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বাঙালি আমেরিকানরা | |
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 The language spread of Bengali in the United States according to U. S. Census 2000 | |
| Total population | |
| 375,143 [1] (0.12% of U.S. population) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| New York City, Washington DC, Los Angeles,[2] SF Bay Area, Detroit | |
| Languages | |
| English, Bengali | |
| Religion | |
Majority: Islam[3]Minority:  Hinduism,  Buddhism,  Christianity[4] and others (including atheism, agnosticism and unaffiliated)[5] | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Bangladeshi Americans, Indian Americans |
Bengali Americans (Bengali: মার্কিন বাঙ্গালী) are Americans of Bengali ethnic, cultural and linguistic heritage and identity. They trace their ancestry to the historic ethnolinguistic region of Bengal region in the Indian subcontinent, now divided in South Asia between Bangladesh and West Bengal of India. Bengali Americans are also a subgroup of modern-day Bangladeshi Americans and Indian Americans. Bengali also classified under Bangladeshi Americans.[6] Significant immigration of bengalis to the United States started after 1965.
Bengali Americans may refer to:
- Bangladeshi Americans, Americans of Bangladeshi descent of Bengali Muslims. Bengali Muslims are usually classified as Bangladeshi Americans and American Muslims.
- Bengali Indian Americans, Americans of Indian and Bengali Hindu descent whose ancestral origins are in West Bengal, Bangladesh or erstwhile East Bengal, Jharkhand, Purnia, Odisha, Goalpara region, Assam, the Barak Valley, Tripura, Nepal, Meghalaya, Rakhine state and other parts of India who are known as Probashi Bengalis. Bengali Hindu Americans also come from Southeast Asia, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South America, Caribbean and other parts of the world.
- ^ ACS 1-Year Estimates
- ^ "More Foreign-Born Immigrants Live In NYC Than There Are People In Chicago". Huffington Post. 19 December 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
Over 40 percent of the United States' Bengali population lives in New York City.
- ^ "Chapter 1: Religious Affiliation". The World’s Muslims: Unity and Diversity. Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project. 9 August 2012.
- ^ "Bangladesh". The World Factbook. CIA. Archived from the original on 13 February 2021. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ^ Bangladesh: Country profile. Archived 6 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Bangladesh Bureau of Educational Information and Statistics (BANBEIS).
- ^ "Bengali speakers to be counted in US census". 10 December 2017.