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*There are an estimated 50,000 Brazilians of partial Luxembourgian descent. Luxembourgian immigration to Brazil occurred mainly around 1828, when nearly 1,000 Luxembourgers settled there.<ref>"Luxembourgian Brazilians", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourgian_Brazilians, accessed 13 May 2021.</ref> | *There are an estimated 50,000 Brazilians of partial Luxembourgian descent. Luxembourgian immigration to Brazil occurred mainly around 1828, when nearly 1,000 Luxembourgers settled there.<ref>"Luxembourgian Brazilians", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourgian_Brazilians, accessed 13 May 2021.</ref> | ||
====United States==== | |||
According to the United States' 2000 Census, there were 45,139 Americans of full or partial Luxembourgish descent. | |||
*In 1940 the number of Americans with Luxembourgish ancestry was around 100,000. | |||
*The first families from Luxembourg arrived in the United States, around 1842, '''fleeing of the overpopulation and economic change in the newly independent country'''. They worked in the field, as was traditional in their country. | |||
*Luxembourgish Americans are overwhelmingly concentrated in '''the Midwest''', where most originally settled in the nineteenth century. At the 2000 Census, the states with the largest self-reported Luxembourgian American populations were Illinois (6,963), Wisconsin (6,580), Minnesota (5,867), Iowa (5,624), and California (2,824).<ref> | |||
===Immigration=== | ===Immigration=== | ||
====Portuguese Immigrants==== | ====Portuguese Immigrants==== | ||