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Georgian Americans
ქართველი ამერიკელები
Total population
Unknown
Regions with significant populations
New York City Metropolitan Area (including Northern New Jersey), and other major U.S. metro areas
Languages
English, Georgian, Russian, other languages
Religion
Predominantly Georgian Orthodox, with some Catholics, Judaism

Georgian Americans (Georgian: ამერიკელი ქართველები) are Americans of full or partial Georgian ancestry. They include ethnic Georgians who have immigrated to the U.S. from Georgia, as well as other areas with large Georgian populations, such as Russia.

The exact number of Americans of Georgian descent is unknown. This is because 19th and 20th century U.S. immigration records often did not differentiate between various ethnic groups originating from the Russian Empire, of which Georgia was part until 1918.

European Americans

Central Europe	Austrian¹ Czech Silesian German¹ Amish Frisian German Texan Pennsylvania Dutch German Mennonites from Russia Hungarian Hungarian Ohioans Liechtensteiner Luxembourgian Polish¹ Kashubian Slovak Slovene Sorbian Swiss

Eastern Europe	Armenian Azerbaijani⁵ Belarusian Chechen Georgian⁵ Kazakh⁶ Russian^1, ² Cossack Kalmyk Ukrainian Cossack Rusyn

Northern Europe	Estonian Finnish Latvian Lithuanian Scandinavian Danish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Norwegian Dakotan Norwegian Minnesotan Sami Swedish

Southeast Europe³	Albanian Bosnian Bulgarian Croatian Cypriot Greek Macedonian Moldovan Montenegrin Romanian Serbian Turkish⁴

Southern Europe	Italian Sicilian Maltese Portuguese Sanmarinese Spanish Asturian Basque Canarian Catalan Galician Hispano

Western Europe	Belgian Flemish British Cornish English Manx Scots-Irish Scottish Welsh Dutch French Basque Breton Cajun Corsican Irish

Other Europeans	Ashkenazi Jews⁷ Sephardi Jews⁷ Roma Hungarian Slovak Romanies⁷ Louisiana Creole Cajun Isleños

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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