Если вы догадались Торонто, you wouldn’t be wrong.

The Торонто metropolitan area, with a regional population of more than 5 млн, является домом для примерно 2.3 million people who were born outside of Canada.

But you might be surprised to learn that the Vancouver suburb of Ричмонд 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.

Более 80 percent of immigrants to Richmond come from Asia и на Ближнем Востоке, particularly China (26.8%) и Гонконг (23%). Чуть более 10 percent come from Europe (especially the UK), with another five percent hailing from the Americas or elsewhere in the world.

Интересно, a significant majority of Richmond’s immigrants have been in Canada long enough to have been granted Canadian citizenship. Более 86% of Richmond residents are Canadian citizens.

Через Канаде, об этом 20 percent of Canadian residents were born outside the country, approximately one out of every five people. В патенте США N, in contrast, immigrants make up only about 12 percent of the population.

Фото © Carolyn B. Хеллер