| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 900,895 (2010 US census) 1,303,910 (North African-born, 2014) [1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| New Jersey · New York · California · Washington, D.C. · Texas • Michigan | |
| Languages | |
| Arabic · Berber · Coptic · American English · French | |
| Religion | |
| Sunni Islam · Oriental Orthodoxy · Catholicism · Judaism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Arab Americans, Berber Americans, Coptic Americans, other African people |
North African Americans are Americans with origins in the region of North Africa. This group includes Americans of Algerian, Egyptian, Libyan, Moroccan, and Tunisian descent.
People from North Africa have been in the United States since the 16th century. Some of the early explorers who accompanied the Spanish on their expeditions in the United States were North Africans, a group that also contributed to the settlement of some Spanish colonies of that country. As of 2008, the North African population in the United States exceeds 800,000 people.
North Africans in the US can be of Egyptian, Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian, and Libyan. Sometimes Canarians are also included in this group, because of the geographical location of the Canary Islands in North Africa, and the partly North African ancestry of their population (the Canarians are generally of predominant European ancestry with some Berber extract) are also considered North Africans (although politically are Europeans, and linguistically, being Hispanic).