Los Angeles is second to New York in terms of population, however the combined population of Malay in Los Angeles and San Francisco is equal to New York. Los Angeles is home to the largest percentage of Taiwanese Americans in the country. California possesses the largest Thai population outside of Asia, and is the only state in the country that has a designated "Thai Town," which is also the first of its kind globally. Of the 5.6 million Asian people in California, approximately 68,000 are Thai, which is 28.5% of the entire Thai population in the United States. Totally (647,589, 1.7%) Vietnamese in California . San Jose is 10% Vietnamese, and the San Francisco Bay Area has a sizable Vietnamese population. Orange County has a large Vietnamese population, with much of the population in Garden Grove. This is a list of notable people of Asian descent who were either born, raised, or spent a significant amount of time in their formative years in California.