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Norwegian Americans
*Norskamerikanere*
*Norskamerikanarar*
Total population
4,642,526 1.5% of the US population^[1]
Regions with significant populations
Midwest	2,273,683
West	1,552,462
South	545,699
Northeast	266,881
Minnesota	868,361
Wisconsin	466,469
California	412,177
Washington	410,818
North Dakota	199,154
Iowa	173,640
Illinois	171,745
Oregon	164,676
Texas	129,081
Arizona	124,618
Colorado	119,164
Florida	117,444
South Dakota	113,543
New York	92,796
Montana	90,425
Languages
English, Norwegian
Religion
Christianity (predominantly Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, Catholicism) Judaism (predominantly Orthodox Judaism and Reform Judaism), Atheism
Related ethnic groups
Norwegians, Norwegian Canadians, Scandinavian Americans, Danish Americans, Swedish Americans, Norwegian Australians, Norwegian New Zealanders, other

Norwegian Americans (Bokmål: Norskamerikanere, Nynorsk: Norskamerikanarar) are Americans with ancestral roots in Norway. Norwegian immigrants went to the United States mostly in the latter half of the 19th century and the first few decades of the 20th century.

References[change | change source]

↑ "American FactFinder". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved December 28, 2017.^{[permanent dead link]}

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v t e European Americans
Central Europe	Austrian¹ Czech German¹ Amish German Texan Pennsylvania Dutch German Mennonites from Russia Hungarian Hungarian Ohioans Kashubian Liechtensteiner Polish¹ Slovak Sorbian Swiss
Eastern Europe	Armenian⁶ Azerbaijani⁴ Belarusian Chechen Georgian⁴ Kazakh⁴ Moldovan Russian Cossack Kalmyk Ukrainian Cossack Rusyn
Northern Europe	Danish Greenlandic Estonian Faroese Finnish Icelandic Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Norwegian Dakotan Norwegian Minnesotan Sami Swedish
Southeast Europe³	Albanian Bosnian Bulgarian Cypriot⁶ Croatian Greek Macedonian Montenegrin Romanian Slovene Serbian Alaskan Serbs Turkish⁴
Southern Europe	Italian Sicilian Maltese Monacan Portuguese Sammarinese Spanish Asturian Basque Canarian Catalan Galician Hispano
Western Europe	Belgian British Cornish English Manx Scots-Irish/Ulster Scots Scottish Welsh Dutch Frisian French Acadian Basque Breton Cajun Canadian Corsican Huguenot Irish Luxembourgian
Other Europeans	White Americans Non-Hispanic whites White Hispanic and Latino Melungeon Métis Roma Hungarian Slovak Romanies⁵ Louisiana Creole Cajun Isleños French Canadian Acadian Cajun
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. ³ Yugoslav Americans are the American people from the former Yugoslavia. ⁴ Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Turkey span the conventional boundary between Europe and Asia. ⁵ Disputed; Roma have recognized origins and historic ties to Asia (specifically to Northern India), but they experienced at least some distinctive identity development while in diaspora among Europeans. ⁶ Armenia and Cyprus are located entirely in Asia, but historically have stronger tie with Europe.

v t e Norwegians abroad and their descendants
Europe	Denmark Finland Iceland Ireland Russia Sweden United Kingdom
Africa	South Africa
Americas	Brazil Canada Mexico United States Minnesota Dakota Venezuela
Asia & Oceania	Australia New Zealand
See also: Scandinavian diaspora and Norwegians

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