List of Arabic neighborhoods

Islamic Cultural Center of New York (المركز الثقافي الإسلامي في نيويورك) in Upper Manhattan

Characteristics

Arabic language

Arabic speakers in the US
Year	Speakers
1910^a	32,868
1920^a	57,557
1930^a	67,830
1940^a	50,940
1960^a	49,908
1970^a	73,657
1980^a	251,409
1990[1]	355,150
2000[2]	614,582
2005[3]	686,986
2010[4]	864,961
2014[5]	1,117,304
^a Foreign-born population only[6][7]

History

America

Arab immigration to the United States began when Arabs accompanied Spanish explorers to the US in the 15th century.^[8] During the Revolutionary War, horses exported from Algeria replenished the American cavalry and Morocco was the first country to officially recognize the independence of the United States in 1787 in what is known as the "treaty of Friendship".^[9] However, Arabs did not start immigrating to the United States in significant numbers until the 19th century. Since the first major wave of Arab immigration in the late 19th century, the majority of Arab immigrants have settled in or near large cities.^[10] Roughly 94 percent of all Arab immigrants live in metropolitan areas,^[10] and nearly one third of all Arab Americans live in or around just three cities: New York, Los Angeles and Detroit.^[10] While most Arab-Americans have similarly settled in just a handful of major American cities, they form a fairly diverse population representing nearly every country and religion from the Arab world. There are still a lot of Arabs immigrating to America. Egypt is in the top 10 of countries where the most immigrants came from.

See Arab immigration to the United States

Locations

Overseas Arabs

Total population
According to the International Organization for Migration, there are 13 million Arab migrants, of whom 5.8 million reside in Arab countries.
Regions with significant populations
Brazil	10,000,000[11]
Colombia	4,700,000[12][13]
France	4,000,000
United States	3,500,000
Argentina	3,500,000
Italy	1,500,000
Venezuela	1,600,000[14]
Mexico	1,100,000[15]
Chile	800,000
United Kingdom	500,000[16]
Germany	500,000
Canada	350,000[17]
Honduras	150,000-200,000[18]
Japan	265,000[19]
Languages
Arabic, French, Italian, Spanish, English, Portuguese, Hebrew, Japanese among others
Religion
Islam & Christianity in the Americas, Islam in Europe , but also Druze and irreligion

North America

New York City:

• Astoria, Queens has many Egyptians, also called Little Egypt.
• Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn
• Bay Ridge and Brighton Beach in Brooklyn are fast growing Arab neighborhoods and new ethnic Arab communities in New York City.^[20]
• Boerum Hill and Midwood in Brooklyn have large communities of Arab Muslims.
• Upper Manhattan

Western New York:

• 3rd Street, Niagara Falls

New Jersey:

• Clifton
• Jersey City
• Paterson, also known as Little Ramallah.

Michigan:

• Dearborn is the place in America with the highest concentration of Arabic people. Around 40% of the people there see themselves as Arab.

Europe

Netherlands:

The biggest group of Arabs in the Netherlands are Moroccans. Around 20 % of the 400,000 Moroccans there are Arab, but that concentration is increasing. Egyptians are the second biggest group.

• Schilderswijk, The Hague
• Amsterdam Nieuw-West, Amsterdam

Neighborhoods like Overtoomse Veld, Slotervaart, Slotermeer, Osdorp, Geuzenveld, Kolenkitbuurt and Bos en Lommer have a high concentration of Moroccans.

• Kanaleneiland, Utrecht.
• Rotterdam Zuid

Belgium:

• Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Brussels
• Schaerbeek, Brussels
• Borgerhout, Antwerp

France: France has over 5 million Muslims.

Germany:

See also

Algerian British Arab Americans Arab Argentines Arab Australians Arab Brazilians British Arabs Arab Canadians Arab Chileans Arab diaspora in Colombia Arab Haitians Arab Mexicans Arab Singaporeans Arab Venezuelans Arabs in Austria Arabs in Bulgaria Arabs in Europe Arabs in France Arabs in Germany Arabs in Greece Arabs in India

Arab Indonesians Arabs in Italy Arab citizens of Israel Arabs in the Republic of Macedonia Arabs in the Netherlands Arabs in Pakistan Arabs in Romania Arabs in Serbia Arabs in Spain Arabs in Sweden Arabs in Turkey History of Arabs in Afghanistan Arma people (Saharan Arab and Spanish) British Iraqis Chaush (Yemenis in South India) Lebanese people in Ecuador Egyptians in the United Kingdom Emirati diaspora Hadhrami diaspora Iranian Arabs

Iraqi Biradari (Iraqis residing in India and Pakistan) Iraqi diaspora Lebanese diaspora Lebanese Americans Lebanese Argentines Lebanese Australians Lebanese Brazilians Lebanese Canadians Magyarab people (Egyptian Arab and Hungarian) Moroccan diaspora List of Arab Americans Palestinian diaspora Refugees of Iraq Sri Lankan Moors Syrian Americans Yemeni Americans Yemenis in the United Kingdom

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