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Belgian Americans
Total population
361,667 (2010 census)^[1]
Regions with significant populations
Wisconsin · Michigan · Ohio · New York · Los Angeles • Florida · Illinois · California · Minnesota
Languages
American English · Flemish Dutch · Belgian French · Walloon · German
Religion
Predominantly Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
French Americans · Dutch Americans · German Americans

Belgian Americans are Americans who can trace their ancestry to immigrants from Belgium who emigrated to the United States. While the first natives of the then-Southern Netherlands arrived in America in the 17th century, most of the Belgian immigrants arrived during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Belgian Americans Media

The Emigrants (1896) by the Belgian artist Eugène Laermans
Namur, Wisconsin, a Belgian American settlement named after the Belgian city of Namur
Two processional giants, an important element of Belgian and Northern French folklore, pictured in Brussels, Wisconsin.
19th-century view of Belgique, Missouri, and its church
St. Charles Borromeo church in Detroit, Michigan was built by Flemish immigrants in 1912

References

↑ Total ancestry categories tallied for people with one or more ancestry categories reported 2010 American Community Survey 1-Year EstimatesUnited States Census Bureau. Retrieved 30 November 2012.

v t e Demographics of the United States
Demographic history
Economic and social	Household income Income inequality
Religion	Buddhists Christians Jews
Race and ethnicity	People of the United States / Americans 2020 Census Racism White Americans: European Americans English Americans French Americans German Americans Irish Americans Italian Americans Iranian Americans Israeli Americans White Hispanic and Latino Americans Black Americans: African Americans African immigrants to the United States Afro-Caribbean / West Indian Americans Black Hispanic and Latino Americans Asian Americans Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans Chinese Americans Filipino Americans Indian Americans Japanese Americans Vietnamese Americans Americans from other parts of the Americas: Canadian Guyanese American Hispanic and Latino Americans Cuban Americans Mexican Americans Puerto Ricans (Stateside) Native Americans and Alaska Natives Pacific Islander Americans Chamorro Americans Native Hawaiians Samoan Americans Other ethnic groups Romani people

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.

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