Bangladeshi American
Overview
United States
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s of Bangladesh
Bangladesh
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i descent. The overwhelming majority of Bangladeshi Americans are Bengalis
Bengali people
The Bengali people are an ethnic community native to the historic region of Bengal in South Asia. They speak Bengali , which is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit and Sanskrit languages. In their native language, they are referred to as বাঙালী...
. Most of them have immigrated from Sylhet
Sylhet Division
Sylhet Division , also known as Greater Sylhet or Sylhet region, is the northeastern division of Bangladesh, named after its main city, Sylhet...
region with a long trading history. Bangladeshi immigrants arrived in the United States
United States
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especially since the early 1990s to become among the fastest growing ethnic communities that decade. New York City
New York City
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, Paterson
Paterson, New Jersey
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in New Jersey
New Jersey
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, Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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, Washington, D.C.
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, Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago
Chicago
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, Miami, Dallas, and Hamtramck, Michigan
Hamtramck, Michigan
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are home to notable Bangladeshi communities.
Immigration to the United States from Bangladesh grew slowly from the 1970s-80s.
