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The following is an incomplete list of ethnic groups.

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Name Country Population Notes
Abazins  Russia (Karachay-Cherkessia, Adygea),  Turkey,  Armenia 190,000
Abenaki  Canada (Quebec, Nova Scotia),  United States (Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine) 12,000 Native Americans
Abipones  Argentina extinct
Abkhazs  Georgia,  Turkey,  Russia,  Abkhazia ~200,000 – 600,000
Aboriginal Australians  Australia 550,000 Indigenous people of Australia
Abron  Ghana,  Côte d'Ivoire 1,200,000
Acadians  Canada (Canadian Maritimes),  United States (Madawaska, Maine) 500,000 French-Canadians
Accohannock  United States (Maryland) Native Americans
Achang  China (Yunnan) 29,000
Acehnese  Indonesia 1,200,000
Acholi  Uganda 1,200,000 Luo people
Achomawi  United States (California) 1,500 band of the Pit River tribe of Native Americans
Acoma  United States (southwest),  Mexico 5,000 Native Americans
Adi  India (Arunachal Pradesh)
Adyghe  Russia (North Caucasus region),  Turkey ~600,000
Aeta  Philippines
Algerian American  United States 8.000
Afar  Ethiopia,  Eritrea,  Djibouti ~5,000,000 Also known as Danakil
African-American  United States 43,884,130 citizens of the United States descended from West African slaves or otherwise of African ancestry. Are the world's largest stateless ethnical minority group; And stateless, not because they dont have a state, but because they dont have knowledge of which African state to identify with per mental conditioning via colonizers from Europe.
African Canadian  Canada 800,000 may include West Indian and Afro-Caribbean people in Canada
African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem  Israel ~5,000 an ethnic minority of black people in Israel
Afrikaners  South Africa 3,600,000 South Africans of mostly Dutch ancestry, but also including the descendants of French Huguenot and German Protestant refugees, who intermarried with Dutch settlers and adopted Afrikaans as their mother tongue
Afro Argentine  Argentina Afro-American people of the Americas, Afro-Latin American
Afro Bolivian  Bolivia Afro-American people of the Americas, Afro-Latin American
Afro Brazilian  Brazil Afro-American people of the Americas, Afro-Latin American
Afro-Chilean  Chile Afro-American people of the Americas, Afro-Latin American
Afro-Colombian  Colombia Afro-American people of the Americas, Afro-Latin American
Afro-Costa Rican  Costa Rica Afro-American people of the Americas, Afro-Latin American
Afro-Cuban  Cuba Afro-American people of the Americas, Afro-Latin American
Afro-Dominican  Dominican Republic Afro-American people of the Americas, Afro-Latin American
Afro-Ecuadorian people  Ecuador Afro-American people of the Americas, Afro-Latin American
Afro-Guyanese  Guyana Afro-American people of the Americas
Afro-Jamaican  Jamaica Afro-American people of the Americas
Afro-Mexican  Mexico Afro-American people of the Americas, Afro-Latin American
Afro-Peruvian  Peru Afro-American people of the Americas, Afro-Latin American
Afro-Portuguese  Portugal 150,000 residents or citizens of Portugal of Black-African descent
Afro-Puerto Rican  Puerto Rico Afro-American people of the Americas, Afro-Latin American
Afro-Trinidadian  Trinidad and Tobago Afro-American people of the Americas
Afro-Uruguayan  Uruguay Afro-American people of the Americas, Afro-Latin American
Aftsarians or Isaurians  Turkey
Agaw  Ethiopia,  Eritrea
Agni or Anyi people  Ghana,  Ivory Coast,  Sierra Leone
Aguls  Dagestan 30,000
Ahtna  United States (Copper River) 500 Alaska Natives
Aimaq  Afghanistan,  Iran,  Tajikistan 1,600,000
Ainu  Japan,  Russia (Sakhalin Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, Kamchatka Krai) ~25,000 - 200,000 Natives of Hokkaidō, much of Sakhalin, the Kuriles, and at one time northern Honshū, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Amur River basin
Aynu  China different from the Ainu of Japan and Russia
Aja  Benin,  Togo 500,000 part of the Gbe linguistic/cultural group
Aka  Central African Republic,  Congo, Republic of the 30,000
Akie  Tanzania 5,200
Ak Chin  United States (Tohono O'odham reservation, Pinal County, Arizona) Native Americans
Akan  Ghana,  Côte d'Ivoire 20,000,000
Akha  Thailand 450,000
Akuapem  Côte d'Ivoire,  Ghana ~1,000,000
Akhvakh people  Dagestan 8,000
Akyem  Côte d'Ivoire,  Ghana ~4,000,000
Alabama  United States (Oklahoma, Texas) 1,500 Native American people from whom the state takes its name; now sharing a reservation in Texas with the Coushatta
Alak  Laos 4,000
Albanians  Albania,  Kosovo,  Serbia,  Republic of Macedonia,  Montenegro,  Greece,  Turkey,  Italy (Arbereshe) 7,000,000 Balkan people
Albanian American  United States 200,000 United States citizens of full or partial Albanian ancestry
Albanian Australian  Australia 11,000 residents of Australia who are of Albanian ancestry
Aleut  United States (Aleutian Islands),  Russia (Chukotka Autonomous Okrug) 18,000 Alaska Natives
Algonquian  United States (eastern),  Canada Native Americans
Aliutors  Russia (Koryak Autonomous Okrug) ~2,000 - 3,000
Alsatians  France inhabitants of Alsace, France who are of ethnic German origin.
Amahuaca  Bolivia,  Peru 500
Amerasians  Japan,  Korea, Republic of,  Philippines,  Thailand,  Vietnam Children and grandchildren of mixed-race unions of U.S. American servicemen and Asian women, most notably during the Vietnam war era
Americans  United States (North America) 311,591,917
Americo-Liberians  Liberia 150,000 - 200,000 Liberian ethnicity of African American descent
Amhara  Ethiopia 20,000,000 also the Amharic language
Amish  United States (Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, New York),  Canada (Ontario) 250,000 North American religious minority, of German descent
Amungme  Indonesia (Papua province) 13,000
Andalusians  Spain 17,500,000 Latin European people; inhabitants of southern Iberia
Andis  Bosnia and Herzegovina
Anga  Papua New Guinea
Anglo-African  South Africa 2,000,000 White African people of largely British descent who live or come from Sub-Saharan Africa and are Anglophone
Anglo-Burmese  Burma 52,000 mixed-race descendants of Burmese and Anglophone British colonists
Anglo-Celtic Australian  Australia 13,000,000 Majority inhabitants of Australia with mixed English and Celtic (especially Irish and Scottish, but also Welsh and even Cornish and Manx) ancestry
Anglo-Indian  India 125,000 People of mixed Indian and English ancestry, or people of British ancestry living in India
Anglo-Irish  Ireland a term used primarily in the 19th and early 20th centuries to identify a privileged social class in Ireland, whose members were the descendants and successors of the Protestant Ascendancy
Anglo-Norman  United Kingdom mainly the descendants of the Normans who ruled England following the Norman conquest by William the Conqueror in 1066
Anglo-Saxon  United Kingdom Historically, a collective name for the Germanic tribes resident Great Britain since the 5th century, especially prior to the Norman Conquest; Became the largest group to form the English people
Annamites or Vietnamese or Kinh or Jing  Vietnam 77,000,000 Majority ethnic group of Vietnam
Ansar people or Ansarie  Syria,  Lebanon,  Turkey 4,000,000
Anuak  South Sudan,  Ethiopia 350,000
Apaches  United States (Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma) 56,000 Native Americans
Apinaje  Brazil Indigenous people of Brazil.
Appalachian folk culture of the Southeastern United States.
Arab  Arab League 280,000,000 originally from Arabia, now widespread throughout the Middle East and North Africa (see Arabization) and tens of millions of ethnic Arabs live worldwide in diaspora
Arab American  United States 1,680,000 Arab diaspora
Arab Argentine  Argentina ~130,000-350,000 Arab diaspora
Arab Australian  Australia 360,000 Arab diaspora
Arab Brazilian  Brazil 10,000,000-15,000,000 Arab diaspora
Arab Britons  United Kingdom 500,000 Arab diaspora
Arabs in Bulgaria  Bulgaria ~10,000-17,000 Arab diaspora
Arab Canadian  Canada 470,000 Arab diaspora
Arab Chilean  Chile 800,000 Arab diaspora
Arab residents in Côte d'Ivoire  Côte d'Ivoire 100,000 Arab diaspora
Arab Ecuadorians  Ecuador ~20,000 - 97,500 Arab diaspora
Arab Haitian  Haiti 15,000 Arab diaspora
Arabs in France  France 2,500,000 Arab diaspora
Arabs in Germany  Germany ~400,000-500,000 Arab diaspora
Arabs in Greece  Greece 200,000 Arab diaspora
Arab Indonesians  Indonesia 87,000 Arab diaspora
Arabs in Italy  Italy 100,000 Arab diaspora
Arab Mexican  Mexico 1,100,000 Arab diaspora
Arab Dutch  Netherlands 418,000 Arab diaspora
Arabs in Pakistan  Pakistan 10,000 Arab diaspora
Arab Peruvian  Peru 10,000 Arab diaspora
Arab settlement in the Philippines  Philippines ~22,000 Arab diaspora
Arab Singaporean  Singapore 7,000 - 10,000 Arab diaspora
Arab Sri Lankans  Sri Lanka ~200,000 Arab diaspora
Arabs in Sweden  Sweden 10,000 Arab diaspora
Arabs in Turkey  Turkey 800,000 Arab diaspora
Arab Venezuelan  Venezuela 1,600,000 Arab diaspora
Arab diaspora in Colombia  Colombia 84,000 Arab diaspora
Arabs in Afghanistan  Afghanistan 10,000 Arab diaspora
Iranian Arabs  Iran 1,557,000 Arab diaspora
Aramaeans  Syria Aramaic speaking people in Syria
Araon  China
Aragonese  Spain 1,277,471 Inhabitants of Aragon (Iberian Peninsula). One of the nationalities of Spain. Ethnic Aragonese live primarily in Upper Aragon. There are also some Aragonese in the Spanish diaspora.
Arapaho  United States (Colorado, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Nebraska) 5,000 Native American people, formerly inhabiting Colorado and Wyoming, now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming
Arawak  Venezuela,  Guyana,  Suriname,  French Guiana,  Colombia, The Caribbean ~450,000 Indigenous people of the Caribbean
Arbëreshë  Italy 260,000 an Albanian population in Italy
Archis  Dagestan 1,200
Arikara  United States (North Dakota) Native Americans
Armenians  Armenia,  Russia,  Iran,  Georgia,  Azerbaijan,  Turkey 8,000,000 - 12,000,000 natives of Eastern Anatolia
Armenian American  United States 474,559 United States citizens of Armenian ancestry
Aromanians  Greece,  Serbia,  Macedonia,  Albania,  Serbia,  Bulgaria 100,000 - 1,000,000
Arvanites  Greece 50,000 - 200,000 an Albanian-speaking population in Greece
Ashkenazi Jews  Israel A branch of the Jewish diaspora, stemming from the indigenous Hebrew speaking people of the Levant, who settled in Central and later Eastern Europe during the early Middle Ages.
Assyrian people  Assyria 6,000,000 Indigenous Semites of Iraq, South East Turkey and North East Syria
Atoni  East Timor 600,000
Aryans/Indo-Iranians descendants of the Aryans, the ancient inhabitants of the northern Indian subcontinent (excluding Southern India), Central Asia and the Iranian plateau.
Indo-Aryan people  India,  Pakistan,  Bangladesh,  Nepal,  Sri Lanka,  Maldives 1,210,000,000
Iranian people  Iran,  Tajikistan,  Afghanistan,  Pakistan,  Iraq,  Turkey, The Caucasus 160,000,000 - 190,000,000 (the name "Iran" means "Aryan" in Persian)
Asante (Ashanti)  Ghana,  Côte d'Ivoire ~10,000,000
Asheninka  Peru,  Brazil 25,000 - 45,000 Indigenous people of Peru
Asmat  Indonesia (Papua Province) 70,000
Assiniboine  Canada (Alberta, Saskatchewan),  United States (Montana) Native American people of the Sioux
Assyrians  Iraq,  Iran,  Lebanon,  Syria,  Turkey,  Sweden,  United States,  Jordan,  Assyria 3,300,000 - 4,200,000
Asturians  Spain 1,076,896
Atacameno  Chile 2,000 Native Americans
Atta  Philippines [citation needed]
Ati  Philippines 2,000
Atikamekw  Canada (Quebec) 4,500 Native Americans
Atsina  United States (Montana) 3,682 Native American people inhabiting Montana and formerly Saskatchewan
Atsugewi  United States (California) 850 Native Americans
Aukstaitians  Lithuania,  Latvia,  Belarus ~300,000
Austrians[1]  Austria 10,000,000 a German-speaking, Germanic people, native to Austria and South Tyrol (today Italy)
Avars  Dagestan 1,000,000
Awá  Brazil 300 An endangered Amazonian tribe of hunter-gatherers.
Aymaras  Bolivia,  Peru,  Chile ~2,000,000 indigenous ethnic group of Andes and Altiplano
Ayrums  Georgia, Azerbaijan,  Turkey,  Iran
Azerbaijanis  Azerbaijan,  Turkey,  Russia,  Georgia,  Iran 22,000,000 - 35,000,000 People of Turkic-Tatar ethnicity
Aztecs  Mexico 1,500,000 Native North American people, descendants widespread in Mexico (see also Nahuatl)
Ayapaneco  Mexico 2 Indigenous people of Mexico, currently only two persons of this community still speak the Ayapaneco language[2]

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Name Country Population Notes
Babongo  Gabon
Baharna  Bahrain,  Saudi Arabia (Qatif, Al Ahsa) 3,000,000 Indigenous people of Bahrain and Qatif
Badui  Indonesia 5,000 - 8,000
Ba Na  Vietnam 174,456
Baggara  Sudan 1,000,000
Baguirmi  Chad
Bagulals  Dagestan 3,054
Bai  China (Yunnan province) 1,858,063
Bai  South Sudan
Bajau  Indonesia,  Philippines,  Malaysia,  Brunei 401,800 Known as Sea Gypsies, they touch land only to bury their dead
Baka  Cameroon,  Gabon 5,000 - 30,000 Pygmy people of Central Africa
Bakhtiari  Iran
Balinese  Indonesia 3,000,000
Bakongo/Kongo  Congo, Democratic Republic of the,  Angola,  Congo, Republic of the 10,000,000 Majority population of the Republic of the Congo
Balkars  Russia (Kabardino-Balkaria),  Kazakhstan 110,000
Baloch (also Baluch, Balochi)  Pakistan,  Afghanistan,  Iran,  Oman,  United Arab Emirates 9,000,000 traditionally nomadic Muslim people of Balochistan
Baltic Germans  Latvia,  Estonia,  Germany
Bamar (also Burmese and Burman)  Burma,  Thailand,  Singapore 30,000,000 Majority ethnic group of Burma
Bambara  Mali,  Senegal,  Guinea,  Burkina Faso,  Niger 2,700,000 Part of the Manding linguistic/cultural subgroup of the Mandé peoples
Bamileke  Cameroon 4,000,000 Majority inhabitants of Cameroon
Banat Swabians  Romania,  Serbia Ethnic German population of Southeast Europe
Banawa  Brazil 158 Indigenous people
Banda  Central African Republic,  Congo, Democratic Republic of the,  Cameroon,  South Sudan 1,300,000
Bandjabi  Gabon [citation needed]
Banjar  Indonesia,  Malaysia 4,800,000
Bantu Sub-Saharan Africa General label for 300-600 ethnic groups in Africa
Baoule  Côte d'Ivoire Akan people
Bapou [citation needed]
Barakzai  Afghanistan,  Iran,  Pakistan 2,000,000 - 9,000,000 Pashtun people
Bariba  Benin ~1,000,000
Bartangs
Basarwa  Botswana,  Namibia,  South Africa,  Angola 90,000 Indigenous people
Bashkirs  Russia,  Kazakhstan,  Ukraine,  Uzbekistan 2,000,000 Turkic people
Basotho  Lesotho,  South Africa 4,300,000
Basques  Spain,  France 2,600,000 Ethnolinguistically unique pre-Indo European language (Basque language)
Basque Argentine  Argentina 3,000,000 - 3,500,000 Argentine people of Basque ancestry
Basque American  United States 57,793 American people of Basque ancestry
Basque Chilean  Chile 1,600,000 - 4,500,000 Chilean people of Basque descent (10-27% of Chile's population)
Bassa  Liberia 350,000
Bassari  Senegal,  Gambia,  Guinea,  Guinea-Bissau 10,000 - 30,000
Baster (also known as Baaster)  Namibia 25,181 People descended from the offspring of Dutch speaking whites and black Africans, usually found in Southern Africa
Batak  Indonesia 6,000,000
Batak  Philippines Indigenous people
Bateke  Congo, Republic of the,  Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Bats  Georgia 3,000
Batswana  Botswana,  South Africa Largest ethnic group in Botswana
Bavarians  Germany 12,531,925 High German speaking people of Bavaria
Beaver  Canada (British Columbia) 1,000 Former name for the Danezaa people
Bedouins  Saudi Arabia,  Sudan,  Jordan,  Iraq,  Libya,  Egypt,  Israel 8,000,000 - 10,000,000 Traditionally nomadic people
Beja  Sudan,  Eritrea  Egypt Traditionally nomadic people
Belarusians  Belarus 9,000,000 Majority people of Belarus
Bengalis  Bangladesh,  India,  Pakistan,  Saudi Arabia,  United Arab Emirates,  United Kingdom,  South Korea,  Japan 300,000,000
Bengali American  United States 213,000 American people of Bengali ancestry
Bengali Hindus  India,  Bangladesh 85,000,000 Hindus of Bengali ancestry
Bemba  Zambia
Bene Israel  India,  Israel 65,000 Indian Jews of western India
Berbers  Morocco,  Algeria,  Tunisia,  Libya,  Egypt,  Canary Islands
Berom  Nigeria
Betamaribe  Benin
Bethio  Senegal,  Mauritania
Beti-Pahuin  Cameroon,  Congo, Republic of the,  Equatorial Guinea,  Gabon,  São Tomé and Príncipe 3,320,000
Bezhtas  Russia ( Dagestan) 6,198
Bhil (also known as Bheel)  India (central India)
Bhotiya  Bhutan,  Nepal,  India (Sikkim)
Biafada people  Guinea-Bissau,  Senegal,  Gambia
Bicolano  Philippines (Luzon) 5,900,000
Biharis  India,  Pakistan,  Bangladesh 1,200,000
Blackfeet (also known as Blackfoot)  Canada (Alberta),  United States (Montana) 32,000
Black British  United Kingdom 1,500,000
Black Irish  Ireland
Black Indians  United States 182,000 African Americans with Native American ancestry and/or African Americans who were historically assimilated into Native American tribes.
Bouyei (also known as Bo Y and Buyi)  China,  Vietnam 2,900,000
Bodo  India (Assam) 1,200,000
Boere-Afrikaners  South Africa 1,500,000
Bonairean  Bonaire 15,000
Bonan  China (northwest) 17,000
Borinquen  Puerto Rico 0 Indigenous people; Now extinct, but gave the namesake Boricua used among some Puerto Ricans as a self-name.[citation needed]
Bosniaks  Bosnia and Herzegovina 3,000,000 South Slavic people.
Bostonian or the culture of New England States USA.
Botlikhs  Russia 16
Bouganvilleans  Papua New Guinea
Boyar  India South Indian Hindu Telugu speaking community.
Boyko  Ukraine Highlanders or mountain-dwellers.
Bozo  Mali 132,100
Brahmin  India,  Nepal 51,000,000 Members of one of the four varnas (castes) in traditional Hindu societies. 3% of the population of the Indian subcontinent.
Brahui  Pakistan,  Afghanistan,  Iran 2,528,000
Brau  Laos,  Cambodia,  Vietnam 313
Brazilian  Brazil,  Paraguay,  United States,  Japan 192,853,373 All people born in Brazil.
Bretons  France 1,246,798 - 3,120,288
British  United Kingdom 50,366,497 see White British
British American  United States 40,234,652 British diaspora.
British Australian  Australia 20,000,000 British diaspora.
British Canadian  Canada 12,134,745 British diaspora.
British Chileans  Chile 700,000 British diaspora.
British Peruvians  Peru 8,003 British diaspora.
British New Zealander  New Zealand 2,425,278 British diaspora.
Britons  United Kingdom 300,000,000 Ancient Celtic people culturally dominating Great Britain from the Iron Age until the Early Middle Ages. By the 11th century their descendants had split into different groups not accumulating again until the 1707 act of union, has many ethnic sub-groups. Diaspora now covers the world, particularly prominent in anglophone countries (in the "European" populations).
Brooklynese or culture of New York City, USA named after its borough Brooklyn.
Brulé  United States (Nebraska, South Dakota) Native American Sioux peoples.
Bru-Van Kieu  Vietnam,  Laos,  Cambodia 129,559
Bubi  Equatorial Guinea 64,000
Budukhs  Azerbaijan 1,000
Bugis  Indonesia,  Malaysia 6,000,000
Bulang  China (Yunnan province),  Burma,  Thailand 92,000
Bulgarians  Bulgaria 9,000,000 - 10,000,000
Bulgars  Ukraine,  Azerbaijan,  Russia,  Bulgaria, 0 Extinct; Predecessors of Tatars and modern-day Bulgarians.
Bunjevci  Serbia,  Hungary 21,512
Burgenland Croats  Austria 50,000 Ethnic Croats in the Austrian state of Burgenland.
Buryats  Russia,  Mongolia 500,000
Bushongo  Congo, Democratic Republic of the

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Name Country Population Notes
Caddo  United States (Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas) 5,757 Native American peoples.
Cahuilla  United States (California) 1,276 Native American peoples.
Caingang  Brazil (São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul) Native American peoples.
Cajun  United States (Louisiana) 488,549 French-Americans in Louisiana. See also Acadian.
Caldoche  New Caledonia French people of New Caledonia; largest French national colony outside of France.
Californio  United States (California),  Mexico (Alta California) 300,000 - 500,000 Spanish-speaking inhabitants of the colonial Spanish/Mexican California and their descendants.
Cambodians  Cambodia ~13,000,000
Campa  Bolivia 25,000 - 45,000
Canaanites  Lebanon,  Israel 0 Ancient people, unclear who their descendants are.
Canadians  Canada 34,960,000
Canarians  Canary Islands 1,547,611 Berber based ethnic group.
Cantonese  China 66,000,000 Subgroup of Han chinese, people whose ancestral home is in Guangdong. Also called Yue. They form a significant proportion of Overseas Chinese.
Cape Coloured  South Africa,  Namibia,  Zimbabwe 4,539,790 Mixed-race population of the Western Cape province in South Africa.
Cape Malay  South Africa 200,000 Population descended from people of the Malay archipelago in the Western Cape province in South Africa.
Castilians  Spain ~6,500,000 Largest ethnic group of Spain, found in the Castile region; Also found in the Spanish diaspora.
Caprivian  Namibia Inhabitants of the Caprivi Strip in northeastern Namibia.
Caribs Caribbean 3,000 Native American peoples of northern South America, the Lesser Antilles, and the east coast of Central America.
Carinthian Slovenes  Austria
Caripuna [citation needed]
Cascadian, members of the Cascadia (independence movement) belong to a culture of the Northwestern USA.
Catalans  Spain,  France,  Andorra 8,000,000 Also found in the Catalan-speaking diaspora around the world.
Catawba  United States (North Carolina, South Carolina) 2,600 Native American peoples.
Cayuga  United States (New York, Oklahoma),  Canada (Ontario) 86,000 Native American peoples.
Cayuse  United States (Oregon, Washington) 0 Native American peoples.
Cebuano  Philippines 20,000,000 Also known as Cebu.
Celts  Ireland,  United Kingdom,  France (Brittany) 0 Ethno-linguistic group of tribal societies in Iron Age and Medieval Europe.
Ceylon Moors  Sri Lanka 1,800,000 People of Arab descent living in Sri Lanka.
Chagga  Tanzania 2,000,000 People of Bantu descent (Niger-Congo-B) living in Kilimanjaro Region in Tanzania.
Cham  Cambodia,  Vietnam 400,000 People of Indonesian descent living in Cambodia and central Vietnam.
Chambri  Papua New Guinea
Chamalals  Russia (Dagestan) 5,000
Chamorro  Guam,  Northern Mariana Islands 177,000 Indigenous peoples.
Champenois-speaking people of Champagne-Ardenne of Northeastern France.
Charrúa  Uruguay,  Brazil 0 Indigenous peoples; Now extinct.
Chechens  Russia (Chechnya) 1,700,000
Chehalis  United States (Washington) 691 Native American peoples.
Chemehuevi  United States (Arizona, California) 600 Native American peoples.
Chepang  Nepal 52,237
Cherokee  United States (North Carolina, Oklahoma) 316,049 Native American people originally of eastern and central Tennessee, most of Kentucky, southern West Virginia, western Virginia, northern Georgia (USA), northern Alabama, northwestern South Carolina, and western North Carolina, now mostly living in Oklahoma and North Carolina.
Cheyenne  United States (Montana, Oklahoma) 15,672 Native American peoples.
Chicanos  United States 31,689,000 United States citizens of Mexican origin. While some Mexican-Americans may embrace the term "Chicano", others prefer to identify themselves differently.
Chickahominy  United States (Virginia) 972 Native American people.
Chickasaw  United States 38,000,000 Native American people formerly of northeast Mississippi, west Tennessee, and northwest Alabama, now living in Oklahoma.
Chilcotin  Canada (British Columbia) Native American peoples.
Chileans  Chile 17,094,275
Chilean American  United States 113,934 Chilean diaspora of the United States.
Chilean Australian  Australia 33,626 Chilean diaspora of Australia.
Chilean Swedes  Sweden 42,396 Chilean diaspora of Sweden.
Chimakum  United States (Washington) 0 Native America peoples. Now extinct.
Chinese  China 1,310,158,851 Also known as Han or Han Chinese. Dominant ethnic group of the People's Republic of China.
Chinese American  United States 3,376,031 Chinese diaspora of the United States.
Chinese Australian  Australia 1,185,000 Chinese diaspora of Australia.
Chinese Brazilian  Brazil 151,649 Chinese diaspora of Brazil.
Chinese Canadian  Canada 1,364,215 Chinese diaspora of Canada.
British Chinese  United Kingdom 296,623 Chinese diaspora of the United Kingdom.
Ethnic Chinese in Brunei  Brunei 43,000 Chinese diaspora of Brunei.
Chinese people in Bulgaria  Bulgaria 10,000 Chinese diaspora of Bulgaria.
Burmese Chinese  Burma 1,637,540 Chinese diaspora of Burma.
Chinese Cambodian  Cambodia 1,180,000 Chinese diaspora of Cambodia
Chinese people in Chile  Chile 10,000 Chinese diaspora of Chile.
Chinese-Costa Rican  Costa Rica 45,000 Chinese diaspora of Costa Rica.
Chinese Cuban  Cuba 114,240 Chinese diaspora of Cuba.
Chinese in Fiji  Fiji 8,000 Chinese diaspora of Fiji.
Chinese Filipino  Philippines 1,146,250 Chinese diaspora of the Philippines.
Chinese diaspora in France  France 230,515 Chinese diaspora of France.
Chinese Indonesian  Indonesia 8,800,000 Chinese diaspora of Indonesia.
Chinese people in Italy  Italy 162,000 Chinese diaspora of Italy.
Chinese Jamaican  Jamaica 22,000 Chinese diaspora of Jamaica.
Chinese people in Japan  Japan 655,377 Chinese diaspora of Japan.
Ethnic Chinese in Korea  South Korea,  North Korea 706,861 Chinese diaspora of the Korean Peninsula.
Laotian Chinese  Laos 185,765 Chinese diaspora of Laos.
Malaysian Chinese  Malaysia 6,590,500 Chinese diaspora of Malaysia.
Chinese Mauritian  Mauritius 38,500 Chinese diaspora of Mauritius.
Chinese Mexican  Mexico 23,000 Chinese diaspora of Mexico.
Ethnic Chinese in Mongolia  Mongolia 40,000 Chinese diaspora of Mongolia.
Chinese New Zealander  New Zealand 147,510 Chinese diaspora of New Zealand.
Chinese Nicaraguan  Nicaragua 12,000 Chinese diaspora of Nicaragua.
Ethnic Chinese in Panama  Panama 135,000 Chinese diaspora of Panama.
Chinese Peruvian  Peru 1,300,000 Chinese diaspora of Peru.
Chinese of Romania  Romania 2,243 Chinese diaspora of Romania.
Ethnic Chinese in Russia  Russia 998,000 Chinese diaspora of Russia.
Chinese in Samoa  Samoa,  American Samoa 250 Chinese diaspora of Samoa.
Chinese Singaporean  Singapore 2,808,300 Han Chinese in Singapore; Majority ethnic group of Singapore.
Chinese South Africans  South Africa 350,000 Chinese diaspora of South Africa.
Chinese people in Spain  Spain 197,214 diaspora of Spain.
Thai Chinese  Thailand 7,053,240 Chinese diaspora of Thailand.
Chinese in Tonga  Tonga 3,000 Chinese diaspora of Tonga.
Chinese Trinidadian  Trinidad and Tobago 3,800 Chinese diaspora of Trinidad and Tobago.
Chinookan  United States (Washington, Oregon) Native American peoples.
Chipewyan  Canada 11,000 Native American peoples.
Chippewa  United States (Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Montana),  Canada (Great Lakes) 219,711 Native American peoples.
Chitimacha  United States (Louisiana) 720 Native American peoples.
Chitpavan  India (Maharashtra) 497,000 Smarta Brahmin community of Konkan.
Cho Ro  Vietnam 22,567
Choctaw  United States (Oklahoma, California, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Alabama) 160,000 Native American people of Mississippi and Alabama, now mostly living in Oklahoma and Mississippi.
Chukchansi  United States (California) 2,600 Native American peoples.
Chukchis  Russia (Chukchi Peninsula) 15,767 Indigenous peoples.
Chulym Tatars  Russia (Tomsk Oblast) 656 Turkic peoples.
Chumash  United States (California) 2,000 - 5,000 Native American peoples.
Chuncho  Peru Indigenous peoples.
Chut  Vietnam (Quang Binh province) 3,829
Chuukese people  Federated States of Micronesia 53,280
Chuvash  Russia 2,000,000 Turkic peoples.
Ciboney  Cuba 0 Indigenous peoples; Now extinct.
Circassians or Cherkezians  Russia,  Turkey 7,000,000 - 9,000,000 See also Adyghe.
Clayoquot  Canada (Vancouver, British Columbia) 618 Native American peoples.
Co people [citation needed]
Coalhuiltec Native American peoples.
Co Ho people  Vietnam
Co Lao [citation needed]
Co Tu people  Vietnam (Thừa Thiên -Huế, Quảng Nam) 61,588
Coast Salish  United States (Washington, Oregon),  Canada (British Columbia) ~18,000 Native American peoples.
Cochiti  United States (Southwestern) Native American peoples.
Cocopah  United States (Arizona),  Mexico (Baja California and Sonora) 891 Native American peoples.
Coeur d'Alene  United States (Rocky Mountains and Columbian Plateau) 2,000 Native American peoples.
Coharie  United States (North Carolina) 2,632 Native American peoples.
Colchians or Kolchians  Georgia 0 Ancient Mingrelians-Lazs who inhabited the west and southwest of the Transcaucasus region in prehistoric and historic times.
Colombians  Colombia 50,000,000
Coloured  South Africa,  Namibia,  Zimbabwe 4,539,790 Mixed-race inhabitants of South Africa. See also Cape Coloured.
Colville  United States (Washington) ~322 Native American peoples; One of the Salish tribes.
Comanche  United States (Oklahoma, Texas, California, New Mexico) 14,700 Native American peoples.
Comorian  Comoros 798,000
Cong  Laos,  Thailand,  Vietnam 40,000 See also Phunoi.
Congolese people  Republic of the Congo,  Democratic Republic of the Congo
Copper Native American peoples.
Copt  Egypt 10,000,000 - 20,000,000 Christian ethnoreligious group in Egypt.
Coquille  United States (Oregon) Native American peoples.
Corsicans  Corsica 290,000
Cornish  United Kingdom 534,300 British people originating in Cornwall and the South West of Great Britain.
Cornish American  United States 1,000,000 - 2,500,000 Cornish diaspora in the United States.
Cornish Australian  Australia 1,000,000 Cornish diaspora in Australia.
Cossack  Russia,  Ukraine 2,500,000 - 7,000,000 Predominantly East Slavic people inhabiting the lower Dnieper and Don basins.
Costanoan  United States (California) 1,500 - 2,000 Native American peoples; One of the Mission Indian peoples.
Coushatta  United States (Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma) 1,520 Native American peoples. See also Alabama.
Cowichan  Canada (Vancouver Island, British Columbia) 4,000 Native American peoples.
Cowlitz  United States (Washington) Native American peoples; One of the Salish peoples.
Cree  United States,  Canada 200,000 Native American peoples.
Creek  United States (Alabama, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas) 71,502 Native American people originally of Alabama but now mostly residing in Oklahoma.
Créole  United States People of Iberian or French ancestry in the Americas, or people of mixed Native American and European ancestry in Alaska. See Louisiana Creole people.
Creole Belizean  Belize People of mixed European ancestry in Belize. See Belizean Creole.
Crimean Germans  Ukraine (Crimea) 3,000 Crimean people of German origin.
Crimean Goths  Ukraine (Crimea) Gothic tribes who remained in the lands around the Black Sea, especially in Crimea. Almost no signs of the Crimean Goths exist today.
Crimean Tatars  Ukraine 248,200 Turkic people of Crimea.
Croats  Croatia,  Bosnia and Herzegovina 4,462,171 South Slavic peoples.
Croatian American  United States 420,763 Croatian diaspora in the United States.
Croatian Australian  Australia 126,264 Croatian diaspora in Australia.
Croatian Brazilian  Brazil 45,000 Croatian diaspora in Brazil.
Croatian Canadians  Canada 110,880 Croatian diaspora in Canada.
Croatian Chileans  Chile 380,000 Croatian diaspora in Chile.
Croatian Peruvians  Peru 6,000 Croatian diaspora in Peru.
Crow  United States (Montana) 12,000 Native American peoples; One of the Sioux peoples.
Cubans  Cuba 11,247,925
Cuban Americans  United States 1,094,811 Cuban diaspora in the United States.
Cumans Eastern Europe, Caucasus 0 Historic nomadic Turkic peoples.
Cupeño  United States (California) 1,000 Native American peoples.
Curaçaoan  Curaçao 142,180
Greek Cypriots  Cyprus 1,150,000 Ethnic Greek population in Cyprus.
Czechs  Czech Republic 10,000,000 Slavic people of central Europe, consisting of Bohemians and Moravians.
Czech American  United States 1,462,000 Czech diaspora in the United States.
Czechs in the United Kingdom  United Kingdom 30,000 – 90,000 Czech diaspora in the United Kingdom.
Czech Canadian  Canada 98,090 Czech diaspora in Canada.

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Name Country Population Notes
Daasanach  Ethiopia 48,067
Dadhich
Dai (Thai, Thai Lue)  China,  Laos,  Thailand 1,500,000 - 2,000,000
Dakelh  Canada (British Columbia) First Nations people, one of the Athabaskan group of peoples.
Dakota  United States,  Canada 170,110 Autonym of the Santee Sioux, sometimes applied to all Sioux.
Damara Namibia 100,000
Danes  Denmark 4,996,980 Germanic people of Scandinavia.
Danish American  United States 1,430,897 Danes diaspora in the United States.
Danish Australian  Australia 50,413 Danes diaspora in Australia.
Danish Canadian  Canada 200,035 Danes diaspora in Canada.
Danmin
Darhad
Dargins  Dagestan 591,000
Daribi  Papua New Guinea
Daur  China 132,394
Dayaks  Indonesia 2,000,000 - 4,000,000
De'ang  Burma,  China,  Thailand 557,000
Deg Hit'an  United States (Alaska) Native American peoples.
Degar  Vietnam 1,000,000 Indigenous people of the Central Highlands.
Delaware  United States,  Canada 16,000 Native American peoples.
Dena'ina  United States, (Alaska) 1,400 Athabascan people, also known as the Tanaina.
Dendi  Benin
Derbish
Desana  Colombia
Dhivehis  Maldives,  India (Lakshadweep) 400,000 Indo-Aryan people native to the Maldives.
Dhodia  India
Didos  Russia 15,256 Also known as Tsez.
Diegueno  United States (California),  Mexico (Baja California) 3,000 - 3,200 Native American peoples.
Dinka  South Sudan 5,000,000
Diola  Senegal,  Gambia,  Guinea-Bissau 500,000
Dogon  Mali,  Burkina Faso 400,000 - 800,000
Dolgans  Russia 7,261
Dom  India,  Bangladesh 100,000 - 1,000,000 A Dalit or untouchable caste of India.
Doma  Zimbabwe
Dominicans  Dominican Republic 10,090,000
Dominican American  United States 1,414,703 Dominican diaspora in the United States.
Don Cossacks  Russia,  Ukraine 200,000 - 2,000,000
Dong  China 2,960,293
Dongxiang  China 513,805
Dorze  Ethiopia 28,000
Dorians  Greece 0 Subgroup of Greeks in Ancient Greece.
Dravidians  India (Southern India),  Sri Lanka 217,000,000
Drung  China 7,000
Druze  Syria,  Lebanon,  Israel,  Jordan 1,000,000 - 2,500,000 Also a Religion.
Du people
Duala people  Cameroon 400,000
Dungan  Kyrgyzstan,  Kazakhstan 110,000
Dutch  Netherlands 17,228,780 Germanic people of northern Europe.
Dutch American  United States 5,087,191 Dutch diaspora in the United States.
Dutch Australian  Australia 320,000 Dutch diaspora in Australia.
Dutch Brazilian  Brazil 4,434,021 Dutch diaspora in Brazil.
Dutch Canadian  Canada 1,000,000 Dutch diaspora in Canada.
Cape Dutch  South Africa 7,000,000 Dutch diaspora in South Africa.
Dutch New Zealander  New Zealand 100,000 Dutch diaspora in New Zealand.
Dyula  Côte d'Ivoire,  Burkina Faso Also known as Jula. Part of the Manding linguistic/cultural subgroup of the Mandé peoples.

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Name Country Population Notes
Ebira  Nigeria 1,400,000
Ecuadorian  Ecuador 16,500,000
Egyptians  Egypt,  Libya,  United States,  France 88,000,000
Elema  Papua New Guinea
Enets  Russia,  Ukraine 237 Traditionally nomadic Samoyedic people.
Enga  Papua New Guinea
English  United Kingdom 45,265,093 Ethnic group of the UK, and of England, descended from ancient Britons (Celts) as well as Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. Sub-group of British.
English Brazilian  Brazil English diaspora.
English African Africa English diaspora.
English Argentine  Argentina English diaspora.
Enxet  Paraguay 17,000
Eshira  Gabon
Eskimo  Russia (Siberia),  United States (Alaska),  Canada,  Greenland 150,000 See also Inuit and Yupik.
Esselen  United States (California) 0 Often regarded as the first native American tribe to become culturally extinct.
Estonians  Estonia 1,100,000 Finnic people.
Eurasian Avars (Central Asia) 0 An ancient Turkic people who established Avar Khaganate.
European Americans  United States 223,553,265 Citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the original peoples of Europe. Largest ethnic group in the United States.
Europeans  European Union 503,492,041 Citizens of the European Union.
Evens  Russia,  Ukraine 20,000
Evenki  Russia,  China,  Mongolia 67,000
Ewe  Ghana,  Togo Part of the Gbe linguistic/culture group.
Expatriata Americana 3,000,000 - 6,000,000 American diaspora.

F [edit]

Name Country Population Notes
Falasha/Beta Israel  Israel,  Ethiopia 125,000 - 130,000
Falkland Islanders  Falkland Islands,  United Kingdom,  New Zealand,  Australia 3,105
Fante  Ghana,  Côte d'Ivoire ~3,000,000 Akan people.
Faroese  Faroe Islands,  Denmark,  Iceland,  Norway 80,000 - 90,000 Germanic people.
Fars  Iran,  Afghanistan,  Tajikistan,  Uzbekistan,  Pakistan,  Iraq,  United States 81,000,000 Native name for Persians.
Fereydan  Iran 5,000,000 Georgian people who mostly live in the city of Fereydoon Shahr and in the Fereydan region of Iran.
Fernandinos  Equatorial Guinea,  São Tomé and Príncipe
Fijian  Fiji,  New Zealand,  Australia,  United States,  United Kingdom 500,000 Melanesian group, central South Pacific Ocean.
Fir Bolg  Ireland 0 An early race that inhabited the island of Ireland.
Finns  Finland 5,400,000
Finnish American  United States 700,000 Finnish diaspora.
Flemish  Belgium 6,230,000 Dutch-speaking inhabitants of Belgium, found primarily in Flanders.
West Flemings  France (Nord, Pas-de-Calais) 187, 750 Flemish inhabitants of northernmost France.
Florida Crackers, a culture from the state of Florida, USA.
Fon  Benin,  Togo,  Nigeria 3,500,000 Part of the Gbe linguistic/culture group.
Fox  United States (Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska) 4,000 Native Americans of the Midwestern USA. Historically their homelands were in the Great Lakes region. Euro-American colonization and settlement forced resettlement of the people into the American Midwest.
Franco-Mauritian  Mauritius 24,000 People of French origin living in Mauritius.
Franco-Réunionnaise  Réunion People of French origin in Réunion.
Franks Francia 0 Germanic people of northwest Europe who settled in France in the time of the Roman Empire.
Franconians  Germany Inhabitants of the eastern part of former Francia in Germany.
French  France 64,300,000
French American  United States 11,500,000 French diaspora in the United States.
French British  United Kingdom 6,200,000 French diaspora in the United Kingdom.
French Mexican  Mexico 60,000 French diaspora in Mexico.
French Argentine  Argentina 6,800,000 French diaspora in Argentina.
French Chilean  Chile 700,000 French diaspora in Chile.
French Peruvian  Peru 230,000 French diaspora in Peru.
French Canadian  Canada 10,421,365 French-speaking descendants of French colonists in Canada. See also French-speaking Quebecer, Métis and Acadians.
Frisians  Netherlands,  Germany 1,500,000 Germanic peoples native to the "German Bight" along the North Sea.
Fula West Africa and the Sahel as far east as Sudan Also called Fulani or Fulbe).
Fulni-o
Fur  Sudan 744,000

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Name Country Population Notes
Ga  Ghana,  Togo,  United Kingdom,  Germany,  United States,  Canada 1,800,000
Gaddi  India (Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir)
Gaels  Ireland,  Scotland,  Isle of Man,  United States,  Canada 1,690,294 Celtic people originating in Ireland.
Gagauz  Moldova,  Ukraine 240,000 Turkic people.
Galicians  Spain (Galicia) 2,783,100 Also found in other parts of Spain and Latin America in diaspora.
Gaoshan  Taiwan 499,500 Aboriginal people of Taiwan.
Garifuna/Garinagu  Honduras,  Belize,  Guatemala,  Nicaragua 600,000 Central American people of mixed Amerindian and African descent.
Garo  India (Meghalaya),  Bangladesh 2,000,000
Gbaya  Central African Republic,  Cameroon,  Republic of Congo,  Democratic Republic of Congo 970,000
Ge  Brazil (Caribbean coast)
Geba Buru  Indonesia (Buru)
Gelao  China 550,000
Georgian  Georgia 3,956,000
Georgian American  United States 200,000 Georgian diaspora in the United States.
Germans  Germany 66,420,000 Largest of the Germanic peoples.
German American  United States 50,000,000 German diaspora in the United States.
German Argentine  Argentina 3,100,000 German diaspora in Argentina.
German Australian  Australia 812,000 German diaspora in Australia.
German Brazilian  Brazil 5,000,000 German diaspora in Brazil.
German-Briton  United Kingdom 262,000 German diaspora in the United Kingdom.
Germans in Bulgaria  Bulgaria 436 German diaspora in Bulgaria.
German Canadian  Canada 3,200,000 German diaspora in Canada.
German-Chilean  Chile 500,000 - 600,000 German diaspora in Chile.
Germans in the Czech Republic  Czech Republic 40,000 German diaspora in the Czech Republic.
Germans of Hungary  Hungary 120,344 German diaspora in Hungary.
Germans of Kazakhstan  Kazakhstan 180,374 German diaspora in Kazakhstan.
German Mexican  Mexico 140.000 German diaspora in Mexico.
German Peruvian  Peru 180,000 German diaspora in Peru.
Germans in Poland  Poland 153,000 German diaspora in Poland.
Germans in Romania  Romania 60,000 German diaspora in Romania.
Germans from Slovakia  Slovakia 5,000 - 10,000 German diaspora in Slovakia.
Germans of Yugoslavia  Croatia,  Serbia,  Bosnia and Herzegovina,  Slovenia 8,400 German diaspora in former Yugoslavia.
Gia Rai  Vietnam 332,557 Also known as Jarai.
Giay
Gie Trieng
Gitanos  Spain 1,000,000 Romani people in Spain.
Godoberis  Dagestan 3,000
Gogodali  Papua New Guinea
Gongduk  Bhutan 2,100
Gorals  Poland,  Slovakia,  Czech Republic
Gorani  Serbia 13,946 - 60,000 Slavic people in Serbia
Goshute  United States (Nevada, Utah) 450 Native American peoples.
Gotlanders  Sweden
Goulaye
Greeks  Greece,  Cyprus 14,000,000 - 17,000,000
Griqua  South Africa,  Namibia 2,000,000 - 5,000,000
Gros Ventre  United States (Montana) 3,682 Native American peoples.
Gruzinim  Georgia,  Israel,  United States 180,000 Georgian-speaking Jews from Georgia.
Guadeloupean  Guadeloupe
Guajajara  Brazil 19,471 Indigenous people.
Guarani  Paraguay,  Argentina,  Brazil,  Bolivia 257,400 Indigenous people.
Gujaratis  India (Gujarat) 65,000,000 - 75,000,000
Gullah  United States (South Carolina, Georgia) Descendants of enslaved Africans.
Gurage  Ethiopia 1,867,377
Guria
Guru  Côte d'Ivoire
Gurung  Nepal 543,571

H [edit]

Name Country Population Notes
Hadza  Tanzania 1,000 an ethnic minority group in Tanzania.
Haida  United States (Alaska),  Canada (British Columbia) 2,000 Native Americans inhabiting the Pacific Northwest part of the country.
Haitian  Haiti,  France,  United States,  Canada,  Guadeloupe,  Martinique,  French Guiana,  Dominican Republic,  Bahamas 10,123,787
Hakka  China (Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Hong Kong),  Taiwan,  Malaysia,  Indonesia,  Philippines,  Thailand,  Singapore,  Australia 80,000,000 a distinct subgroup of Han Chinese of the People's Republic of China and Taiwan.
Haliwa-Saponi  United States (North Carolina) 3,800 Native Americans inhabiting North Carolina
Hamar  Ethiopia 42,838 southern Ethiopia
Hamshenis  Turkey,  Russia,  Abkhazia,  Armenia,  Kazakhstan,  Kyrgyzstan An Armenian ethnic group mostly in Turkey.
Han Chinese  China,  Taiwan,  Hong Kong,  Singapore,  Macau 1,310,158,851 dominant ethnic group of the People's Republic of China, Taiwan and Singapore and largest ethnic group in the world.
Hani  China (Yunnan),  Vietnam,  Laos,  Burma 1,500,000
Hausa  Nigeria,  Niger,  Sudan,  Chad,  Saudi Arabia,  Togo,  Benin,  Burkina Faso,  Cameroon,  Cote d'Ivoire,  Ghana 40,000,000 an ethnic group that occupies a large portion of West Africa, including the Northern part of Nigeria, Niger, Ghana, and in varying mumbers throughout the Sahel and West Africa.
Havasupai  United States (Arizona) 750 Native Americans inhabiting Arizona
Haw  Thailand Chinese people who migrated to Thailand via Burma or Laos. Most of them were from Yunnan, the southern province of China.
Hawaiian  United States (Hawaii, California, Nevada, Washington, Guam) 164,918 Polynesian indigenous people of the island chain in the Pacific Ocean.
Hapa  United States 527,077 mixed Asian/Native Hawaiian/White-European American peoples in the USA.
Hazara  Afghanistan,  Iran,  Pakistan,  Canada Approx. 4.4-7.5 million inhabitants of Afghanistan and Pakistan, who have Mongol descent.
Herero  Namibia,  Botswana,  Angola 240,000 most live in Namibia.
Hesquiat  Canada (British Columbia) Native Americans inhabiting British Columbia
Hezhen  Russia,  China,  Ukraine 18,000 Also known as "Nanai People".
Hidatsa  United States (North Dakota) Siouan people, a part of the Three Affiliated Tribes.
Himba  Namibia,  Angola 20,000 - 50,000
Hindoestanen  Suriname,  Netherlands 135,000 Also known as Indo-Surinamese
Hindi people  India people from the loosely defined linguistic region in North and Central India where Hindi languages are widely spoken.
Hinukhs  Russia 443 from the Tsunta region of southwest Dagestan
Hispanic  United States 49,850,000 Americans with origins in (as defined by law, in Mexico, Puerto Rico, or other Spanish-Speaking Cultures.) Latin America.
Hmar  India less than 100,000 northeast India
Hmong  China,  Vietnam,  Laos,  United States,  Thailand,  France,  Australia,  French Guiana,  Canada,  Argentina,  Germany 4-5 million an ethnic minority in China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, USA, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, French Guiana varies from languages.
Hoa  Vietnam 823,071 a minority living in Vietnam consisting of persons considered to be ethnic Chinese.
Ho-Chunk  United States (Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa) 7,000 also known as Winnebago.
Hoh  United States (Washington) Native Americans inhabiting western Washington.
Hohokam  United States,  Mexico 0 a prehistoric people that lived in what is now the Southwest United States / Northwest Mexico.
Hoklo  China,  Taiwan,  Hong Kong,  Macau,  Malaysia,  Singapore,  Indonesia,  Burma,  Philippines 60,000,000 A subgroup of Han Chinese of Taiwan, southern Fujian, and in Wenzhou and Zhoushan prefectures of Zhejiang province. They are also known as Hokkiens.
Holikachuk  Canada (Yukon Territory) an Athabaskan people native to western Alaska.
Hopi  United States (Arizona) 18,327 Native American, of the southwest United States.
Houma  United States (Louisiana) 10,837 Native American.
H're  Vietnam 113,111 most live in Vietnam's South Central Coast.
Hualapai  United States (Arizona) 1,965 Native American.
Huastec  Mexico 66,000 Natives of Mesoamerica.
Hui Chinese  China 10,000,000 a predominantly Muslim ethnic group in China.
Huicol  Mexico Native Americans in Mexico.
Hungarians  Hungary 13.2-14.5 million also known as Magyars.
Huns n/a 823,071 ancient ethnic group, may have been ancestors to Bulgarians and/or Hungarians.
Hunzakuts  Pakistan 87,000 also known as Burusho people.
Huli Template:Country data Papau New Guinea 136,000 live in the Southern Highlands districts of Tari, Koroba, Margaraima and Komo, of Papua New Guinea.
Hunzibs  Russia 1,840 a group in southern Dagestan.
Hupa  United States (California) 2,140 Native American.
Hurrians n/a ancient people from the Middle East.
Huron  United States (Michigan, Oklahoma, Kansas),  Canada (Quebec) 8,900 Eastern United States Native American. Also know as Wyandot.
Hutsuls  Ukraine,  Romania 26,290 Ukrainian mountain people of Ukraine and Romania.
Hutu  Rwanda,  Burundi,  Democratic Republic of Congo 11,500,000 a people mainly of Rwanda and Burundi.
Hyksos  Egypt 0 historic peoples of ancient Egypt, originated in Southwest Asia.

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X [edit]

Name Country Population Notes
Xakriabá  Brazil 6,000
Xavante  Brazil (Eastern Mato Grosso) 9,600
Xerente  Brazil 1,813
Xhosa  South Africa 7,900,000
Xibe  China (Xinjiang) 172,900
Xikrin  Brazil
Xin Uygurs  China (Xinjiang)
Xinh Mun  Vietnam,  Laos 18,018
Xo Dang  Vietnam 127,148
Xtieng  Vietnam,  Cambodia 6,059
Xucuru  Brazil (Pernambuco) 8,500
Xueda

Y [edit]

Name Country Population Notes
Yaghan An ethnic minority in Chile
Yaghnabis
Yagua An ethnic minority in Peru
Yakama or Yakimas
Yakugir An ethnic minority in Russia
Yakuts Turkic people of Siberia in Russia
Yang
Yankton Sioux Native Americans
Yanomami the Amazon River basin, Brazil
Yao an ethnic minority in Thailand
Yavapai: Yavapai-Apache Nation, Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe
Yapese Ethnic group at Yap Island, part of the Federated States of Micronesia.[4]
Yaqui Native Americans
Yawanawa
Yawalpiti Native Americans
Yazgulamis
Yekuana An ethnic minority in Venezuela
Yi
Yocha-Dehe
Yokut
Yoruba an ethnic minority group in Nigeria, Benin and Togo
Yörük semi-nomadic Turkish people of Balkans and Anatolia
Yuchi
Yugur
Yukaghirs
Yuki – Native Americans of northwestern California (USA)
Yuma Native Americans of southeastern California and southern Arizona (USA)
Yumbri
Yupik
Yurok Native Americans of Southern Oregon and Northern California (USA)
Yu people Thought to be in moribund status, extinct language but cultural distinction present among the "Yu family" in Central China

Z [edit]

Name Country Population Notes
Zaghawa  Chad (eastern) and  Sudan (western) 75,000-350,000
Zambo Latin America 800,000 Mixed people of African and Native American descent.
Latino Zamboangueño  Philippines (Zamboanga Peninsula)
Zapotec  Mexico
Zarma  Niger (western)
Zeibeks  Turkey (Izmir, Aydın)
Zazas  Turkey (eastern) 1-2,000,000
Zhuang  China (Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region) 18,000,000
Zou  India
Zulian  Venezuela (Zulia) 4,000,000
Zulu  South Africa 10,600,000
Zuni  United States 12,000

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References [edit]

  1. ^ According to the CIA World Factbook – Austria – People: Ethnic Groups
  2. ^ "Language spoken by only two people dying out as they won't talk to each other". The Daily Telegraph. 14 April 2011. 
  3. ^ Tuamotus ethnically diverse from other French Polynesian Islands
  4. ^ Ethnic groups at Federated States of Micronesia
  • Levinson, David (1998), Ethnic Groups Worldwide: A Ready Reference Handbook, Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 978-1-57356-019-1 
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