Guinean Americans

This article is about US residents with origins in the Republic of Guinea. For the group of Americans formerly known as Guinea people, see Chestnut Ridge people.
Guinean Americans
Total population
3,016 (ancestry or ethnic origin, 2000 US Census)[1]
11,000 (Guinean born, 2008–2009 US Census)[2]
Regions with significant populations
Mainly Washington, DC, New York City, Georgia, Texas, Ohio, Illinois and Rhode Island
Languages
Religion
Islam, Christianity, Traditional religions
Related ethnic groups
African American, American groups of West Africa (Ivorian, Malian, Senegalese, Sierra Leonean, Liberian, etc.), French

Guinean Americans are an ethnic group of Americans of Guinean descent. According to estimates by 2000 US Census, there were 3,016 people who identified Guinean as one of their two top ancestry identities.[note 1] However, in November 2010 the New York Times estimated that as many 10,000 Guineans and Guinean Americans reside in New York City alone.[3]

  1. ^ "Table 1. First, Second, and Total Responses to the Ancestry Question by Detailed Ancestry Code: 2000". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2010-12-02.
  2. ^ New Streams: Black African Migration to the United States. Posted by Randy Capps, Kristen McCabe, and Michael Fix.
  3. ^ MacDonald, Kerry (2010-11-05). "Far From Home, Guineans Prepare to cast their vote". New York Times. Retrieved 2011-07-02.


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