Alternative Names
Vietnamese-Canadians, Viet, Nguoi Kinh, Viet Kieu (Overseas Vietnamese), Sino-Vietnamese (Chinese from Vietnam), Khmer Krom (Khmer from Vietnam), Indochinese.
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Canada is a North American country characterized by its vastness (it is the second-largest country in the world) and by the fact that 90% of its population (estimated at 31,485,000 inhabitants in fall 2002) live within 250 km (150 miles) of its southern border with the United States. The climate is rather harsh, with long and cold winters, except on the Pacific Coast.
Canada is multicultural. Besides Indian, Métis, and Inuit (Eskimo) aboriginal populations, which account for about 2.5% of the total, it includes a majority of citizens of various European, Asian, West Indian, Latin American, African, and other ancestries (nonaboriginal settlement started as early as 1604). In 2001, some 5,500,000 Canadian citizens and permanent residents had been born outside Canada. The country has two official...
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Dorais, LJ. (2005). Vietnamese in Canada. In: Ember, M., Ember, C.R., Skoggard, I. (eds) Encyclopedia of Diasporas. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-29904-4_117
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