Chinese Americans

Chinese Americans are Americans of Chinese ancestry. Chinese Americans constitute one group of overseas Chinese and also a subgroup of East Asian Americans, which is a further subgroup of Asian Americans. Many Chinese Americans are immigrants along with their descendants from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan, as well as from other regions that include large populations of the Chinese diaspora, especially Southeast Asia and some countries like Canada, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and France. The Chinese American community is the largest overseas Chinese community outside Asia. It is also the third largest community in the Chinese diaspora, behind the Chinese communities in Thailand and Malaysia. The 2016 Community Survey of the US Census estimates a population of Chinese Americans of one or more races to be 5,081,682.