Somali Americans are American citizens and residents born in, or with ancestors from Somalia.

The first Somalis to arrive in the United States were sailors who came in the 1920s and settled in New York.[2] In the late 1970s, more Somali immigrants followed suit. However, it was not until the 1990s when the Somali Civil War broke out that the majority of Somalis first arrived in the US.

The Somali community in the United States is the seventh largest in the world behind those of Somalia, Ethiopia, Yemen, Kenya, Djibouti, the Middle East, the United Kingdom and Canada, respectively.

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