List of contemporary ethnic groups

The following is an incomplete list of ethnic groups.

List

Name	Country	Population (approx.)	Notes
Abazins	Russia (Karachay-Cherkessia), Turkey, Egypt	250,000
Abenaki	Canada (Quebec, Nova Scotia), United States (Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine)	12,000	Native Americans
Abipones	Argentina	0	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 don't have a state, but because they don't 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-American peoples of the Americas	USA Brazil Colombia Haiti Canada Jamaica	180,000,000	Refers to people born in the Americas with African ancestors. Includes African Americans and Afro-Latin Americans.
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
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.
Altai	Russia (Altai Republic)	75,000
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
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-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	422,000,000	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.
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	100,000	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
Arya Vysya	India		Members of one of the four varnas (castes) in traditional Hindu societies.
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.
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
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	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, a tribe of the Nahuas (see also Nahuatl)
Ayapaneco	Mexico	2	Indigenous people of Mexico, currently only two persons of this community still speak the Ayapaneco language
Babongo	Gabon
Bahraini	Bahrain	600,000	people of Bahrain
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,Turkmenistan	25,000,000-30,000,000	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
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
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
Bemba	Zambia
Bene Israel	India, Israel	65,000	Indian Jews of western India
Berbers	Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Canary Islands	50,000,000
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.
Bosniaks	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3,000,000	South Slavic people.
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
Brahui	Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran	2,528,000
Brau	Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam	313
Bretons	France	1,246,798 - 3,120,288
Britons	United Kingdom	182,500,000	British people, also referred to as Britons, informally as Brits, or archaically as Britishers, are citizens or natives of the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies, British Overseas Territories, and their descendants.
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
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 Maritime Southeast Asia 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
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	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.
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.
Coalhuiltec			Native American peoples.
Co Ho people	Vietnam
Co Lao
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.
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.
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.
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	People from Denmark of Scandinavia.
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.
Dyula	Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso		Also known as Jula. Part of the Manding linguistic/cultural subgroup of the Mandé peoples.
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 United States Australia New Zealand	100,000,000	Ethnic group of the UK, and of England, descended from ancient Britons (Celts) as well as Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. Sub-group of British.
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.
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.
Falasha/Beta Israel	Israel, Ethiopia	125,000 - 130,000
Fante	Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire	3,000,000	Akan people.
Faroese	Faroe Islands, Denmark, Iceland, Norway	80,000 - 90,000	Germanic people.
Fars	Iran, 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
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	106,000,000 (65,800,000)	Includes people with French ancestry (brackets denote completely French).
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	Nigeria, Guinea, Senegal, Mali, Cameroon, Sudan, Burkina Faso, Niger	38,000,000 - 40,000,000	Also called Fulani or Fulbe.
Fulni-o
Fur	Sudan	744,000
Ga-Adangbe	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	150,000,000 (66,420,000)	Largest of the Germanic peoples. Includes people with German ancestry.
Gia Rai	Vietnam	332,557	Also known as Jarai.
Giay
Gibraltarian	Gibraltar	30,000	People of Gibraltarian origin.
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
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 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 China, Taiwan and Singapore and largest ethnic group in the world.
Hani	China (Yunnan), Vietnam, Laos, Burma	1,500,000
Hasani	Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey
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	4,000,000 - 5,000,000	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 people	China	10,000,000	a predominantly Muslim ethnic group in China.
Huichol	Mexico		Native Americans in Mexico.
Hungarians	Hungary, Austria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia (Vojvodina), Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine	13,200,000 - 14,500,000	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	Papua 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		historic peoples of ancient Egypt, originated in Southwest Asia.
Iatmul	Papua New Guinea	343,180	an ethnic minority group in Papua.
Iban	Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei	600,000	an ethnic group of Dayak (Sea Dayak) in Borneo, particularly in Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei.
Ibanag	Philippines	500,000	A Filipino minority ethnic group.
Ibibio	Nigeria	4,482,000	West Africa (Nigeria).
Icelanders	Iceland	295,672	Majority ethnic group of Iceland.
Icelandic American	United States	42,716	Citizens of the United States who have Icelandic ancestry.
Icelandic Canadian	Canada	94,205	Citizens of Canada who have Icelandic ancestry.
Igbo	Nigeria	30,000,000	A West African people based primarily in the southeastern part of Nigeria. Their language is also called Igbo.
Igbo American	United States		Citizens of the United States who have Igbo ancestry through migration and slavery.
Igbo Jamaican	Jamaica		Citizens of Jamaica who have Igbo ancestry through migration and slavery.
Igbo Canadian	Canada	1,200	Citizens of Canada who have Igbo ancestry through migration via Africa or West Indies.
Igorot	Philippines	500,000	A Filipino minority ethnic group.
Ijaw	Nigeria	15,000,000	Collection of peoples indigenous mostly to the forest regions of the Niger Delta.
I-Kiribati	Kiribati	103,500	Mix of diverse islander communities, including different populations on Phoenix-islands, Line-Islands, etc.
Illiniwek	United States		also known as the Illini, Illinois, or Illinois Confederacy.
Ilocano	Philippines	9,136,000	Third largest Filipino ethnic group.
Ilonggo	Philippines	8,200,000	A Filipino ethnic group.
Imereti	Georgia	700,000
Inca	Peru		Of western South America, along the Andes and particularly Peru.
Indo-Americans	Americas		people from Indian Origin settled in America
Indo-Malaysians	Malaysia		people from Indian Origin settled in Malaysia
Indo-Nepalese	Nepal, India		people from Indian Origin settled in Nepal (more specifically from Northern plains of India).
Indo-Caribbean	Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Guyana, Suriname	2,000,000	Caribbean people (found mostly in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica) and South American people (found mostly in Guyana, Suriname)of South Asian origins India, Nepal, Burma, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Indo-Europeans	Europe, Asia		hypothetical pre-historic people that spoke the hypothetical Proto-Indo-European language.
Indo-Guyanese	Guyana	327,000	Guyanese people of (South Asian) Indian origins.
Indo-Iranians	India, Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan		speakers of Aryan/Indo-Iranian languages originating from the Indian subcontinent, Iranian plateau and Central Asia, divided into three subgroups: Indo-Aryan peoples (see India, Pakistan and Bangladesh). Iranian peoples (see Farsi and Persians). Nuristani people in Afghanistan also of Indo-Iranian origins.
Indo-Jamaicans	India		East Indians from Jamaica) as a result of British indentureship in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Indo-Trinidadian	Trinidad and Tobago	525,000	Trinidad and Tobago people of South Asian origins: India, Pakistan, Nepal, Burma, Bangladesh, Maldives, Sri Lanka and former British colonies of Guyana in South America.
Ingessana	Ethiopia		an ethnic minority group in Ethiopia.
Ingrians	Russia
Ingushes	Russia	500,000	Ingushetia, northern Caucasus.
Innu	Canada	18,000	Native Americans of eastern Canada.
Inuit	United States, Canada, Greenland	150,000	Widespread in Alaska, northern Canada and Greenland.
Inupiat	United States	13,500
Irani	India		religious and ethnic community of the Indian subcontinent. See also Parsi.
Iranians	Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan	135,000,000 –185,000,000	Aryan speakers of Iranian languages inhabiting the Iranian plateau, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and other parts of the Caucasus and Central Asia (refers to a number of ethnic groups including Persians and Kurds).
Irish	Ireland	80,000,000	the native people of Ireland and Irish diaspora.
Iroquois	United States, Canada	125,000	Native Americans once widespread in the eastern United States (the Iroquois Confederacy of upstate New York) and Canada.
Ishkashmis	Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan	100,000
Isleta	United States		Natives from New Mexico.
Isoko	Nigeria	475,000
Istriot	Croatia	1,000
Istro-Romanians	Croatia	76	Istria.
Italians	Italy	140,000,000	Largest ethnic group in Italy. Includes people with Italian ancestry.
Itelmens	Russia	3,193
Itsekiri	Nigeria		A Nigerian minority ethnic group, located in Delta State in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, West Africa.
Izhorians	Ukraine, Russia	1,000
Jakaltek people	Guatemala	47,024 - 88,000	Maya people of Guatemala.
Jakut	Russia		an ethnic minority in Russia.
Janjevci	Kosovo, Croatia	10,000	South Slavic group.
Japanese people, ethnic Japanese	Japan	127,000,000	from the islands off the east coast of Asia (Yamato people, Ryukyuan people, Ainu people) and the Japanese home islands (Honshū, Kyushu and Shikoku, plus Hokkaido since the 17th century).
Jassic			(Jász) of Hungary.
Javanese	Indonesia	95,217,022	especially central and eastern part of Java, Indonesia, about 80 million on the island of Java and 50 million throughout Indonesia.
Jebala			an ethnic group of northern Morocco.
Jemez			Pueblo Indians of New Mexico.
Jing
Jingpo
Jino
Jorcharias
Jivaro			An ethnic minority in Peru and Ecuador.
Jola
Jopadhola
Jri
Jutes			descendants are the Jutlanders of Denmark.
Kalasha of Chitral			an ethnic group in Pakistan.
Kale			Romani people in Wales.
Kalenjin
Kallawaya			an ethnic minority in Peru.
Kaliai			an ethnic minority group in Papua.
Kalispel
Kalaallit			Inuit living in Greenland.
Kaluli			an ethnic minority group in Papua.
Kamas
Kamayura			An ethnic minority in Brazil.
Kannadiga			people from Karnataka, India.
Kanembu
Kapauku			a Papuan ethnic group speaking Ekari.
Kapampangan			A Filipino ethnic group.
Karachay			A Turkic people in Russia (primarily Karachay-Cherkessia).
Karaims			also known as Karaimi or Karaimlar, a Turkic community practising Islamic Mosaism.
Karajá			An ethnic minority in Brazil.
Karakalpaks			A Turkic people in Central Asia.
Karamanlides			Turkish-speaking people native to the Karaman and Cappadocia regions of Anatolia, Turkey also in Greece.
Karamojong			a people primarily of northeastern Uganda.
Karatas
Karelians			Finnic people in Finland and Karelia, northeastern Europe.
Karen			Southeast Asia.
Karok
Kashubians			a Slavic people of northern Europe.
Katang
Kato
Katuquina
Kavango
Kaw or Kansa Indians.
Kayapo			An ethnic minority in Brazil.
Kazakhs	Kazakhstan, China	13,600,000	a Turkic people of Central Asia, primarily Kazakhstan.
Kenyah			Indonesia.
Kenyan American			Current president of the United States Barack Obama has a Kenyan father.
Kereks
Keresan
Kets
Khakas			A Turkic people of Russia, primarily Khakassia
Khang
Khants			An ethnic minority in Russia.
Khasia
Khassonké
Khevi
Khevsureti
Khinalugs
Khmer	Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam	12,000,000	Found primarily in southeast Asia, especially Cambodia.
Khmer American			See Cambodian American.
Khmu			An ethnic minority in Laos.
Kho Mu
Khoikhoi			Southern Africa.
Khomani or Nu
Khufis
Khvarchis
Kickapoo			Native Americans of the USA and a small Kickapoo tribal community in the Rio Grande valley of Texas and northern Mexico.
Kĩkũyũ			Native to the African country of Kenya.
Kinh or Jing or Vietnamese
Kiowa			Native Americans of the Great Plains of the United States.
Klallam
Klamath			Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest (USA).
Klikitat
Knanaya			Originally Jewish migrants to India; they are now found in various religious sects including Christianity. They follow strict endogamy, a practice which has been facing increasing challenge from exogamous peoples now. Now many have migrated worldwide.
Kolchan
Kodava	India	166,000	an indigenous people and an ethno-linguistic minority residing in present-day SW Karnataka, in India.
Kombai			ethnic minority in Papua.
Kogi			an ethnic minority in Colombia.
Komi
Koniag			Alutiiq people of Alaska.
Kongo	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Angola	10,000,000	a major ethnic group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the largest in the Republic of the Congo.
Kootenai
Koptian			an ethno-religious group, most live in Egypt.
Korean	Korea, Republic of, North Korea	80,000,000	from the Korean Peninsula.
Korean adoptees
Korowai			An ethnic minority in Papua.
Koryaks			An ethnic minority in Russia.
Kosraean			Ethnic group at Kosrae, part of the Federated States of Micronesia.
Koskimo
Koyukon			Natives of Alaska.
Kozaks			Natives of United States.
Kpelle			Group from Guinea and Liberia.
Kraho			Natives of northwestern Brazil.
Krashovans
Kri			Group from Sierra Leone, western Africa.
Kristang			A creole ethnic group in Malacca, Malaysia and Singapore.
Krymchaks			a Jewish Turkic people living in Crimea.
Kuban Cossacks
Kubu			Indonesia.
Kuikuru			An ethnic minority in Brazil.
Kuna			an ethnic minority in Panama.
Kumeyaay
Kumyks			Turkic people of northern Caucasus.
Kurds	Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria	30,000,000 - 38,000,000	live mostly in Iran, Turkey, Syria and Iraq.
Kuruba Gowda			Indigenous people of India.
Ktunaxa			Indigenous people of British Columbia and Idaho.
Kwakiutl			an ethnic minority in Canada.
Kwakwaka'wakw			Indigenous peoples of the central British Columbia coast.
Kyrgyz	Kyrgyzstan	4,500,000	Turkic people of Central Asia, primarily Kyrgyzstan.
La Chi
La Ha
La Hu
Laguna Pueblo Indians of New Mexico.
Lahu
Laigain			from the northwestern region of Gaul.
Lakota			Native Americans of the Great Plains of the United States and Canada.
Laks			Caucasus.
Lamet
Langi (also Lango) – an ethnic group of Uganda (a Luo people)
Lao	Laos	3,800,000	southeast Asia.
Lao American
Lao Sung			the People's Republic of China, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand.
Lao Theung			Laos.
Latgalians			Baltic people in Eastern part of Latvia, northeastern Europe.
Latvians			Baltic people of northeastern Europe.
Lavae
Laven
Layap			ethnic minority in the North of India.
Laz
Lazoi
Lebanese people			18 million live worldwide.
Lebou
Lemkos			Slavic mountain people of Central Europe (Ukraine, Poland and Slovakia).
Lenca			An ethnic minority in Honduras.
Lengua			An ethnic minority in Argentina.
Leonese			A European people in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsule (Spain and Portugal). Their language is Leonese.
Lezgis			Dagestani.
Lhoba
Lhotshampa			people of Nepali ancestry in Bhutan. Can be of any ethnic or religious group, but are mostly Pahari-speaking Hindus. Found mostly in the south of the country.
Li
Liechtenstein			People of the principality located in the European Alps between Austria and Switzerland.
Limbus
Limburgish			speaking people of the tri-national area of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.
Lipka Tatars
Lipovans			Danube Delta, Romania.
Lisu			an ethnic minority in Thailand.
Lithuanians	Lithuania	4,000,000	Baltic people of central Europe. Lithuanians live worldwide, esp. North America (the US and Canada), South America ( Brazil).
Livonians			Finnic people in Latvia, northeastern Europe.
Lo Lo
Lobi
Lotuko
Louisiana Creole people			United States Louisiana.
Lozi
Loyalists of Ontario and New Brunswick
Lua			A minority cultural group of Laos, people in Laos, Southeast Asia.
Luba	Democratic Republic of the Congo	13,000,000	an ethnic minority group in the Congo.
Lue
Luhya			an ethnic group of Kenya comprising several closely related ethnic groups. A few other related ethnicities are located in two of Kenya's neighboring countries: Uganda and Tanzania.
Luiseno			Native Americans of Southern California (USA).
Lumad			A Filipino minority ethnic group.
Lumbee			Native Americans of the Carolinas (USA).
Lummi			Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest (USA).
Lunda			an ethnic minority group in DR Congo.
Lun Bawang/Lun Dayeh(Borneo) - an ethnic minority group in (Malaysia,Brunei,Indonesia)
Luo (also Joluo) – a people of Kenya and Tanzania (part of the larger Luo group).
Lusitanians			one of the ethnic groups of Ancient Portugal.
Luso-Brazilians			See Portuguese Brazilian
Luso-American			See Portuguese American
Luxembourgers			ethnic group native to Luxembourg.
Luxembourg American
Maasai			people of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania.
Macanese	Macau, Portugal, Brazil, United States, Canada, Peru	75,000	People of mixed Portuguese and Asian descent from Macau.
Macaoese/Macaolese	Macau	500,000	People of Macau origin. Known as 'Macaísta' in Portuguese.
Macedonians	Macedonia	2,000,000 - 2,200,000
Macuxi
Madeirans
Madheshis
Madurese
Magar people
Marwari			People from Mewar, Rajasthan, Indian region, generally known for their trading skills
Mewat			Ethnic group from Mewat, Rajasthan, Indian region
Magyars			a Central European people, speaking Hungarian (a Uralic language), more commonly known in English as Hungarians, majority people of Hungary, autochthonous minorities in Austria (Burgenland), Croatia, Romania (Csango, Székely, Transylvania), Serbia (Vojvodina), Slovakia and Ukraine, immigrant populations in North America (Canada and the U.S.):
Magyar American/Hungarian American
Magyar Canadian/Hungarian Canadian
Magyar Vojvodinian/Hungarians in Vojvodina			the second largest ethnic group of Vojvodina, Serbia, after the Serbs.
Mahican			Native Americans from New England.
Mahorian
Maidu			Native Americans of Northern California (USA).
Mailu			an ethnic minority group in Papua.
Maingtha			See Achang.
Maka			people of southern Cameroon.
Makah
Makong
Makua
Malagasi			an ethnic minority in Madagascar.
Malay	Malaysia Singapore	27,000,000	located primarily in the Malay peninsula, and parts of Sumatra and Borneo.
Malayalee People of Kerala State, South India.
Maliseet
Maltese			ethnic group in the Mediterranean.
Mam			a Maya people of Guatemala.
Mamamwa			an ethnic minority in the Philippines.
Manasi			An ethnic minority in Bolivia.
Manchu			Manchuria, now part of the People's Republic of China, north of Korea.
Mandan			Native Americans.
Mandinka	Côte d'Ivoire , Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Niger, The Gambia	13,000,000	an ethnic group in West Africa (part of the Manding linguistic/cultural subgroup of the Mandé peoples).
Mang people
Mangbetu			an ethnic minority in DR Congo.
Mangyan			A Filipino minority ethnic group.
Mansis			An ethnic minority in Russia.
Manx			indigenous people of the Isle of Man.
Maonan
Māori			indigenous people of New Zealand.
Mapuche			Non-homogeneous peoples of South America, inhabiting Chile and western Argentina.
Maratha			Kshatriya caste of Marathis.
Marathis	India	70,000,000 - 80,000,000	a.k.a. Maharashtrians due to the state they are the majority in – ethnic group of Maharashtra, Goa and surrounding states in India.
Mari			Uralic.
Maricopa
Marind-Anim			an ethnic minority in Papua New Guinea.
Mashantucket Pequots			Native Americans of New England.
Matabele			Southern Africa.
Mataco			An ethnic minority in Argentina.
Matis			ethnic minority.
Mattaponi
Maubere
Mauritian			People from the island of Mauritius.
Maya			collective term for diverse groups of indigenous peoples of south-east Mexico and northern Central America, widespread although most live in Mexico and Guatemala, and extends into Central America and recent immigrants of Mayan descent in the USA.
Mayo			An ethnic minority in Mexico.
Mazandarenis			Southern Caspian people.
M'Baka
Mbaya			An ethnic minority in Paraguay.
Mbochi			third largest ethnic group of the Republic of the Congo.
Mbuti
Megleno-Romanians			a Vlach ethnic group in Greece.
Meherrin
Mekeo			an ethnic minority group in Papua.
Melungeons of the Southeastern United States
Memon			ethnic group in India and Pakistan.
Menba
Mende			an ethnic group in Sierra Leone (a Mande people).
Menominee			Eastern United States Native American.
Mennonites			They are divided into ** The Amish or the Pennsylvania Dutch, and ** The Hutterites.
Mentawai			Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra, Indonesia.
Mer			Saurashtra, Gujarat, India.
Meskhetians
Mestizo	Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada (Metís), Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Greenland, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Uruguay, United States, Venezuela	230,000,000-260,000,000	People of mixed European and Native America or people of mixed Filipino and non-natives (mainly white) ancestry from Americas and the Philippines.
Métis
Meitei			People of a South Asian Ancient Kingdom, now merged to India, Also known as Manipuri, this ethnic group has sub groups like Meitei Naga, Meitei Kuki, Meitei Pangan and other subsets.
Me-Wuk
Mbuti			an ethnic minority group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Miccosukee			Eastern United States Native American.
Mi'kmaq			Eastern United States and Atlantic Canada Native American.
Mina			Meenas, Meena or Mina is a community mainly found in Rajasthan, India.
Mekeo			an ethnic minority group in Papua.
Mexican people	Mexico	150,000,000	Largest Spanish-speaking country in the world, second largest Latin American nation after Brazil.
Minahasa/Manadonese			Northern Part of Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Minangkabau			West Sumatra, Indonesia.
Mingo people
Mingrelians			sub-group of Georgians.
Miskito			native people of coastal Nicaragua.
Mission
Mizrahi Jews			see also Arab Jews
Mitsogo			an ethnic minority group in Gabon.
Miwok			Native Americans of Northern California (USA).
Mixtec			Central American natives. Live in Mexico.
Mizo			an ethnic minority in Bangladesh.
Mlabri			an ethnic minority in Laos.
Mnong
Modoc			Native Americans of the Western United States.
Mohajir			Descendents of Indian immigrants to Pakistan at the time of partition.
Mohave			Native Americans of the southwest United States.
Mohawk			Eastern United States Native American.
Mohegan
Mokshas			Finnic people in Middle Volga area
Molise Croats
Mon			southeast Asia, particularly Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and China.
Monacan			Native American ethnic group from the Eastern United States.
Monesque			people from Monaco.
Mongo	Democratic Republic of the Congo	12,000,000
Mongols	Mongolia China Russia	11,000,000	Majority in Mongolia, Kalmykia, Russia and Inner Mongolia, China
Mono			Native Americans from Eastern California and Nevada.
Monovish	Ireland, United Kingdom
Montagnais			Native Americans of Canada.
Montaukett
Montenegrins			largest ethnic group of Montenegro.
Moor			people living mainly in Western Sahara, Morocco and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, from which the latter country derives its name.
Moravians			people living in the Moravia region of Czech Republic, not to be confused with the Moravian diaspora, a global Christian religious community of the Moravian Church.
Moriori			indigenous ethnic-group of the Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
Morisco			Spanish Muslims who converted to Christianity.
Morlachs			Nearly extinct Latin-based ethnocultural group of Croatia.
Moro people			the largest and most dominant non-Christian minority in the Philippines.
Mossi			an ethnic minority group in Niger.
Motuan			an ethnic minority in Papua New Guinea.
Muckleshoot			Indians – Native Americans.
Mudéjar			Muslims of Al-Andalus, who remained in Christian territory after the Reconquista
Muhajir (Pakistan)			Urdu speaking population of Pakistan, who migrated from India to Pakistan at the time of partition of India in 1947.
Mulam
Mulatto			Blacks with mixed European and African ancestry, but the terminology "Mulatto" has become considered racially charged in the USA.
Mundas
Mundurucu			An ethnic minority in Brazil.
Muong
Mursi
Museu
Myene
Naga			(see List of Naga tribes) – an ethnic group in India and Burma.
Nahanni
Nahua	Mexico	3,500,000	Native Mexicans. Largest native ethnics in Mexico. They speak Nahuatl, the largest native american language in North America. The Nahuas are also the largest united natives in North America.
Namaqua
Nanais
Nansemond
Narragansett			native Americans of New England.
Nasia			an ethnic minority group in New Guinea.
Natchez			An ethnic minority in Mexico.
Nauruan			Micronesian group of islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Navajo			Native Americans of the southwest United States. Mostly situated in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. Largest Native American tribal nation in the USA.
Naxi
Ndau
Ndebele			an ethnic group of southern Africa (a Nguni people).
Negidals
Negrito			Umbrella term of many minority groups of the Maritime Southeast Asia.
Nenets			Samoyedic people living in Russia.
Nespelem			alternate spelling Nespelim or Nespilim; Salish Native Americans of eastern Washington State.
Nevisian of the island of Saint Nevis
Newar
Nez Percé			Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area.
Ngac'ang – See Achang
Ngasan			An ethnic minority in Russia.
Ngae
Ngái
Nganasans			Samoyedic people.
Nhahuen
Nhuon
Niominka
Nipmuc
Nishka
Nisqually
Nisei			see Japanese American along with Sansei.
Nisse
Nivkh			An ethnic minority in Russia.
Niuean – Polynesian			island in the Pacific Ocean.
Ni-Vanuatu			of Vanuatu, an island chain in the Pacific Ocean.
Njem			people of southern Cameroon.
Nogais			Tatars.
Nomlaki
Nooksack			Native Americans of Washington.
Northumbrians
Norwegians	Norway, Sweden	10,000,000	Scandinavian people from the nation of Norway.
Norwegian American
Norwegian Canadian
Nu
N/u or Khomani
Nuba			an ethnic minority group in Sudan.
Nubians			an African people native to the upper Nile Valley, between Egypt and Sudan.
Nuer			southern Sudan and western Ethiopia.
Nukak			an ethnic minority in Colombia.
Nung
Nuristani			an ethnic group found mostly in Nuristan, Laghman and Kunar provinces of Afghanistan and some western valleys of adjacent Chitral district of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, 125,000 - 300,000
Nuu-chah-nulth			Native Americans of the Pacific northwest of North America.
Nyagatom			ethnic minority in Ethiopia.
Nzema			People living in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.
O Du
Occitania			Occitan Language speaking peoples in Southern France.
Odawa
Ogaden
Oglala			Native Americans of the central United States.
Ogoni
Ojibwa			Native Americans of Canada and the northern USA.
Okamba
Okande
Okies			A transplanted sociocultural group from Oklahoma and the Great Plains states to California and the US West Coast.
Okinawans
Omaha
Omagua			An ethnic minority in Brazil.
Oneida
Onondaga
O'Odham			see Tohono O'Odham.
Oroch
Orokaiva			an ethnic minority group in Papua.
Oroks
Oromo	Ethiopia, Kenya	34,000,000	in East Africa.
Oroqen
Oroshoris
Osage Nation			of Oklahoma (formerly also of Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas).
Ossetians			Iranian speaking people of the Caucasus.
Otavaleño			an ethnic minority in Ecuador.
Otoe-Missouria
Ottawa			Native Americans.
Ovambo
Pa Then
Paiute			Native Americans of the Western USA.
Pākehā			New Zealanders of European ancestry.
Pakoh
Palestinian			Ethnic Arabs.
Palcene
Paliyan
Pamunkey
Panamanian
Pandits			Sub ethnic group of Brahmin who are involved in spiritual work from India.
Pangasinan people			A Filipino ethnic group.
Panoan
Pa-O			Burma.
Pashu			Burma.
Pashtun	Pakistan Afghanistan India	70,000,000	One of the largest ethnic groups of the world inhabiting in Afghanistan, Pakistan (with smaller communities in Iran, the United Arab Emirates, India and millions of ethnic Pashtuns live worldwide in diaspora.
Parsi	India	125,000 - 200,000	ethno-religious group of the Indian subcontinent (etymologically related to, but not to be confused with Persian language word for a person from Pars). Descended from Zoroastrian Persians who migrated to the northern Indian subcontinent.
Passamaquoddy
Pataxo
Pattar			Belong to Vishwakarma community in India. Pattar actually means, 'Goldsmith'.
Pa-Thi			Burma.
Paugusset
Pawnee			Eastern United States Native American
Pennsylvania Dutch			members of Plain sects who conduct religious services in Pennsylvania German, a dialect very similar to the German spoken in the lower Rhine area, from which they came.
Penan			ethnic minority in Malaysia.
Pennsylvania German			people of many religious affiliations whose families were formerly Pennsylvania Dutch. Called Pennsylvania Dutch by some.
Penobscot			Eastern United States Native American.
Peoria
Papel
Perce			Native Americans.
Petchenegs
Phoenicians			historical ethnic group of the Levant.
Phong
Phu La
Phu Noi
Phu Thai
Picardy			Picards.
Picts			Early settlers on the island of Ireland, yet they were found in Scotland during the height of the Roman Empire (1st century AD).
Pied-noir			French people who live(d) in North Africa (primarily in Algeria when it was part of France before the war of independence, 1954–62).
Piegan			Native Americans.
Pima			Native Americans of the Southwest USA.
Pit River Indians
Pitcairn-Norfolk, microcosm of English settlers on two islands in the South Pacific.
Pilaga			An ethnic minority in Argentina.
Pokot people
Polabian Slavs
Polish	Poland United States	60,000,000 - 70,000,000	Slavic people of Eastern and Central Europe, also known as Polonia.
Polynesians	New Zealand, United States, Australia	1,500,000	a.k.a. Pacific Islanders. Consists of various ethnic groups that speak Polynesian languages.
Pomaks			Slavic Muslims found in Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece.
Pomo			Western United States Native American. Most live in California.
Ponca			Native Americans of the Great Plains (USA).
Ponhpeian – ethnic group at Pohnpei, part of the Federated States of Micronesia.
Pontic Greeks			a population group in Greece and the southern coast of Black Sea.
Poospatuck
Portuguese	Portugal	115,000,000	extreme southwest of Europe. Includes people with Portugese ancestry.
Potawatomi			Eastern United States Native American.
Potiguara
Powhatan			Eastern United States Native American.
Proto-Indo-Europeans			pre-historic speakers of the hypothetical Proto-Indo-European language.
Pu Peo
Pueblo people			Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains-area and the desert Southwest USA.
Puelche			An ethnic minority in Argentina and Chile.
Puerto Ricans
Puget Sound Salish			of Washington.
Purépecha			Native Americans living in western Mexico.
Punan			Indonesia.
Pumi
Punjabis	Pakistan India United Kingdom	120,000,000	Indo-Aryan group inhabiting the Punjab, located in India and Pakistan. More specifically, the majority in the provinces, territories and states of Islamabad Capital Territory, Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab, India, Chandigarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Azad Kashmir and Delhi.
Puyallup
Qashqai			Turkic minority group of South-Western Iran
Q'eros
Qiang
Quahatika
Quapaw			Native Americans of the Southern Plains (USA)
Quechan
Québécois			French Canadian
Quechuas			South American people (various ethnic groups speaking Quechua) of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, and Chile
Quiché (K'iche')
Quileute
Quinault
Quinqui			semi-nomadic group of Spain
Ra Glai
Rais
Rajasthani			Ethnic group from Rajasthan - Western part of India.
Rakhine			Rakhine State, Burma
Rakuba			an ethnic minority group in Chad
Ramapough Mountain Indians
Rappahannock			of the mid-Atlantic region of the United States
Rashaida			minority group in Sudan, closely related to the Bedouin
Rehoboth Baster people of Namibia in southern Africa
Ripuarian people of the tri-national area of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany
Ro Mam
Rohingya			Muslim minority group in North western Burma
Roma			one of the two groups more commonly known as Gypsies, who are of North Indian/Indo-Aryan descent
Romani	Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Hungary	2,000,000 - 12,000,000	An ethnic group consisting of Roma and Kale.
Romanians	Romania Italy Spain	23,623,890	a Vlach ethnic group of the Balkans
Roshanis
Rotuman			Native of Rotuma, Fiji
Russians	Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan	133,000,000 - 150,000,000	Eastern Slavs of eastern Europe, majority group of most areas of Russia, including large parts of the Caucasus and Siberia
Rusyns
Ruthenians
Rutuls			Dagestani
Ryukyuans			the native inhabitants of the Ryukyus, a chain of islands starting about 200 km (124 mi) southwest of the Japanese mainland Northern Ryukyuans Amamians Okinawans Southern Ryukyuans Miyakoans Yaeyamans Yonagunians
Saarlanders of Saarland, Germany and adjacent part of France.
Sadang
Saek
Saho			northern Ethiopia
Saingolo
Salar
Salish			of Washington and British Columbia.
Samanthan
Samaritan
Samegrelo
Sami			Nordic (Norwegian, Finnic and Swedish) people, thought to be among the oldest ethnic groups in Europe.
Sammarinese			People of San Marino
Samoans			Polynesian island chain in the Pacific Ocean, also the largest group of Polynesians. Many Samoans live in the Mainland US and Hawaii (see Samoan American).
Samogitians			Baltic people in western part of Lithuania, northeastern Europe.
Samojeeds			Ethnic minority in Russia.
Samtao
Samburu			an ethnic minority group in Kenya.
San			an ethnic minority group in Botswana.
San Chay
San Diu
Sanema			ethnic minority in South America.
Santal
Santee Sioux			native Americans of the Great Plains (USA).
Saponi			Native American people of North Carolina – related to the Catawba.
Sara
Saramaka			ethnic minority in Suriname.
Sarakatsani			a Greek population of transhumant shepherds in Greece and other parts of the southern Balkans.
Sauk			Native Americans of the Midwest/Great Plains (USA).
Sauk-Suiattle
Savoyard dialect of Savoyards of Savoy in southeastern France
Saxons of the German state of Saxony			Ancestral people of the English people. See Anglo-Saxons.
Scottish	Scotland, United States, Canada, Australia	28,000,000 - 40,000,000	Ethnic group native to Scotland. Includes people with Scottish ancestry.
Sekani
Selk'nam
Selkies			mythological people of the North Sea and British Isles, but would have been a pre-Indo-European ethnicity if they existed
Selkups			Samoyedic people
Semai
Seminole			Native Americans of Florida
Sena
Seneca			Native Americans of the New York area
Senegalese people of Senegal and the Gambia
Sentinelese
Sephardic Jews	Israel	1,500,000-2,000,000	Mostly found in Israel, the Americas and Southeast Europe.
Serbs	Serbia Bosnia	10,500,000 - 12,000,000	South Slavic. Orthodox people of southeastern Europe (Balkans) living in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Republika Srpska) as well as Croatia and Macedonia
Serer
Serer-Ndut
Seychellois Creole people
Seychellois people			Ethnic minority in Europe.
Shan	Burma, China, Thailand	6,000,000
Shangaan
Shasta
Shavante			An ethnic minority in Brazil
Shawnee			related peoples to the Algonkian, Delaware (Leni-Lenape) and Iroquois peoples
She
Sherpa			group in Nepal and the Himalaya
Shinnecock
Shipibo			An ethnic minority in Peru
Shoalwater Bay Tribe
Shona	Zimbabwe, Mozambique	14,000,000	ethnic group from Zimbabwe and Mozambique
Shors
Shoshone			Native Americans of the Great Basin (USA)
Shughnis
Shui
Si La
Sidamo			southern Ethiopia
Siddi
Siksika
Silesians			inhabitants of Silesia of either Polish- and German-speaking origins of Poland
Siletz
Sindhis	Pakistan (mainly in Sindh), India (mainly in Gujarat and Rajasthan)	25,000,000 - 39,000,000	Found mainly in Sindh, Pakistan. Most Sindhi Hindus also moved to Gujarat and Rajasthan in India after partition
Singmun
Sinhalese or Sinhalas	Sri Lanka	15,000,000	inhabitants of Sri Lanka
Sinti			one of the two main groups of Gypsies, who are of North Indian/Indo-Aryan descent
Sioux			Northern Central United States
Siuslaw
Skagit			Native Americans
S'Klallam
Skokomish
Sḵwxwú7mesh
Slavs
Slovaks	Slovakia	6,000,000	Slavic people of central Europe
Slovenes	Slovenia	2,000,000 - 2,500,000	Slavic people of central and southeastern Europe
Sokci
Somali	Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Yemen, Djibouti	16,000,000 - 19,000,000	in Greater Somalia and the Somali diaspora
Somba
Songhai			msinly in Mali (closely related to the Zarma and Dendi)
Soninke			a group in Senegal, Mali, and Mauritainia (a Mande people)
Sorbs			concentrated Slavic minority in Germany (see also Wends and Lusatians)
Souei
Southern Tutchone
Spanish	Spain	100,000,000	southwestern Europe, inhabitants of Iberia and their descendants of Latin America
Spanish American
Spokane - native tribe of the Pacific Northwest (USA)
Squaxin Island Tribe
Sri Lankan Moors			People of mixed Arab descent in Sri Lanka
Stillaguamish
Sundanese	Indonesia	40,000,000+	western part of Java, Indonesia
Sudanese people
Suquamish
Suri			ethnic minority in Ethiopia
Surui			An ethnic minority in Brazil
Susu			group in coastal Guinea (a Mande people)
Suyá			tribe of Brazil
Svans			sub-group of Georgians
Aramean-Syriacs
Swahili people			ethnic minority in Kenia and Tanzania
Swazi	Swaziland, South Africa	2,482,046	Largest ethnic group of Swaziland, also significant population in South Africa (a Nguni people)
Swedes	Sweden, Finland	13,250,000	a Germanic people of Scandinavia. Includes those with Swedish ancestry.
Swinomish
Syrian Christians or Saint Thomas Christians	India	6,000,000	one of the ancient Christian community from India.Syrian Christians or Saint Thomas Christians are a high caste in the Indian Social order. There is a common belief that Saint Thomas Christians were Brahmins converted to Christianity by Saint Thomas in 1st Century
Swiss Romansh
Sylheti - India (Barak Valley, Tripura), Bangladesh
T'boli			people at Philippines in Mindanao
Ta Oi
Tabasarans			Dagestani
Taché
Tachi
Tagalogs	Philippines	22,000,000	The second largest Filipino ethnic group
Tagish
Taíno			natives of the Caribbean
Taiwan			Inhabitants of the island nation
Taiwanese aborigines
Tajik	Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, China	20,000,000 - 23,000,000	Iranian peoples, lives across Central Asia
Tajiks in China			one of 56 nationalities officially recognized by the People's Republic of China
Taliang
Talysh			An ethnic group in Iran and Azerbaijan.
Tamang			group in Nepal and the Himalaya
Tamil	India Sri Lanka Malaysia	77,000,000	Dravidian group widespread in Southern India and parts of Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa and a global diaspora
Tamil Indians in Sri Lanka
Tanna			An ethnic minority in Vanuatu
Tanana
Taos Pueblo Indians of New Mexico
Tapajo			An ethnic minority in Brazil
Tapirapé			An ethnic minority in Brazil
Tapuia
Tarahumara			Native Americans of the Mexican state of Chihuahua
Tarascan
Tasaday			an ethnic minority in the Philippines
Tatar	Russia	6,800,000	An ethnic group of Turkic people, who gave birth to contemporary Azerbaijani people, and people of contemporary Tatarstan in a mixture with people of older Turkic tribes.
Tats			an ethnic group in Azerbaijan and Dagestan
Tay
Teda			an ethnic minority group in Chad
Tehuelche			An ethnic minority in Argentina
Teimani Jewish Jews of Yemenite extraction
Tejano			Latino immigrants to Texas though they may be its' original Spanish/Amerindian inhabitants
Telefolmin			an ethnic minority group in Papua
Telugu	India	80,000,000
Terena
Tetons (Lakota people) – Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area
Tewa
Texans and Tejanos			Cultural peoples from the state of Texas, USA
Thai	Thailand	50,000,000	majority ethnic group of Thailand
Thakali			minority ethnic group of Nepal
Tharu
Thin
Thổ
Tibetans	China (Tibet Autonomous Region, various Tibetan regions, Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan and Gansu provinces), India	6,500,000	majority ethnic group of the Tibetan Autonomous Region (China), Ladakh (India), Baltistan (Pakistan), northern Bhutan, parts of Nepal and historically Sikkim
Ticuna
Tigray people
Tigray-Tigrinia	Ethiopia, Eritrea	9,339,400	in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan
Tigre people
Tigrinya people
Tigua
Tindis
Tipra
Tlakluit
Tlingit			Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest
Toala			an ethnic minority in Indonesia
Toba			an ethnic minority in Argentina
Tocharians			ancient yet extinct Indo-Europeans of Central Asia and Xinjiang, China
Tofalars
Tohono O'odham			Native Americans of Arizona, USA and Sonora, Mexico
Tokelauan – Polynesian island chain in the Pacific Ocean
Tolowa
Tolais			ethnic minority in Papua New Guinea (New Britain)
Toltec			Central America: Meso-American civilization of Mexico
Tonga			East Africa
Tongans			a Polynesian ethnic group
Tongva
Tonkawa
Topachula
Toraja			Indigenous Peoples in Sulawesi, Indonesia
Torbesh
Torres Strait Islanders			indigenous people of the Torres Strait Islands, Australia
Totonac
Toubou
Transylvanian Saxons			Germans of Romania
Trukhmens
Tsakhurs			Dagestan
Tsetsaut
Tsez			Also known as Dido.
Tsimishian			Pacific Northwest Native Americans
Tsonga			Southern Africa
Tsuu T'ina
Tswana people			ethnic minority in South Africa and Botswana (see also Batswana)
Tuareg			Berber people of Niger and surrounding area
Tujia
Tukano			An ethnic minority in Brazil
Tukolor
Tuamotu			Island group in French Polynesia; ethnically diverse from other French Polynesian islands
Tulalip
Tulutni
Tum
Tumbuka
Tungus
Tunica-Biloxi
Tupí people - indigenous people of Brazil
Tupian peoples of Brazil			Bolivia and Paraguay
Tupinamba			An ethnic minority in Argentina
Turkmen			Turkic people
Turkish	Turkey Germany	70,000,000	Turkic people
Tusheti
Tutsi			from Rwanda, Burundi and southern Africa
Tuvaluans			a Polynesian ethnic group originated in Tuvalu
Tuvans of Tuva, Siberia or the Soviet-annexed republic of Tannu Tuva
Twa peoples
Txicao			An ethnic minority in Brazil
Tzigane
U'wa			Indigenous peoples in the northeast of Colombia
Ubykh			minority Northwest Caucasian people of Manyas, Turkey
Udeghes
Udis
Ukrainian	Ukraine, Russia, Canada	39,800,000 - 57,500,000	widespread Slavic people north of the Black Sea, in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Moldova, Serbia, Greece and other several countries
Ulchs
Ulster-Scots			descendants of Scots who migrated to Ulster, Northern Ireland
Ulta			An ethnic minority in Russia
Umatilla
Umpqua
Upper Skagit
Urapmin			a small tribe in Papua New Guinea
Uruguay
Ute			Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area
Uyghur	China	10,000,000	Turkic Muslim people in the People's Republic of China
Uzbek	Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan	30,000,000	Turkic people of central Asia
Vaccaei			ancient people group in Northern Spain
Valencian people			Related to Catalan people, but are culturally distinct from Catalonians
Vandals			ancient Germanic people living in North Africa
Vaturanga			a people of the Guadalcanal
Venesuala			From the northern part of South America
Venda			South Africa
Veps
Visayan			The largest Filipino ethnic group
Vlachs			Latin/Romance-speaking peoples of the Balkans
Volga Germans			Mostly were deported by the Soviets or transported to Siberia during WWII
Votes
Wa
Wabanaki			native Americans
Waccamaw
Wailaki
Waitaha			pre-Māori people of Aotearoa (New Zealand)
Waiwai			An ethnic minority in Guyana
Waki			an ethnic minority in Pakistan and China
Wakhs
Walla Walla
Walsers			French/Swiss or German-Swiss settlers from the Valais Canton of Switzerland arrived in Austria and the former Austro-Hungarian empire during the 19th century (also known as the "Banat French", when they settled in the Banat region of Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia)
Wampanoag
Wasco
Washoe
Wayana			An ethnic minority in Guyana
Welayta people			people of southern Ethiopia
Welsh			a British people native to Wales
Wends			Slavic people from north-central Europe
White Mountain Apache of Arizona (USA)
Wichita
Wintu
Wintun
Wishram
Wiyot			northern California
Wolof			Senegal and elsewhere in western Africa
Wu Chinese			A subgroup of Han Chinese, concentrated in the Wu region and other parts of Jiangnan
Wyandot
Wyyanaha
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
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.
Yaqui			Native Americans
Yawanawa
Yawalpiti			Native Americans
Yazgulamis
Yekuana			An ethnic minority in Venezuela
Yi
Yocha-Dehe
Yokut
Yoruba	Nigeria, Benin	40,000,000	an ethnic 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
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	1,100,000	Native Mexicans living in southern 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	Native American

Related lists by status

• List of indigenous peoples
• List of stateless ethnic groups
• Uncontacted peoples

See also

• Ethnic flag
• Human
• List of language families
• Lists of people by nationality
• Lists of active separatist movements
• Race (classification of humans)
• Y-chromosome haplogroups by populations

References

• Levinson, David (1998), Ethnic Groups Worldwide: A Ready Reference Handbook, Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 978-1-57356-019-1