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There are many ethnic groups in West Asia and the region has historically been an crossroads of different cultures. Since the 1960s changes in political and economic factors (especially the enormous oil wealth in the region and conflicts) have significantly altered the ethnic composition of groups in the region. While some ethnic groups have been present in the region for millennia, others have arrived fairly recently through immigration. The five largest ethnic groups in the region are Arabs, Azeris, Kurds, Persians, and Turks^[1] but there are dozens of other ethnic groups which have hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of members (these include: Arameans, Armenians, Assyrians, Balochs, Bengalis, Britons, Chinese, Circassians, Copts, Crimean Tatars, Druze, Filipinos, Gagauz, Georgians, Gilaks, Greeks, Hindus, Jews, Lurs, Maltese, Mandaeans, Maronites, Mazanderanis, Mhallami, Nepalis, Ossetians, Pakistanis, Pashtuns, Punjabis, Roma, Samaritans, Shabaks, Sikhs, Sindhis, Somalis, Sri Lankans, Talishis, Tats, Turcomans, Yazidis, and Zazas).

Arabian Peninsula, the Levant and Mesopotamia

Arabic peoples

Israelite peoples

Syriac peoples

Assyrian people (sometimes referred as Chaldeans or Syriacs)
Arameans
Maronites
Mhallami

Mesopotamian peoples

Mandaeans

Indo-European peoples

Armenians
- Armenians in Lebanon
- Armenians in Syria

Greeks

Persians
- The Ajam of Bahrain
- The Ajam of Kuwait

Kurds
- Feylis
- Kaka'is

Levantines

Shabak

Tuckic peoples

Anatolia

Turkic peoples

Indo-European peoples

Semitic speakers
- Arabs in Turkey
- Assyrian people

Various Muslim immigrants from neighbouring regions
- Muslims from the Caucasus (Peoples of the Caucasus in Turkey)
- Muslims from the Balkans (mainly Albanians, Bosniaks and Pomaks)

Caucasus

Native Caucasians
- Northwest Caucasian peoples
  - Abazins
  - Abkhaz
  - Circassians
    - Adyghe
    - Cherkes
    - Kabardin
- Northeast Caucasian peoples
  - Batsbi
  - Chechens
  - Ingush
  - (Caucasian) Avars
- South Caucasian peoples
  - Georgians
  - Laz

Indo-European peoples
- Indo-Iranian peoples
- Armenians
- Slavic peoples
  - Russian people

Turkic peoples
- Azeris
- Balkars
- Karachays
- Kumyks
- Meskhetian Turks
- Nogais
- Tatars
- Trukhmens

Mongolic peoples
- Kalmyks

Cyprus

Greek Cypriots

Turkish Cypriots

Maronite Cypriots

Iran

Indo-European peoples
- Iranian peoples
  - Persians
  - Kurds
  - Lurs
  - Gilakis
  - Mazandaranis
  - Balochs
  - Talysh people
- Armenians

Turkic peoples

Semitic peoples
- Arab peoples
  - Iranian Arabs
- Assyrian people
- Hebrew people

Diaspora Populations

Because of the low population of many Gulf States and the demand for labor created by the large discoveries of oil in these countries there has been a steady stream of immigration to the region (mainly from South Asia). Ethnic groups which comprise the largest portions of this immigration include Bengalis, Chinese, Filipinos, Hindus, Nepalis, Pakistanis, Punjabis, Sikhs, Sindhis, Somalis, and Sri Lankans. Many of these people are denied certain political and legal rights in the countries in which they live and frequently face mistreatment by the native-born citizens of the host countries.

References

^ Ethnic Groups of Africa and the Middle East: An Encyclopedia. Retrieved 26 May 2014.

[1] Ethnic Groups of Africa and the Middle East: An Encyclopedia. Retrieved 26 May 2014.

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 *[[Syrian people|Syrians]]
 *[[Yemeni people|Yemenis]]

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