Can you name the most prevalent countries of origin of foreign-born residents of California?

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California Foreign-Born Population Quiz

by leonidas_300

Created Oct 1, 2010 in Geography
Featured May 15, 2012
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	WyattsTorch:	May 15th, 2012 at 15:16 GMT	40 points
	Major Asian countries? Check. Major Spanish speaking countries? Check. Major population centers? Check. Armenia...WTF?

	BoL:	May 15th, 2012 at 15:27 GMT	12 points
	Great quiz. Having live in SoCal for a number of years, this was fun. Lots of Armenians around Pasadena. Lots of Iranians around Irvine. Lots of everybody else everywhere else. Great quiz.

	Danman4pres:	May 15th, 2012 at 15:51 GMT	5 points
	I just started randomly guessing countries after going through the obvious and I happen to stumble upon...Armenia??? Porque?

	DoctorPedantic:	May 15th, 2012 at 15:55 GMT	15 points
	@WyattsTorch: Clearly, you've never been to Glendale. Businesses close down for the Day of Remembrance (of the genocide by the Turks), and the school district's Winter Break starts just before Western Christmas so the kids are still out of school for Eastern Christmas, as celebrated by the Armenian community. I was suprised that Armenia wasn't much higher on the list.

	DerekH:	May 15th, 2012 at 15:57 GMT	-4 points
	But... apart from 133,000 of them, they're all foreign-born... ;-)

	Eric7272:	May 15th, 2012 at 15:59 GMT	35 points
	Hey Danman4pres...of course Armenia would be there. The Kardashians are Armenian, they live in California, and there are a few thousand of them, right? LOL

	barnztormre:	May 15th, 2012 at 16:25 GMT	7 points
	Hmmmm....red and green, however did you come up with that color scheme? :D

	RonB:	May 15th, 2012 at 16:58 GMT	3 points
	Joe Mannix was Armenian. Didn't know they were still coming over. Surprised Peru made it.

	qtowndogg:	May 15th, 2012 at 17:01 GMT	6 points
	Anyone who doesn't get number one must not know much about North American geography at all.

	arcad:	May 15th, 2012 at 17:24 GMT	1 point
	@jshorne, the civil war is over, you guys lost!!!

	guepart:	May 15th, 2012 at 17:30 GMT	1 point
	I got peru and armenia, but forgot philippines...

	uphillrunner:	May 15th, 2012 at 17:31 GMT	8 points
	Once again, Ireland has gone for quality over quantity :)

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	Tlor6:	May 15th, 2012 at 18:16 GMT	1 point
	Our across the street neighbors were from El Salvador they packed up and moved 2 months ago, they said they have 2 houses and the taxes are lower it was cheaper to go home. We are from Northern California so I only missed 2 not bad for me I guess I do pay attention to my neighbors :)

	DashDixon:	May 15th, 2012 at 18:17 GMT	-1 points
	@uphillrunner: Bragging-rights wise, that seems pretty small potatoes, though, yeah? Had your progenitors been uncannily savvy, they might have swapped spuds for nuggets 165 years ago, and Cali would be under benevolent Irish control today.

	yellowknife:	May 15th, 2012 at 18:27 GMT	-1 points
	I find it ironic that the 3 most populated us states are border states. Can we have Texas next (mexico is probably number one there too)

	yourmomftw:	May 15th, 2012 at 18:51 GMT	8 points
	As a Californian who is the child of two foreign-born parents who are part of #2 of this list, I loved this quiz. Being a California definitely helped. All I had to remember was all the foreign food places I've been to in the LA area lol

	ElCanguro:	May 15th, 2012 at 18:52 GMT	1 point
	11.3% remembered the Kardashians whilst taking this quiz.

	McBeergio:	May 15th, 2012 at 19:25 GMT	6 points
	Why group the Koreas?

	tulliuscicero:	May 15th, 2012 at 20:01 GMT	5 points
	Much as I hate to proselytize about anything, I'd just like to ask my fellow Americans to look at this list. Next time you bitch about Obama or the Republicans, think of all these people who want to come from all over to live in your country. I feel really proud of the size of this list, and it's just one state.

	Volante:	May 15th, 2012 at 20:44 GMT	4 points
	I was more surprised about Iran than Armenia when the answers were revealed. One of CA's former governors, George Deukmejian, is of Armenian heritage. Kirk Kerkorian can also make that heritage claim.

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