Swedish Americans
A Swedish American (Swedish: svenskamerikan) is an American person of Swedish descent. They usually come from the great migration from Sweden to the United States in the 19th century. Many of them settled down in Minnesota.
Total population | |
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4,754,703 1.4% of the US population (2009)[1] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Most Prevalent in the Midwestern United States Plurality in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Delaware, Pennsylvania, The Dakotas, California, Iowa, Michigan, Washington, New York, the Pacific Northwest, Illinois, New England, New Jersey, and Massachusetts | |
Languages | |
American English, Swedish | |
Religion | |
Predominantly Lutheranism, Church of Sweden, Protestantism, Catholicism, Mormonism. | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Swedes, Swedish Britons, Swedish Canadians, Swedish Australians, Scandinavian Americans, Danish Americans, Norwegian Americans, Icelandic Americans |
Famous Swedish-Americans
- John Ericsson, engineer
- Greta Garbo, movie actress
- Charles Lindbergh, aviator
- Claes Oldenburg, artist
Swedish Americans Media
Graves of Swedish American pioneer siblings Niels Truhlsen (grandfather of Stanley M. Truhlsen) and Anna Truedsdotter Hansen in Blair, Nebraska.
The C. A. Nothnagle Log House (c. 1638) in New Jersey is one of the oldest surviving houses from the New Sweden colony and is one of the oldest log cabins and houses in the U.S.
Birgit Ridderstedt at rehearsals with her young dance group for appearance in the 1960 Swedish Days Parade of Geneva, Illinois, with a Ragnar Benson truck
The distribution of Swedish Americans according to the 2000 census
Minneapolis, Minnesota has the largest concentration of Swedes outside Sweden. The city is home to the American Swedish Institute (pictured).
References
- ↑ "Census 2008 Community Survey". Archived from the original on 2020-02-11. Retrieved 2009-12-30.
Other websites
Media related to American people of Swedish descent at Wikimedia Commons