One major reason is due to population size - Texas has the second-largest population of any state, trailing only California.
Philadelphia is home to the second-largest Jamaican population of any city in the United States.
It has the world's second-largest population of Muslims.
(India has the world's second-largest Muslim population, at 150 million.)
They added what was initially the second-largest population grouping to the young nation, and their labour developed previously underdeveloped plantation lands.
The 1911 census found 4,480 Indians in the country, making them 21% of the total foreign population and the second-largest foreign population after the French.
After Israel, it is home to the second-largest Jewish population in the Middle East.
The island's waters are also home to the planet's second-largest population of dugong, a large marine mammal that is globally threatened.
France has the second-largest Jewish population in Europe, after the Soviet Union.
That would make the department the largest in the state, though New Haven has the state's second-largest population, after Bridgeport.
