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Swedish Americans are Americans of Swedish descent especially the descendants of about 1.2 million immigrants from Sweden during 1885–1915. Most were Lutherans who were affiliated with predecessor bodies of what are now the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) or Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod or North American Lutheran Church (NALC); some were Methodists.Historically Swedish Americans are concentrated in the Midwest roughly in the area west and northwest of Chicago.

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language
American English, Swedish language
population place
Minnesota, Midwestern United States
related
Swedish Canadian, Icelandic American, Danish American, Swedes in the United Kingdom, Norwegian American, Scandinavian American, Swedish Australian, Swedes
religion
Mormonism, Lutheranism, Atheism, Church of Sweden, Catholicism, Protestantism
total population
1, 4347703

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