إذا كنت تفكر في تورونتو, you wouldn’t be wrong.

و تورونتو منطقة العاصمة, مع سكان المنطقة من أكثر من 5 مليون, هي موطن لحوالي 2.3 مليون شخص الذين ولدوا خارج كندا.

But you might be surprised to learn that the Vancouver suburb of ريتشموند is the city with the highest percentage of immigrant residents.

According to Richmond’s most recent census (2006), “Immigrants make up 57.4% of the city’s population, which is the highest proportion of any municipality in Canada.” The immigrant population of Greater Toronto is just under 50% of the region’s total population.

أكثر من 80 percent of immigrants to Richmond come from Asia والشرق الأوسط, particularly China (26.8%) وهونغ كونغ (23%). ما يزيد قليلا 10 percent come from Europe (especially the UK), with another five percent hailing from the Americas or elsewhere in the world.

ومن المثير للاهتمام, a significant majority of Richmond’s immigrants have been in Canada long enough to have been granted Canadian citizenship. أكثر من 86% of Richmond residents are Canadian citizens.

في جميع أنحاء كندا, حول 20 percent of Canadian residents were born outside the country, approximately one out of every five people. في الولايات المتحدة, في المقابل, immigrants make up only about 12 percent of the population.

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