Quick facts for kids
Danish Americans
Dansk-amerikanere
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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 |
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California, Utah, Iowa, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Minnesota and Illinois |
Languages |
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English, Danish |
Religion |
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Christianity (predominantly Lutheran; also other Protestant churches, Catholicism and Mormonism) |
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Danes, Greenlanders, Greenlandic Americans, Danish Canadians, Danish Australians, Scandinavian Americans, Norwegian Americans, European Americans |
Distribution of Danish Americans according to the
2000 census.
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.
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Central Europe |
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Eastern Europe |
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Northern Europe
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- Estonian
- Finnish
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Scandinavian
- Danish
- Icelandic
- Norwegian
- Norwegian Dakotan
- Norwegian Minnesotan
- Sami
- Swedish
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Southeast Europe3 |
- Albanian
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Croatian
- Cypriot
- Greek
- Macedonian
- Moldovan
- Montenegrin
- Romanian
- Serbian
- Turkish4
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Southern Europe |
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Western Europe |
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1 Poles came to the United States legally as Austrians, Germans, Prussians or Russians throughout the 19th century, because from 1772-1795 till 1918, all Polish lands had been partitioned between imperial Austria, Prussia (a protoplast of Germany) and Russia until Poland regained its sovereignty in the wake of World War I.
2 Russia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. The vast majority of its population (80%) lives in European Russia, therefore Russia as a whole is included as a European country here.
3 Yugoslav Americans are the American people from the former Yugoslavia.
4 Turkey is a transcontinental country in the Middle East and Southeast Europe. Has a small part of its territory (3%) in Southeast Europe called Turkish Thrace.
5 Azerbaijan and Georgia are transcontinental countries. They have a small part of their territories in the European part of the Caucasus.
6 Kazakhstan is technically a bicontinental country, having a small portion in European hands.
7 Disputed; Jews and Roma both have recognised origins and historic ties to Asia ( the Levant and Northern India respectively), but individual groups listed here experienced at least some distinctive identity development while in diaspora among Europeans.
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Images for kids
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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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