| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Continental United States, smaller populations inAlaska andHawaii | |
| Languages | |
| American English Chinese,Japanese,Korean,Mongolian,Ryukyuan,Tibetan, otherEast Asian languages | |
| Religion | |
| MainlyBuddhism,Christianity,Shinto, andTaoism |
East Asian Americans areAmericans ofEast Asian ancestry. The term refers to those who can trace back their heritage to East Asia, which includes the countries ofChina,Japan,Mongolia,North Korea,South Korea, andTaiwan.[1][2] In theUnited States census, they are a subcategory ofAsian Americans, although individual racial classification is based on self-identification and the categorization is "not an attempt to define race biologically, linguistically, anthropologically, or genetically".[3]