Danish Americans - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Total population | |
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1,284,171[1] 0.4% of the U.S. population (2017) | |
Regions with significant populations | |
California, Utah, Iowa, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Minnesota and Illinois | |
Languages | |
English, Danish | |
Religion | |
Christianity (predominantly Lutheran; also other Protestant churches, Catholicism and Mormonism) | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Danes, Greenlanders, Greenlandic Americans, Danish Canadians, Danish Australians, Scandinavian Americans, Norwegian Americans, European Americans |
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Danish Americans (Danish: Dansk-amerikanere) are Americans who have ancestral roots originated fully or partially from Denmark. There are approximately 1,300,000 Americans of Danish origin or descent.[2][3]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "American FactFinder - Search". Factfinder.census.gov. Archived from the original on 19 October 2016. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
- ↑ Bureau, U. S. Census. "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2019-11-09.
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has generic name (help) - ↑ John Mark Nielsen, and Peter L. Petersen. "Danish Americans." in Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, edited by Thomas Riggs, (3rd ed., vol. 2, Gale, 2014), pp. 1-14. online.