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Originally Posted by SpongeG
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Bold claim about being "the most Asian city in North America." I suppose it squeaks by by a hair's breadth over Markham, little more than a rounding error, but you could argue that Markham's larger raw numbers in a still comparatively-sized city and the fact that it has the largest Asian mall outside of Asia give it the edge. Either way, it would have been more accurate to call Richmond "one of the most Asian cities in North America."
Markham population 2016: 328,966
Asian population: 230,680
Asian percentage: 70.1% (tallying up percentages comes to 70.4%)
https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-r...TABID=1&type=1
Richmond population 2016: 198,309
Asian population: 140,535
Asian percentage: 70.9% (tallying up percentages comes to 71.5%)
https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-r...TABID=1&type=1