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Bulgarian Americans
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| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 100,557[1] (2019 Census) 250,000 +30,000 students General assessments of Bulgarian diplomatic representations in the US (2010)[2] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| California, with smaller communities in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Michigan, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Minnesota, Nebraska, Texas, and Washington | |
| Languages | |
| Bulgarian, American English | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Orthodox Christianity Minority Atheism, Islam (mainly Pomaks), Judaism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Bulgarian Australians, Bulgarian Canadians, Bulgarian New Zealanders, Bulgarians in South America, Macedonian Americans, Serbian Americans, Romanian Americans |
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Bulgarian Americans are Americans of full or partial Bulgarian descent.[3]
For the 2000 United States Census, 55,489 Americans indicated Bulgarian as their first ancestry,[4] while 92,841 persons declared to have Bulgarian ancestry.[5] Those can include Bulgarian Americans living in the United States for one or several generations, dual Bulgarian American citizens, or any other Bulgarian Americans who consider themselves to be affiliated to both cultures or countries.
Bulgarian Americans include persons born in Bulgaria, in the United States, and in other countries with ethnic Bulgarian population. Because some Bulgarians are not American citizens, others are dual citizens, and still others' ancestors moved to the U.S. several generations ago, some of these people consider themselves to be simply Americans, Bulgarians, Bulgarians living in the United States or American Bulgarians.
After the 2000 U.S. census, the population grew significantly — according to the general assessments of Bulgarian diplomatic representations in the US for 2010, there were 250,000 Bulgarians residing in the country, and more than 30,000 students.[2]
- ^ "PEOPLE REPORTING ANCESTRY. American Community Survey B04006 2019 1-Year Estimates". data.census.gov.
- ^ a b Посолство на Република България, Вашингтон, САЩ - Българска общност [Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria - Bulgarians in the US] (in Bulgarian). Mfa.bg. Archived from the original on May 6, 2011. Retrieved December 25, 2014.
- ^ Yu, Eleanor. "Bulgarian Americans." Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America (3rd ed., vol. 1, Gale, 2014), pp. 357-371.
- ^ "Ancestry: Census 2000, Census 2000 Summary File 3". U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on February 10, 2020.
- ^ "2006 American Community Survey: Total ancestry categories tallied for people with one or more ancestry categories reported". U.S. Census Bureau.
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