Geography of Delaware

In the 2003 census, there were 865,438+07 people and 4,965,438+0 people in Delaware. Among them, whites account for 72.5%, Africans account for 19.2%, Hispanics account for 4.8%, Asians account for 2. 1%, aborigines account for 0.3%, and mixed-race accounts for 1.7%.

In 2006, the population was 853,476, ranking 46th among 50 states. The population in 2007 was 865,000. The population of 20 12 is 9 17092. In ancient times, Delaware was mixed with many nationalities. The earliest immigrants were Swedes, Finns, Dutch, Africans and British.

After 17 15, a large number of Irish people settled here. After the War of Independence, some French people moved from the West Indies and France to Newcastle and Wilmington.

By the19th century, Germans, Italians, Poles, Jews, Russians and Scandinavians had successively settled here. About half of the black immigrants in Wilmington.

Among the ancestors of Delaware residents, African descent (19.2%) is the most, followed by Irish descent (16.6%), German descent (14.3%) and British descent (12. 1%).