Danish Americans facts for kids
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| Total population | |
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| 1,284,171 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 |
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.
Images for kids
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Gutzon Borglum chiseled Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills of South Dakota, now a modern American icon.
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Battling Nelson, presumed early 1900s
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The Barrison Sisters reveal kittens beneath their skirts, at the conclusion of their notorious vaudeville cat dance, c. 1890s
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George Anderson
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