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Los Angeles, California, has the largest Thai population outside of Asia. [7] It is home to the world's first Thai Town.In 2002, it was estimated that over 80,000 Thais and Thai Americans live in Los Angeles.
California possesses the largest Thai population outside of Asia, and is the only state in the country that has a designated "Thai Town," which is also the first of its kind globally. Of the 5.6 million Asian people in California, approximately 68,000 are Thai, which is 28.5% of the entire Thai population in the United States. [14]
Thai Town (Thai: ไทยทาวน์) is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California. In 2008, it was one of the five Asian Pacific Islander neighborhoods in the city—along with Chinatown , Little Tokyo , Historic Filipinotown , and Koreatown —that received federal recognition as a Preserve America neighborhood. [ 1 ]
The following list of ethnic groups is a partial list of United States cities and towns in which a majority (over 50%) of the population is Asian American or Asian, according to the United States Census Bureau.
California also has a Thai American community of over 250,000, concentrated in Southern California, with small Thai and Southeast Asian communities in Perris and Banning in the Inland Empire region. Los Angeles has the largest Thai population outside of Thailand and is also home to the world's first Thai Town.
Asian Americans makeup 11.7% of Los Angeles’ population. [1]There are more Chinese, Filipino, Korean, Taiwanese, Cambodian, Thai, Indonesian, Sri Lankan, and Burmese Americans living in Los Angeles County than all other counties in the United States of America.
Thai Street Bistro: Crab pad Thai, choo chee salmon and string beans stir-fried in spicy red curry paste stand out at this understated Tahoe Park gem, which opened in 2019. 6490 Broadway ...
In the 1990s, redistricting led to the election of Latino members of the city council and the first Latino members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors since its inception. In 1994, California voters passed Proposition 187, which denied undocumented immigrants and their families in California welfare, health benefits, and education. [68]