United States
Kurds in United States: a history
Nashville’s ‘Little Kurdistan’ grew from refugee resettlement in 1976, 1991 to 1992 and 1996 to 1997, after the Iraqi Kurdish exoduses. Kurds also live in San Diego, Dallas and Washington DC. The Kurdish Heritage Foundation of America worked in Brooklyn from 1981 to 2011.
01Waves
- 1976 and 1990s Iraqi Kurdish refugees
- 2000s to 2010s
02Figures
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about 25,000 (census, secondary) to 50,000 (Institut kurde de Paris)
mixed, 2020
Wikipedia: Kurdish Americans; IKP To verify
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15,000 to 20,000
community estimate, Nashville, 2023
WPLN, 2025 Secondary source