03 AUGUST 2019 - ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA: A woman tries on Hmong style skirt in the market at Hmongtown Marketplace. Thousands of Hmong people, originally from the mountains of central Laos, settled in the Twin Cities in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Most were refugees displaced by the American war in Southeast Asia. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, there are now 66,000 ethnic Hmong in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, making it the largest urban Hmong population in the world. There are two large Hmong markers in St. Paul. The Hmongtown Marketplace has are more than 125 shops, 11 restaurants, and a farmers' market in the summer. Hmong Village is newer and has more than 250 shops and 17 restaurants.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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