Guatemalan Americans
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Guatemalan Americans (Spanish: guatemalteco-americanos, norteamericanos de origen guatemalteco or estadounidenses de origen guatemalteco) are Americans of full or partial Guatemalan descent. The Guatemalan American population at the 2010 Census was 1,044,209. Guatemalans are the sixth largest Hispanic group in the United States and the second largest Central American population after Salvadorans. Half of the Guatemalan population is situated in two parts of the country, the Northeast and Southern California.
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Total population | |
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1,878,599 (2022)[1] 0.56% of the U.S. population (2022)[2] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Southern California (especially in Los Angeles), Miami, Houston, San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, North Jersey, Boston, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Charlotte, Dallas, Atlanta, Las Vegas Valley, Inland Empire, Phoenix | |
Languages | |
American English, Guatemalan Spanish, Mayan languages | |
Religion | |
Roman Catholic, Evangelical Christianity, Indigenous beliefs | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Hispanic Americans, Guatemalans, Spanish Americans, Mexican Americans, Honduran Americans, Salvadoran Americans |
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The states with the largest Guatemalan population are California (29%), Florida (8%) and Texas (7%).[3]