Lebanese Americans
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| Estimates vary. US Census estimates 685,672, while the Arab American Institute has stated that there are 1.4 million Lebanese Americans. | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Michigan, California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Arizona, New Jersey, Las Vegas | |
| Languages | |
| American English, Lebanese Arabic, French, Spanish | |
| Religion | |
| Majority: Christianity (Maronite Catholic, Orthodox, Melkite Catholic, Protestantism) Minorities: Shias, Sunni Muslims, and Druze. | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Other Lebanese people · Syrian Americans · Palestinian Americans · Middle Eastern Americans · |
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Lebanese Americans (Arabic: أمريكيون لبنانيون, romanized: Amrīkiyyūn Lubnāniyyūn) are Americans of Lebanese descent. This includes both those who are native to the United States of America, as well as immigrants from Lebanon and Latin America.
Lebanese Americans comprise 0.79% of the American population, as of the American Community Survey estimations for year 2007, and 32.4% of all Americans who originate from the Middle East. Lebanese Americans have had significant participation in American politics and involvement in both social and political activism. The diversity within the region sprouted from the diaspora of the surrounding countries. There are more Lebanese outside Lebanon today than within.