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Indians have influenced Barbadian cuisine, music, and culture. Barbados is also home to expatriates from other countries who mainly come from the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. [14] The largest ethnic groups in Barbados is black (92.4%) or mixed (3.1%). 2.7% of Barbados' population is white and 1.3% South Asian.
This is a list of US places named after non-US places.In the case of this list, place means any named location that's smaller than a county or equivalent: cities, towns, villages, hamlets, neighborhoods, municipalities, boroughs, townships, civil parishes, localities, census-designated places, and some districts.
Barbadian (or Bajan) Americans are Americans of full or partial Barbadian heritage. The 2000 Census recorded 53,785 US residents born on the Caribbean island [ 2 ] 52,170 of whom were born to non-American parents [ 3 ] and 54,509 people who described their ethnicity as Barbadian. [ 4 ]
California (from the name of a fictional island country in Las sergas de Esplandián, a popular Spanish chivalric romance by Garci Rodríguez de Mon talvo) Colorado (meaning "red [colored]", "ruddy" or "colored" in masculine form. Named after Colorado City; now called Old Colorado City.)
Bajan is a surname. It may refer to: Artúr Baján (1888–1969), Hungarian rower; Jerzy Bajan (1901–1967), Polish aviator; Marek Bajan (born 1956), Polish pentathlete;
Bajan may refer to: Geography and culture. Barbados. Barbadians, known by the colloquialism Bajan(s) (pronounced 'bay-jun') Barbadian English language;
The name "American Samoa" first started being used by the U.S. Navy around 1904, [112] and "American Samoa" was made official in 1911. [113] District of Columbia: 1738: Neo-Latin: Columbia: Named for Columbia, the national personification of the United States, which is itself named for Christopher Columbus. Guam: 1898 [115] [note 2] (December ...
Samuel de Champlain chose the name in 1608 for the new town there, [140] which gave its name to a section of French Canada and then the British province of Quebec, which eventually became modern Canada and even briefly included the entire Ohio River valley between the enactment of the Quebec Act in 1774 and the surrender of the region to the ...