Pacific Islander Americans

People of Pacific Islander descent in the United States

Not to be confused with Oceanian Americans.

Ethnic group

Pacific Islander Americans

Total population
Alone (one race)
689,966 (2020 census)[1]
0.21% of the total US population

In combination (multiracial)
896,497 (2020 census)[1]
0.27% of the total US population

Alone or in combination
1,586,463 (2020 census)[1]
0.48% of the total US population
Regions with significant populations
Predominantly in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands
Hawaii| 157,445[1]
California| 157,263[1]
Washington| 64,933[1]
Utah| 36,930[1]
Texas| 33,611[1]
Languages
American English, Oceanic languages
Religion
Christianity, Polytheism, Baháʼí, Judaism, Mormonism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Sikhism, Jainism, Confucianism
Related ethnic groups
Pasifika New Zealanders, other Pacific Islanders

Pacific Islander Americans (also colloquially referred to as Islander Americans) are Americans who are of Pacific Islander ancestry (or are descendants of the Indigenous peoples of Oceania). For its purposes, the United States census also counts Indigenous Australians as part of this group.[2][3]

Pacific Islander Americans make up 0.5% of the US population including those with partial Pacific Islander ancestry, enumerating about 1.4 million people. The largest ethnic subgroups of Pacific Islander Americans are Native Hawaiians, Samoans, and Chamorros. Much of the Pacific Islander population resides in Hawaii, Alaska, California, Utah, and Texas.

Pacific Islanders may be considered Oceanian Americans, but this group may include Australians and New Zealander-origin people, who can be of non-Pacific Islander ethnicity. Many Pacific Islander Americans are mixed with other races, especially Europeans and Asians, due to Pacific Islanders being a small population in several communities across the mainland US.

American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands are insular areas (US territories), while Hawaii is a state.

## History

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### First stage: Hawaiian migration (18th-19th centuries)

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Gabriel Franchère's 1813 sketch of Fort Astoria

Migration from Oceania to the United States began in the last decade of the 18th century, but the first migrants to arrive in the country were Native Hawaiians. People from other Oceanian backgrounds (except Australians and Māori) did not migrate to the United States until the late 19th century. The first Native Hawaiians to live in the present-day US were fur traders. They were hired by British fur traders in Hawaii and taken to the Northwestern US, from where trade networks developed with Honolulu. However, they charged less than Americans for doing the same jobs and returned to Hawaii when their contracts ended. The first Native Hawaiians to live permanently in the US settled in the Astoria colony (in present-day Oregon) in 1811, having been brought there by its founder, fur merchant John Jacob Astor. Astor created the Pacific Fur Company in the colony and used the Native Hawaiians to build the city's infrastructure and houses and to develop the primary sector (agriculture, hunting and fishing). The labor employment of the Native Hawaiians was done to make them serve the company (although later, most of them worked for North West Company when this company absorbed the Pacific Fur Company in 1813).

After 1813, Native Hawaiians continued to migrate to the Pacific Northwest. They migrated to work in companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company (which absorbed the North West Company in 1821) and the Columbia Fishing and Trading Company, as well as in Christian missions.[4] Since 1819, some groups of Polynesian Protestant students immigrated to the United States to study theology.[5] Since the 1830s, another group of Native Hawaiians arrived on California's shores,[5][4] where they were traders and formed communities. So, they made up 10% of the population of Yerba Buena, now San Francisco, in 1847. During the California gold rush, many other Native Hawaiians migrated to California to work as miners.[4]

In 1889, the first Polynesian Mormon colony was founded in Utah and consisted of Native Hawaiians, Tahitians, Samoans, and Māori.[5] Also in the late 19th century, small groups of Pacific Islanders, usually sailors, moved to the western shores, mainly on San Francisco.[6] Later, the US occupied Hawaii in 1896, Guam in 1898, and American Samoa in 1900.[7] This fact diversified Oceanian emigration in the US.

### Second stage (20th-21st centuries)

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However, the first record of non-Hawaiian Pacific Islanders in the US is from 1910,[4] with the first Guamanians living in the US. In the following decades small groups of people from islands such as Hawaii, Guam,[6] Tonga, or American Samoa immigrated to the US. Many of them were Mormons (including most of Tongans and American Samoans),[8][9] who immigrated to help build Mormon churches,[8] or to seek an education, either in Laie[9] or Salt Lake City.[10] However, the immigration of Pacific Islanders to the US was small until the end of World War II,[4] when many American Samoans,[11] Guamanians (who got the American citizenship in 1929),[9] and Tongans immigrated to the US. Most of them were in the military or married with military people,[6] but some Pacific Islanders, particularly Tongans, looked for a job in several religious and cultural centers. Since then the immigration increased and diversified every decade, with a majority immigrating to the Western urban areas and Hawaii.[4]

This increase and diversification in the Oceanian emigration was especially true in the 1950s. In 1950, the population of Guam gained full American citizenship.[8] In 1952, the natives of American Samoa become American nationals, although not American citizens, through the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952.[12] Shortly thereafter, the first major waves of migration from American Samoa[13][11] and Guam[14] emerged, while other groups of places such as French Polynesia, Palau, or Fiji began to emigrate. Over 5,100 Pacific Islanders immigrated to the United States in the 1950s, mostly from American Samoa, Guam, and Tonga.[15] The first of them were Samoan military personnel, who had worked at the American bases of Pago Pago but moved to the Honolulu's American bases when American Samoa began to be administered by the US Department of the Interior, as well as their relatives.[16][8] Most of the new Pacific Islander immigrants were Mormons[15] and many islanders from the region immigrated to the US seeking economic opportunities.

In 1959, Hawaii became a state[17] and its natives got US citizenship. This made more than 630,000 people Americans;[18] many of them were Pacific Islanders, both Native Hawaiians and people of other Oceanian origins. Thus, the Hawaiian migration to the continental US began to increase. In the 1960s, many more Pacific Islanders emigrated to the US, mainly due to increased migration from Guam,[19] Fiji, Tonga,[10][20] and Samoa archipelago (both independent and American Samoa[9]).[21] The Pacific Islanders migrated by diverse reasons: Many Guamanians fled the Korean War and Typhoon Karen,[19] and the Fijian population living in the US skyrocketed from a few dozen people in the 1950s to more than 400 people. The Pacific Islander migration increased especially since 1965,[10][9][20] when the United States government facilitated the non-European migration to the US.[10] Many of them were recruited to pick fruit in California.[19]

During the 1970s, over nine thousand Pacific Islanders migrated to the US, mostly from Samoa[13] (both Western and American[22]), Guam, Tonga, and Fiji, but also from other islands such as Federated States of Micronesia or Palau. Many of these people immigrated to the US to study at its universities.[23] Moreover, in the 1980s, migration from the Pacific Islands to the United States became more diversified when this country acquired the Northern Marianas Islands in 1986[24] and signed an agreement with TTPI (FSM, Palau and the Marshall Islands) called the Compact of Free Association. The Compact of Free Association allows the inhabitants from TTPI to travel and work in the US without visas.[note 1] On the other hand, the Tyson Foods company, which employed a significant part of the population of the Marshall Islands, relocated many of its Marshellese employees in Springdale, Arkansas, where the company is based.[25] However, most of Pacific Islanders continued to migrate to western urban areas and Hawaii.[4] More of five thousand Pacific Islanders migrated to the US in the 1990s, settling mostly in western cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, or Salt Lake City.[4] In the 2000 US census, almost all the countries of Oceania were mentioned, although only the ethnic groups mentioned in the article consisted of thousands of people.[26] In the 2000s and 2010s, several thousands more Pacific Islanders immigrated to the US.

## Population

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Utah Pasifika Festival

### Demography

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In the 2000 and 2010 censuses, the term "Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander" refers to people having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand, and the Marshalls or other Pacific Islands. Most Pacific Islander Americans are of Native Hawaiian, Samoan, and Chamorro origin.

The fact that Hawaii is a US state (meaning that almost the entire native Hawaiian population lives in the US), as well as the migration and high birth rate of the Pacific Islanders have favored the permanence and increase of this population in the US (especially in the number of people who are of partial Pacific Islander descent). In the 2000 census, over 800,000 people claimed to be of Pacific Islander descent and in the 2010 census 1,225,195 Americans claimed "'Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander'" as their race alone or in combination. Most of them live in urban areas of Hawaii and California, but they also have sizeable populations in Washington, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Florida, Arizona, and New York. On the other hand, Pacific Islander Americans represent the majority (or are the main ethnic group) in American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands, from where many of them are natives.

### Areas of origin

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#### Melanesian Americans

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Melanesian Americans are Americans of Melanesian descent.

Most of them are of Fijian descent. Most Fijian Americans are of Fijian and Indian descent. More than 32,000 people of Fijian origin live in the US. Most of them live in California.

Smaller communities of New Caledonian, Papuan, Vanuatuan, and Solomon Islander origin also live in the US.

#### Micronesian Americans

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Micronesian Americans are Americans of Micronesian descent. They come from the whole region, mainly from the Mariana Islands, but also from territories as the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia or Palau.

There are more than 8,000 people living in the US whose origins are in the Federated States of Micronesia. Most of them live in Hawaii, California, Oregon, and Texas, as well as in Mariana Islands. Another 7,000 Americans are of Palauan descent.

According to the 2010 census, the largest Chamorro populations were located in California, Washington, and Texas, but their combined number from these three states totaled less than half the number living throughout the US. It also revealed that the Chamorro people are the most geographically dispersed Oceanian ethnicity in the country.[27]

Marshallese Americans come from the Marshall Islands. In the 2010 census, 22,434 Americans identified as being of Marshallese descent. Due to the Marshall Islands entering the Compact of Free Association in 1986, Marshallese have been allowed to migrate and work in the US. There are many reasons why Marshallese came to the US. Some Marshallese came for educational opportunities, particularly for their children. Others sought work or better health care than what is available in the islands. Massive layoffs by the Marshallese government in 2000 led to a second big wave of immigration. Arkansas has the largest Marshallese population with over 6,000 residents. Many live in Springdale, and the Marshallese constitute over 5% of the city's population. Other significant Marshallese populations include Spokane and Costa Mesa.

Smaller communities of I-Kiribati and Nauruan origins also live in the US.

#### Polynesian Americans

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Polynesian Americans are Americans of Polynesian descent.

Large subcategories of Polynesian Americans include Native Hawaiians and Samoan Americans. In addition there are smaller communities of Tongan Americans, French Polynesian Americans, and Māori Americans.

There is a notable Native Hawaiian presence in Las Vegas. The city is sometimes called the "Ninth Island" in reference to the eight islands of Hawaii.[28][29][30]

A Samoan American is an American who is of ethnic Samoan descent from either the independent nation Samoa or the American territory of American Samoa. Samoan American is a subcategory of Polynesian American. About 55,000 people live on American Samoa, while the 2000 and 2008 US censuses have found four times the number of Samoan Americans live in the mainland US. California has the most Samoans; concentrations live in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles County, and San Diego County. San Francisco has approximately 2,000 people of Samoan ancestry, and other Bay Area cities such as East Palo Alto and Daly City have Samoan communities. In Los Angeles County, Long Beach and Carson have abundant Samoan communities, as well as in Oceanside in San Diego County.[31][32][33] Other West Coast metropolitan areas such as Seattle have strong Samoan communities, mainly in King County and in Tacoma. Anchorage, Alaska, and Honolulu, Hawaii, both have thousands of Samoan Americans residing in each city. Persons born in American Samoa are US nationals, but not US citizens (this is the only circumstance under which an individual would be one and not the other).[12] For this reason, Samoans can move to Hawaii or the mainland US and obtain citizenship comparatively easily. Like Native Hawaiians, Samoans arrived in the mainland in the 20th century as agricultural laborers and factory workers. Elsewhere in the US, Samoan Americans are plentiful throughout the state of Utah, as well as in Killeen, Texas; Norfolk, Virginia; and Independence, Missouri.

A Tongan American is an American who is of ethnic Tongan descent. Utah has the largest Tongan American population, followed by Hawaii. Many of the first Tongan Americans came to the United States in connection to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They have strong presence in parts of Salt Lake Valley in Utah, especially West Valley City and Salt Lake City. Utah is roughly one percent Tongan, a high rate compared to Tongans only making up less than a scant 0.02% of the US population. Tongan communities are also more common in the West Coast, such as San Mateo County, some areas of the South Bay of Los Angeles, and the Seattle-Tacoma metropolitan area of Washington. Portland, Oregon is also home to a Tongan community that started to emigrate in the 1970s. The Dallas, Texas suburb of Euless also has a Tongan population in the low thousands.

### Origins (alone or in any combination)

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Pacific Islander Americans in the 2020[34] United States censuses  Ancestry | Flag | 2020

|
|

Numbers | %
Native Hawaiian |  | 680,442 |
Samoan |  | 296,997 |
"Pacific Islander" (not specified)  |  | 261,391 |
Chamorro |  | 147,947
(Guamanian or Chamorro: 143,947
Saipanese: 1,143
Northern Mariana Islander: 553)  |
Tongan |  | 78,871 |
Fijian |  | 54,383
("Fijians": 54,006
Rotumans: 377)  |
Marshallese |  | 52,624 |
"Micronesian" (not specified)  |  | 45,364 |
Micronesian (FSM) |  | 21,596
(Chuukese: 12,464
Pohnpeian: 4,918
Kosraean: 2,148
Yapese: 2,066)  |
Palauan |  | 12,202 |
Polynesians with New Zealand citizenship
(Māori, Tokelauans, Niueans, Cook Islanders)  |  | 9,985
(Māori: 7,664
Tokelauans: 1,207
Niueans: 569
Cook Islanders: 545)  |
"Polynesian" (not specified)  |  | 9,092 |
French Polynesian |  | 8,689
("Tahitian": 7,935
"French Polynesian": 754)  |
Papua New Guinean |  | 1,453 |
"Melanesian" (not especified)  |  | 937 |
I-Kiribati |  | 831 |
Tuvaluan |  | 399 |
New Caledonian (Fr)  |  | 265 |
Ni-Vanuatu |  | 262 |
Solomonese |  | 220 |
Total Pacific Islander American population  |  | 1,586,463 | 100.0%

### Location

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State/territory | Pacific Islander
Americans alone or in combination
(2010 US census)[35] | Percentage
(Pacific Islander)
| Pacific Islander Americans
alone or in combination
(2020 US census)[36] | Percentage
(Pacific Islander)
[note 2]

|
|
|
|

Alabama | 7,984 |  | 7,479 | 0.1%
Alaska | 11,360 |  | 18,668 | 2.5%
American Samoa | 52,790[37] |  | 46,233[38]
(44,090 alone) | 93.0%
(88.7%)
Arizona | 28,431 |  | 37,212 | 0.5%
Arkansas | 8,597 |  | 17,874 | 0.6%
California | 320,036 |  | 337,617 | 0.9%
Colorado | 16,823 |  | 24,714 | 0.4%
Connecticut | 6,864 |  | 5,971 | 0.2%
Delaware | 1,423 |  | 1,547 | 0.2%
District of Columbia | 1,514 |  | 1,494 | 0.2%
Florida | 43,416 |  | 44,454 | 0.2%
Georgia | 18,587 |  | 19,020 | 0.2%
Guam | 90,238 [39] | 56.6% | 83,359 | 49,3%
Hawaii | 358,951 |  | 394,102 | 27.1%
Idaho | 5,508 |  | 9,293 | 0.5%
Illinois | 15,873 |  | 16,842 | 0.1%
Indiana | 7,392 |  | 12,015 | 0.2%
Iowa | 4,173 |  | 10,073 | 0.3%
Kansas | 5,445 |  | 7,890 | 0.3%
Kentucky | 5,698 |  | 8,449 | 0.2%
Louisiana | 5,333 |  | 6,100 | 0.1%
Maine | 1,008 |  | 1,619 | 0.1%
Maryland | 11,553 |  | 11,440 | 0.2%
Massachusetts | 12,369 |  | 10,436 | 0.1%
Michigan | 10,010 |  | 11,255 | 0.1%
Minnesota | 6,819 |  | 9,387 | 0.2%
Mississippi | 3,228 |  | 3,235 | 0.1%
Missouri | 12,136 |  | 17,870 | 0.3%
Montana | 1,794 |  | 3,101 | 0.3%
Nebraska | 3,551 |  | 4,069 | 0.2%
Nevada | 35,435 |  | 52,532 | 1.7%
New Hampshire | 1,236 |  | 1,792 | 0.1%
New Jersey | 15,777 |  | 14,621 | 0.2%
New Mexico | 5,750 |  | 6,012 | 0.3%
New York | 45,801 |  | 40,578 | 0.2%
North Carolina | 17,891 |  | 20,957 | 0.2%
North Dakota | 801 |  | 2,086 | 0.3%
Northern Mariana Islands | 24,891 [40] | 46.2% | 19,421 | 34.9%
Ohio | 11,380 |  | 15,181 | 0.1%
Oklahoma | 9,052 |  | 15,026 | 0.4%
Oregon | 26,936 |  | 39,709 | 0.9%
Pennsylvania | 14,662 |  | 16,532 | 0.1%
Puerto Rico | 370 [41][42] |  | 4,169 | 0.1%
Rhode Island | 2,803 |  | 2,331 | 0.2%
South Carolina | 6,988 |  | 8,737 | 0.2%
South Dakota | 1,040 |  | 1,642 | 0.2%
Tennessee | 9,359 |  | 11,008 | 0.2%
Texas | 54,801 |  | 77,196 | 0.3%
Utah | 37,994 |  | 59,247 | 1.8%
Vermont | 476 |  | 0,725 | 0.1%
Virgin Islands (US) | 212[43] |  |  |
Virginia | 17,233 |  | 22,226 | 0.3%
Washington | 73,213 |  | 114,189 | 1.5%
West Virginia | 1,295 |  | 1,726 | 0.1%
Wisconsin | 5,558 |  | 7,470 | 0.1%
Wyoming | 1,137 |  | 1,714 | 0.3%
United States | 1,332,494 | 0.4% | 1,586,463 | 0.5%

## Military

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Based on 2003 recruiting data, Pacific Islander Americans were 249% over-represented in the military.[44]

American Samoans are distinguished among the wider Pacific Islander group for enthusiasm for enlistment. In 2007, a Chicago Tribune reporter covering the island's military service noted, "American Samoa is one of the few places in the nation where military recruiters not only meet their enlistment quotas but soundly exceed them."[45] As of March 23, 2009[update], there have been 10 American Samoans who have died in Iraq, and 2 who have died in Afghanistan.[46]

Pacific Islander Americans are also represented in the United States Navy SEALs, making up .6% of the enlisted and .1% of the officers.[47]

## Notes

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1. ^ The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI) was a United Nations territory administrated by United States since 1944 until 1986/94 (depending on the country), although it did not belong to the US.
2. ^ Percentage of the state population that identifies itself as Pacific Islanders relative to the state/territory population as a whole — the percentage is of Pacific Islander Americans alone.

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## External links

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* The Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander Population: 2010 Census
* Infoplease: Native Hawaiian and Other US Pacific Islander Population, Census 2000 - 2010
* Pacific Islander Populations, Census 2000

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* Ahmadiyyas
* Five Percenters
* Moorish Scientists
* Nation of Islam
* Value Creators
* Native American
* Neopagans
* Non-religious
* Rastafaris
* Scientologists
* Sikhs
* Zoroastrians

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Ancestry and ethnicity in the United States

General/miscellaneous ethno-racial classifications

| General groups|

* African Americans
* Asian Americans
* Native Americans
* Alaska Natives
* Pacific Islanders
* Native Hawaiians
* White/European Americans
* Non-Hispanic Whites
* Appalachians

|

Hispanic/Latino|

* Asian Latino
* Punjabi Mexicans
* Black Latino
* Blaxican
* Mestizo
* Puerto Ricans
* Stateside Puerto Ricans
* White Latino

Multiracial|

* Afro-Asian
* Amerasian
* Black Indians
* Blaxican
* Cajuns
* Creoles
* Hapa
* Melungeon
* Mestizo
* Mulatto
* Punjabi Mexicans

Aboriginal/Indigenous/Native Americans

| Alaskan|

* Aleutians
* Alutiiq
* Athabaskans
* Gwichʼin
* Haida
* Iñupiat
* Tsimshian
* Tlingit
* Yupik

|

Californian|

* Cahuilla
* Chemehuevi
* Chumash
* Cupeño
* Diegueño
* Esselen
* Juaneño
* Kitanemuk
* Luiseño
* Miwok
* Patwin
* Pomo
* Salinan
* Serrano
* Suisunes
* Ohlone
* Awaswas
* Chalon
* Chochenyo
* Karkin
* Tamyen
* Tataviam
* Tongva
* Wappo
* Wintun
* Yokuts

Iroquois|

* Cayuga
* Mohawk
* Oneida
* Onondaga
* Seneca
* Tuscarora

Miscellaneous|

* Abenaki
* Apache
* Blackfeet
* Cherokee
* Cheyenne
* Chickasaw
* Choctaw
* Colville
* Comanche
* Cree
* Crow
* Houma
* Kiowa
* Lenape
* Menominee
* Mohave
* Muscogee
* Navajo
* Ojibwe
* Osage
* Odawa
* Paiute
* Pawnee
* Pima
* Potawatomi
* Puebloans
* Zia
* Zuni
* Quechan
* Salish
* Seminole
* Shawnee
* Shoshone
* Sioux
* Tohono Oʼodham
* Ute
* Yakama
* Yaqui

The Americas (by region and country)

| Caribbean|

* Anglo-Caribbean
* Antiguan
* Bahamian
* Barbadian
* Bermudian
* Dominican (Commonwealth)
* Grenadian
* Jamaican
* Kittian
* St. Lucian
* Trinidadian
* Vincentian
* Virgin Islanders
* Dutch Caribbean
* Indo-Caribbean
* Latin Caribbean
* Cuban
* Dominican Republic
* Haitian
* Puerto Ricans

|

North America|

* Belizean
* Canadian
* French-Canadian
* Greenlandic
* Latin North/Central American
* Costa Rican
* Guatemalan
* Honduran
* Garifuna
* Mexican
* Indigenous Mexican
* Nicaraguan
* Panamanian
* Salvadoran

South America|

* Guyanese
* Latin South American
* Argentine
* Bolivian
* Brazilian
* Chilean
* Colombian
* Ecuadorian
* Paraguayan
* Peruvian
* Uruguayan
* Venezuelan
* Surinamese

Sub-Saharan Africa

| General/misc.|

* Black African diaspora
* African Americans
* Afro-Caribbeans
* Afro-Latinos
* Recent African immigrants

|

Central Africa|

* Cameroonian
* Congolese
* Equatoguinean
* Gabonese

East Africa|

* Eritrean
* Ethiopian
* Kenyan
* Somali
* South Sudanese
* Tanzanian
* Ugandan

Southern Africa|

* Angolan
* Malawian
* South African
* Afrikaners
* Zimbabwean

West Africa|

* Beninese
* Bissau-Guinean
* Cape Verdean
* Fula
* Gambian
* Ghanaian
* Guinean
* Ivorian
* Liberian
* Malian
* Mauritanian
* Nigerian
* Igbo
* Yoruba
* Senegalese
* Sierra Leonean
* Togolese

Asia

| General/misc.|

* Asian Americans
* Asian Latinos

|

Central Asia|

* Afghan
* Pashtun
* Kazakh
* Kyrgyz
* Tajik
* Turkmen
* Uzbek

East Asia|

* Chinese
* Fuzhounese
* Hakka
* Hoklo
* Hong Kong
* Taiwanese
* Tibetan
* Uyghur
* Japanese
* Ryukyuan
* Korean
* Mongolian

South Asia|

* Bangladeshi
* Bengali
* Bhutanese
* Indian
* Bengali
* Gujarati
* Malayali
* Punjabi
* Sindhi
* Tamil
* Telugu
* Indo-Caribbean
* Maldivian
* Nepalese
* Pakistani
* Balochi
* Pashtun
* Punjabi
* Sindhi
* Sri Lankan
* Tamil

Southeast Asia|

* Burmese
* Karen
* Cambodian
* Filipino
* Hmong–Mien
* Hmong
* Iu Mien
* Indonesian
* Laotian
* Malaysian
* Singaporean
* Thai
* Vietnamese

Europe

| General/misc.|

* White/European Americans
* Non-Hispanic Whites
* White Hispanic/Latino
* Jewish
* Romani
* Bashalde

|

British Isles|

* British
* Cornish
* English
* Manx
* Scottish
* Welsh
* Irish
* Scotch-Irish

Central Europe|

* Austrian
* Czech
* German
* Frisian
* Sorbian
* Liechtensteiner
* Hungarian
* Polish
* Kashubian
* Silesian
* Rusyn
* Slovak
* Swiss

Eastern Europe|

* Baltic
* Estonian
* Latvian
* Lithuanian
* Belarusian
* Russian
* Chechen
* Circassian
* Cossack
* Kalmyk
* Ukrainian
* Cossack

Northern Europe|

* Danish
* Faroese
* Greenlandic
* Finnish
* Icelandic
* Norwegian
* Sámi
* Swedish

Southern Europe|

* Iberian
* Portuguese
* Spanish
* Asturian
* Basque
* Canarian
* Catalan
* Galician
* Italian
* Sicilian
* Maltese
* Sammarinese

Southeast Europe|

* Albanian
* Armenian
* Azerbaijani
* Bulgarian
* Cypriot
* Georgian
* Greek
* Moldovan
* Romanian
* Turkish
* Yugoslav
* Bosnian
* Croatian
* Macedonian
* Montenegrin
* Serbian
* Slovenian

Western Europe|

* Belgian
* Flemish
* Dutch
* Afrikaners
* French
* Basque
* Breton
* Corsican
* Luxembourgish

Middle East and North Africa

| Multinational|

* Arab
* Assyrian
* Berber
* Circassian
* Jewish
* Kurdish

|

North Africa|

* Algerian
* Egyptian
* Coptic
* Libyan
* Moroccan
* Sudanese
* Tunisian

West Asia|

* Armenian
* Azerbaijani
* Bahraini
* Cypriot
* Emirati
* Georgian
* Iranian
* Balochi
* Iraqi
* Israeli
* Jordanian
* Kuwaiti
* Lebanese
* Omani
* Palestinian
* Qatari
* Saudi
* Syrian
* Syrian-Jewish
* Turkish
* Yemeni

Oceania (Pacific Islands)

| Australasia|

* Australian
* New Zealander
* Maori

|

Melanesia|

* Fijian
* Papuan

Micronesia|

* Chamorro
* Marshallese
* Micronesian (Federation)
* Palauan

Polynesia|

* French Polynesian
* Hawaiian
* Maori
* Samoan
* Tongan

Related subjects

* People of the United States / Americans
* American ancestry
* Native American ancestry
* Maps of American ancestries
* 2010 census
* Race and ethnicity in the census
* Race and ethnicity in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
* Racism

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Oceanian Americans

Melanesians|

* Fijian

Micronesians|

* Chamorros
* Marshallese
* Micronesian
* Palauan

Polynesians|

* French Polynesian
* Māori
* Native Hawaiians
* Samoan
* Tongan

Euro-Oceanians|

* Australian
* New Zealander

* v
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* e

Pacific Islander Americans

Melanesians|

* Fijian

Micronesians|

* Chamorros
* Marshallese
* Micronesian
* Palauan

Polynesians|

* French Polynesian
* Māori
* Native Hawaiians
* Samoan
* Tongan

Related ethnic groups|

* Australian
* New Zealander

Related topics|

* Oceanian Americans
* Pacific Islanders
* Asian Pacific Americans

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United States state-related lists

List of states and territories of the United States

Demographics|

* Population
* African American
* Amish
* Asian
* birth and death rates
* density
* Hispanic and Latino
* historical
* household income
* immigration
* LGBT
* non-Hispanic white
* Pacific Islander
* Spanish-speaking
* Educational attainment
* Largest cities by population
* Median age
* Most popular given names
* Most populous counties
* Net migration
* Populated places
* Population density (cities)
* Race/ethnicity
* Religiosity
* irreligion

Economy|

* Billionaires
* Budgets
* Companies
* Credit ratings
* Employment rates
* Exports and imports
* Federal tax revenue
* Federal taxation and spending
* Gross domestic product
* growth rate
* per capita
* Income
* inequality
* Median home prices
* Median wages
* Millionaire households
* Minimum wages
* Poverty rates
* R&D spending
* Sales taxes
* Savings rate
* Socioeconomic factors
* Sovereign wealth funds
* State income taxes
* Unemployment rates
* Union affiliation
* Vehicles per capita

Environment|

* Botanical gardens
* Carbon dioxide emissions
* Parks
* National Natural Landmarks
* National Wildlife Refuges
* Nature centers
* Electricity (Renewable)
* Superfund sites
* Wilderness areas

Geography|

* Area
* Bays
* Beaches
* Coastline
* Elevation
* Extreme points
* Forest
* Geographic centers
* Highest cities
* Islands
* Lakes
* Mountains
* Regions
* Volcanoes

Government|

* Agriculture commissioners
* Attorneys general
* Capitals
* Capitol buildings
* Comparison
* Congressional districts
* members
* Counties
* alphabetical
* list
* Courts
* Governors
* lieutenant governors
* Legislatures
* Libraries and archives
* Official languages
* Poets laureate
* Politics by state or territory
* political party strength
* State auditors
* State legislators
* Alabama–Missouri
* Montana–Wyoming
* state senators
* State secretaries of state
* State speakers
* State chief justices
* State presidents pro tempore
* State superintendents of education
* State supreme courts
* State treasurers
* Statewide elected executive officials

Health|

* Changes in life expectancy, 1985–2010
* Fertility rates
* Hospitals
* Human Development Index
* American Human Development Index
* Life expectancy
* Infant mortality rates
* Obesity rates
* Road deaths
* Smoking

History|

* Date of statehood
* Name etymologies
* Historical societies
* Museums
* National Historic Landmarks
* National Register of Historic Places
* State partitions
* Historic regions

Law|

* Abortion
* Age of consent
* Alcohol
* dry communities
* Alford plea
* Cell phone use while driving
* Constitutions
* Firearms
* firearms death rates
* gun violence
* Homicide rate
* Incest
* Law enforcement agencies
* Legality of cannabis
* Marriage
* cousin
* polygamy
* same sex
* Peace Index
* Prisons
* incarceration rate
* Seat belt laws
* Self-representation
* Smoking bans
* Speed limits (by jurisdiction)
* Statutory codes
* Violent crime rate

Miscellaneous|

* Abbreviations
* Airports
* Bus transit systems
* Casinos
* Cemeteries
* Demonyms
* Flags
* Hotels
* Insignia
* coats of arms
* License plates
* Malls
* Mottos
* Newspapers
* Nicknames
* Numbered highways
* Quarters
* 50 states
* District of Columbia and territories
* America the Beautiful quarters
* Snowiest places
* Symbols
* Tallest buildings
* Temperature extremes
* Time zones

* Category
* Commons
* Portals

Authority control databases

International|

* FAST

National|

* United States
* France
* BnF data
* Israel

Other|

* Yale LUX

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