- Ethiopian American
Ethiopian Americans are Americans of
Ethiopia n descent. They make up the second largest immigrant group from the African continent in the United States.There are many ethnic groups among Ethiopians in general, and thus the same is true among Ethiopian Americans.
While the
Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area has the highest concentration ofEthiopians in the U.S.,Minnesota is considered to have one of the largest communities in the United States. It is impossible to point to survey or published dataFact|date=August 2007 but it is generally accepted that there are anywhere between 100,000 to 150,000 Ethiopians in the area. Similar to other immigrant communities, a great majority of Ethiopian Minnesotans reside in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.Columbus, Ohio has the third largest Ethiopian community in the US with close to 40,000. [ [http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=11947 Somali Warlord Heads to Seattle - News - City - The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper ] ]Also to note
Los Angeles has a "Little Ethiopia" section located in Fairfax Avenue between Wilshire and Olympic Boulevards, home to a majority of the city's 35,000 Ethiopians. Fact|date=August 2008"Oromo Americans" are Americans of
Oromo descent. They are a sub-group of Ethiopian Americans.ee also
References
External links
* [http://www.oromoamerican.org Oromo American site]
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