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Philadelphia County

Home to one of the oldest and most documented Arab-American communities in the U.S., rooted in South Philadelphia's Lebanese-American Maronite Catholic parish (St. Maron's, since the 1880s) and the Al-Aqsa mosque founded by Palestinian immigrants in Kensington, alongside a newer Levantine and North African restaurant scene in Fox Chase and Northeast Philadelphia.

Arab ancestry (ACS est.)

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Arabic spoken at home

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Limited English proficiency share

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Dominant dialect profile

Historic Lebanese and Palestinian-American community (one of the oldest in the U.S.), concentrated in South Philadelphia and Fox Chase, alongside a smaller and more recently arrived Syrian, Egyptian, Yemeni, Tunisian, and Jordanian population