Puerto Ricans in the United States facts for kids
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| Total population | |
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 5,791,4531.77% of the U.S. population (2018) |
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| Regions with significant populations | |
| Majority concentrated in the Northeast region and the southern state of Florida New York, Florida, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Jersey Smaller numbers in other parts of the country, including other parts of the Northeast like Rhode Island, Delaware and Maryland. Also major cities in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia and Texas down South, Ohio, Illinois and Wisconsin in the Midwest and California and Hawaii out west, among other areas. |
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| Languages | |
| Spanish and English | |
| Religion | |
| majority Roman Catholic and Protestant, minority African diasporic religions | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Criollos, Mestizos, Mulattos, Taíno, Europeans, Africans |
Puerto Ricans in the United States, also called Stateside Puerto Ricans, or Puerto Rican Americans, are Puerto Ricans in the United States proper (the 50 states and the District of Columbia), who are born in or trace family ancestry to the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico.
Images for kids
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Teatro Puerto Rico (1950s) in the South Bronx, New York City
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Ricky Martin at the annual Puerto Rican parade in Manhattan
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The 2005 National Puerto Rican Parade in New York City
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Division Street (Paseo Boricua) in Chicago, facing east from Mozart Street, one-half block west of California Avenue
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Sonia Sotomayor, born in the Bronx, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
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The Puerto Rican population in the United States, 2000 (graphic by Angelo Falcón)
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The Puerto Rican flag in East Harlem in New York City, outside of the Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, winter 2005
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Aubrey Plaza, actress and comedian.
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Adrienne Bailon actress, television personality, and entrepreneur.
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Antonia Novello – Surgeon General of the United States
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Rita Moreno actress, dancer, and singer.
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Jennifer Lopez, one of the highest-grossing and most multi-faceted triple threat entertainers in global history, is a Nuyorican, born in the Bronx.
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Melanie Martinez in February 2014
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Lymari Nadal actress, film producer and scriptwriter.
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Melissa Mark-Viverito
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See also
In Spanish: Puertorriqueños de los Estados Unidos para niños
