Orang Amerika Malaysia (Malay) | |
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Total population | |
38,277 (2019 U.S. Census)[1] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
New York City Metropolitan Area,[2][3][4] San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, Houston Metropolitan Area, Seattle Metropolitan Area, Illinois, Indiana, Arizona, Virginia, Ohio, Colorado, Washington, D.C., Minneapolis, Nashville and Dallas[5] | |
Languages | |
American English, Malay, Chinese, Tamil and others | |
Religion | |
Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism |
Malaysian Americans (Malay: Orang Amerika Malaysia) are Americans of Malaysian ancestry. Rather than a single ethnic group, Malaysian Americans descend from a variety of ethnic groups that inhabit the Southeast Asian country of Malaysia, all of which speak different languages and profess different cultures and beliefs, including Malay, Chinese and Tamil, as Malaysian is primarily a national identification. According to answers provided to an open-ended question included in the 2019 US Census, 38,227 people said that their ancestry or ethnic origin was Malaysian.[1]