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Persons from North Africa have been in the United States since the sixteenth century. Some of the early explorers who accompanied the Spanish on their expeditions in the United States were North Africans, a group that also contributed to the settlement of some Spanish colonies of that country. Currently, the North African population in the United States exceeds 800,000 people. Its largest populations are found in the eastern United States.<ref name="everyculture: Egyptian">[http://www.everyculture.com/multi/Du-Ha/Egyptian-Americans.html Egyptian Americans by Mona Mikhail]</ref>
 
North Africans in the U.S. can be of [[Moroccan people|Moroccan]], [[Demographics of Algeria|Algerian]], [[Tunisian people|Tunisian]], [[Libyan people|Libyan]], [[Egyptians]], [[Sahrawi people|Sahrawi]], [[Demographics of Mauritania|Mauritanian]] and [[Demographics of Sudan|northern Sudanese]] origin. Sometimes [[Canarian people|Canarians]] are also included in this group, because of the geographical location of the [[Canary Islands]] in North Africa, and the partly North African ancestry of their population (the Canarians are generally of predominant European ancestry with some Berber extract) are also considered North Africans (although politically are Europeans, and linguistically, being Spanish, Hispanics). Although according to the 2000 census there were 3,217 North Africans in the country, the number of people who indicated some North African specific origin exceeded with many this figure (the Marocco American, per example were more of 37.000 people in the same census). As of 2008, there were over 800,000 North Africans in the United States hailing from North Africa's the various native ethnics groups.
 
Most North Africans are descedents of Afro-Asiatics. Most of these populations belong to the E1b1b paternal haplogroup, with Berber speakers having among the highest frequencies of this lineage. Additionally, genomic analysis has found that Berber and other Maghreb communities are defined by a shared ancestral component. This Maghrebi element peaks among Tunisian Berbers. It is related to the Coptic/Ethio-Somali, having diverged from these and other West Eurasian-affiliated components prior to the Holocene people with origins from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. Other North Africans are Arabs, which is a term that denotes the inhabitants of the North African Maghreb region whose native language is a dialect of Arabic and identify as Arab. This ethnic identity is a product of the Arab conquest of North Africa during the Arab–Byzantine wars and the spread of Islam to Africa.
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