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The earliest Greeks came to Hawaii after Captain James Cook, including some with Captain George Vancouver’s expedition. Subsequently, in the 1830s Greeks came as whalers and traders . The Russian Orthodox Church was established in 1839 which Greek Orthodox Christians attended.
King Kamehameha I of Hawaii. Economic and demographic factors in the 18th to 19th centuries reshaped the Kingdom of Hawaii.With unfamiliar diseases such as bubonic plague, leprosy, yellow fever, declining fertility, high infant mortality, infanticide, the introduction of alcohol, and emigration off the islands or to larger cities for trade jobs, the Native Hawaiian population fell from around ...
[34] [35] After the 1981 admission of Greece to the European Union, annual U.S. immigration numbers fell to less than 2,000. In recent years, Greek immigration to the United States has been minimal; in fact, net migration has been towards Greece. Over 72,000 U.S. citizens currently live in Greece (1999); most of them are Greek Americans.
Nearly 20% is people 65+ and per the Census Bureau, the cost of living is as follows: Median Household Income: $94,712 Median value of owner-occupied housing units: $765,300
Hawaii has the eighteenth highest per capita income in the United States of America, at $21,525 (2000). [ citation needed ] Its personal per capita income is $46,034 (2014). [ 1 ] The information is represented in the table below.
In modern times, Hawaiʻi is known commonly as the "Big Island" to reduce confusion between the island and the state itself. The island also contains the state's highest peak: Mauna Kea at 13,803 feet (4,207 m). Hawaiʻi County as a whole has 27 islands and a total population of 185,079.
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Hawaii (/ h ə ˈ w aɪ. i / ⓘ hə-WY-ee; [10] Hawaiian: Hawaiʻi [həˈvɐjʔi, həˈwɐjʔi]) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles (3,200 km) southwest of the U.S. mainland.