Place of birth for the U.S. Foreign Born Population	

 	United States
Total:	"31,107,889"
Europe:	"4,915,557"
Northern Europe:	"974,619"
United Kingdom	"677,751"
Ireland	"156,474"
Sweden	"49,724"
Other Northern Europe	"90,670"
Western Europe:	"1,095,847"
Austria	"63,648"
France	"151,154"
Germany	"706,704"
Netherlands	"94,570"
Other Western Europe	"79,771"
Southern Europe:	"934,665"
Greece	"165,750"
Italy	"473,338"
Portugal	"203,119"
Spain	"82,858"
Other Southern Europe	"9,600"
Eastern Europe:	"1,906,056"
Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia)	"83,081"
Hungary	"92,017"
Poland	"466,742"
Romania	"135,966"
Belarus	"38,503"
Russia	"340,177"
Ukraine	"275,153"
Bosnia and Herzegovina	"98,766"
Yugoslavia	"113,987"
Other Eastern Europe	"261,664"
"Europe, n.e.c."	"4,370"
Asia:	"8,226,254"
Eastern Asia:	"2,739,510"
China:	"1,518,652"
"China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan"	"988,857"
Hong Kong	"203,580"
Taiwan	"326,215"
Japan	"347,539"
Korea	"864,125"
Other Eastern Asia	"9,194"
South Central Asia:	"1,745,201"
Afghanistan	"45,195"
Bangladesh	"95,294"
India	"1,022,552"
Iran	"283,226"
Pakistan	"223,477"
Other South Central Asia	"75,457"
South Eastern Asia:	"3,044,288"
Cambodia	"136,978"
Indonesia	"72,552"
Laos	"204,284"
Malaysia	"49,459"
Philippines	"1,369,070"
Thailand	"169,801"
Vietnam	"988,174"
Other South Eastern Asia	"53,970"
Western Asia:	"658,603"
Iraq	"89,892"
Israel	"109,719"
Jordan	"46,794"
Lebanon	"105,910"
Syria	"54,561"
Turkey	"78,378"
Armenia	"65,280"
Other Western Asia	"108,069"
"Asia, n.e.c."	"38,652"
Africa:	"881,300"
Eastern Africa:	"213,299"
Ethiopia	"69,531"
Other Eastern Africa	"143,768"
Middle Africa	"26,900"
Northern Africa:	"190,491"
Egypt	"113,396"
Other Northern Africa	"77,095"
Southern Africa:	"66,496"
South Africa	"63,558"
Other Southern Africa	"2,938"
Western Africa:	"326,507"
Ghana	"65,572"
Nigeria	"134,940"
Sierra Leone	"20,831"
Other Western Africa	"105,164"
"Africa, n.e.c."	"57,607"
Oceania:	"168,046"
Australia and New Zealand Subregion:	"83,837"
Australia	"60,965"
Other Australian and New Zealand Subregion	"22,872"
Melanesia	"32,305"
Micronesia	"16,469"
Polynesia	"35,194"
"Oceania, n.e.c."	241
Americas:	"16,916,416"
Latin America:	"16,086,974"
Caribbean:	"2,953,066"
Barbados	"52,172"
Cuba	"872,716"
Dominican Republic	"687,677"
Haiti	"419,317"
Jamaica	"553,827"
Trinidad and Tobago	"197,398"
Other Caribbean	"169,959"
Central America:	"11,203,637"
Mexico	"9,177,487"
Other Central America:	"2,026,150"
Costa Rica	"71,870"
El Salvador	"817,336"
Guatemala	"480,665"
Honduras	"282,852"
Nicaragua	"220,335"
Panama	"105,177"
Other Central America	"47,915"
South America:	"1,930,271"
Argentina	"125,218"
Bolivia	"53,278"
Brazil	"212,428"
Chile	"80,804"
Colombia	"509,872"
Ecuador	"298,626"
Guyana	"211,189"
Peru	"278,186"
Venezuela	"107,031"
Other South America	"53,639"
Northern America:	"829,442"
Canada	"820,771"
Other Northern America	"8,671"
Born at sea	316

"Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000."