnamese Australians, Asian Americans, Chinese Americans, Hmong Americans |
Vietnamese Americans (Vietnamese: Người Mỹ gốc Việt) are Americans who have ancestors who were originally Vietnamese.[5] They make up about half of all overseas Vietnamese (Vietnamese: Người Việt hải ngoại) and are the fourth-largest Asian American ethnic group after Chinese Americans, Filipino Americans, and Indian Americans. There are 2.2 million people of Vietnamese descent residing in the U.S.
The Vietnamese community in the United States was very small until the South Vietnamese immigration to the country after the Vietnam War which ended in 1975. Early immigrants were refugee