FREDERICK, Md. (AP) - Officials say Frederick County is seeing an influx of Asian immigrants with a population that has grown to more than 10,000 people.

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Elizabeth Chung, executive director of the Asian American Center of Frederick, tells WTOP Radio that there are significant populations of Indian, Korean and Chinese immigrants (http://bit.ly/y0km0t ).

Chung says the biggest draw for immigrants moving to Frederick County is cost of living.

She says residents are moving to the county in a secondary migration from Montgomery, Prince George's and Baltimore counties.

Interestingly, Myanmar also is supplying a large influx of immigrants to the county.

That country is also known as Burma.

Information from: http://www.wtop.com