List of contemporary ethnic groups
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The following is an incomplete list of modern ethnic groups.
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| Name | Language Family | Country | Population (approx.) | Notes |
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| Abazins | Northwest Caucasian |  Russia ( Karachay-Cherkessia)  Turkey  Egypt |
250,000 | |
| Abenaki |  Canada (Quebec, Nova Scotia),  United States (Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine) |
12,000 | Native Americans | |
| Abkhazs | Northwest Caucasian |  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 | ||
| Abyssinian | Semitic |  Ethiopia |
1,400,000 | |
| Acadians | Romance | 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) |
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| Adyghe | Northwest Caucasian | Russia ( Adygea), Turkey |
600,000 | |
| Aeta |  Philippines |
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| 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 African slaves primarily though not exclusively of African ancestry. Due to the inability to identify themselves with any particular African ethnic group or African state as a result of lost records and intermarriage, they are largely considered a separate ethnicity. | |
| African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem |  Israel |
5,000 | an ethnic minority of black people in Israel | |
| Afrikaners | Germanic |  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. | |
| Agaw | Ethiopia, Eritrea |
874,000 | ||
| Agni or Anyi people | Ghana, Ivory Coast,  Sierra Leone |
2,500,000 | ||
| Aguls |  Dagestan |
30,000 | ||
| Ahtna | United States (Copper River) |
500 | Alaska Natives | |
| Aimaq |  Afghanistan,  Iran,  Tajikistan |
1,600,000 | ||
| Aynu | China |
<30,000 | 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) |
770 | Native Americans | |
| Akan | Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire |
20,000,000 | ||
| Akha |  Laos,  Burma,  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 | Albanian |  Albania  Kosovo  Serbia  Macedonia  Montenegro  Greece Turkey |
7,000,000 | Balkan people |
| Aleut | Eskimo-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 | Germanic |  France |
inhabitants of Alsace, France who are of ethnic German origin. | |
| Altaians | Turkic | Russia ( Altai Republic) |
367,000 | |
| 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 | Semitic | Ethiopia |
20,000,000 | also the Amharic language |
| Amish | Germanic | 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 | Romance |  Spain |
17,500,000 | Latin European people; inhabitants of southern Iberia |
| Andis |  Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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| Anga |  Papua New Guinea |
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| Anglo-Burmese | Burma |
52,000 | mixed-race descendants of Burmese and Anglophone British colonists | |
| Anglo-Celtic Australian | Germanic | 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 |
| Annamites or Vietnamese or Kinh or Jing | Vietnam |
77,000,000 | Majority ethnic group of Vietnam | |
| Alawites | Semitic |  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 |
1,847 | Indigenous people of Brazil. | |
| Appalachian folk culture of the Southeastern United States | USA |
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| Arabs | Semitic |  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. |
| Aragonese | Romance | 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 | Albanian |  Italy |
100,000 | Albanian population in Italy. |
| Archis | Dagestan |
1,200 | ||
| Arikara | United States (North Dakota) |
Native Americans | ||
| Armenians | Armenian |  Armenia, Russia, Iran, Georgia,  Azerbaijan, Turkey |
8,000,000 | natives of Eastern Anatolia |
| Aromanians | Romance | Greece, Serbia, Macedonia, Albania, Serbia,  Bulgaria |
100,000 - 1,000,000 | |
| Arvanites | Albanian | Greece |
50,000 - 200,000 | an Albanian-speaking population in Greece |
| Ashkenazi Jews | Semitic | Israel United States |
10,000,000 | 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. |
| Assyrians | Semitic |  Iraq Syria  Sweden Lebanon Iran Turkey |
1,700,000 - 2,000,000 | Indigenous Semites of Mesopotamia. |
| Atoni |  East Timor |
600,000 | ||
| 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) |
3,500 | Native American people of the Sioux | |
| Asturians | Romance | Spain |
1,076,896 | |
| Atacameno |  Chile |
2,000 | Native Americans | |
| 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 | Germanic |  Austria |
10,000,000 | a German-speaking, Germanic people, native to Austria and South Tyrol (today Italy) |
| Avars | Northeast Caucasian | Russia ( 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 |
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| Azerbaijanis | Turkic | Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkey, Russia, Georgia |
22,000,000 - 35,000,000 | |
| Aztecs | Mexico |
1,500,000 | Native North American people, descendants widespread in Mexico, a tribe of the Nahuas (see also Nahuatl) | |
| Babongo |  Gabon |
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| Bahrainis |  Bahrain |
600,000 | people of Bahrain | |
| Badui | Indonesia |
5,000 - 8,000 | ||
| Ba Na | Vietnam |
174,456 | ||
| Baggara |  Sudan |
1,000,000 | ||
| Baguirmi |  Chad |
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| Bagulals | Dagestan |
3,054 | ||
| Bai | China (Yunnan province) |
1,858,063 | ||
| Bai | South Sudan |
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| 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 |
1,100,000 | ||
| 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 | Turkic | Russia ( Kabardino-Balkaria) |
110,000 | |
| Balochs | Iranian |  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 |
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| 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 | ||
| 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 | Tajikistan |
3,000 | ||
| Basarwa |  Botswana,  Namibia South Africa Angola |
90,000 | Indigenous people | |
| Bashkirs | Turkic | Russia ( Bashkortostan)  Kazakhstan  Ukraine  Uzbekistan |
2,000,000 | |
| Basotho | Bantu |  Lesotho South Africa |
4,300,000 | |
| Basques | Basque | Spain France |
2,600,000 | One of the few non-Indo-European-speaking peoples in Europe. |
| 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 |
500 | Indigenous people | |
| Bateke | Congo, Republic of the, Congo, Democratic Republic of the |
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| Bats | Northeast Caucasian | Georgia |
3,000 | |
| Batswana | Botswana, South Africa |
3,900,000 | Largest ethnic group in Botswana | |
| Bavarians | Germanic | Germany |
12,531,925 | High German speaking people of Bavaria |
| Bedouins | Semitic |  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 | Slavic | Belarus |
9,000,000 | Majority people of Belarus |
| Bengalis | Indo-Aryan |  Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia |
300,000,000 | |
| Bemba |  Zambia |
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| Bene Israel | India, Israel |
65,000 | Indian Jews of western India | |
| Berbers |  Morocco,  Algeria,  Tunisia, Libya, Egypt,  Canary Islands |
50,000,000 | ||
| Berom |  Nigeria |
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| Betamaribe | Benin |
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| Bethio | Senegal,  Mauritania |
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| 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) |
13,000,000 | ||
| Bhotiya |  Bhutan,  Nepal, India (Sikkim) |
27,230 | ||
| Biafada people | Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Gambia |
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| 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 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 | ||
| Bosniaks | Slavic | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
3,000,000 | South Slavic people. |
| Botlikhs | Russia |
16 | ||
| Bougainvilleans | Papua New Guinea |
175.160 | There are 19 different language groups represented on Bougainville Iisland, in Solomon Islands. | |
| Boyar | India |
South Indian Hindu Telugu speaking community. | ||
| Boyko | Ukraine |
390 | Highlanders or mountain-dwellers. | |
| Bozo | Mali |
132,100 | ||
| Brahui | Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran |
2,528,000 | ||
| Brau | Laos,  Cambodia, Vietnam |
313 | ||
| Bretons | Celtic | France |
1,246,798 - 3,120,288 | |
| British | Germanic | United Kingdom Diaspora : United States, Canada, Australia, Australia,  Hong Kong,  New Zealand, South Africa,  Zimbabwe, Spain, Chile |
182,500,000 | People of United Kingdom origin and their descendants; also referred to as Britons, informally as Brits, or archaically as Britishers. |
| 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 | Slavic | Bulgaria |
9,000,000 - 10,000,000 | |
| Bunjevci | Serbia,  Hungary |
21,512 | ||
| Burgenland Croats | Slavic | Austria |
50,000 | Ethnic Croats in the Austrian state of Burgenland. |
| Buryats | Mongolic | Russia,  Mongolia |
500,000 | |
| Bushongo | Congo, Democratic Republic of the |
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| 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 |
71,721 | 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. | |
| Campa | Bolivia |
25,000 - 45,000 | ||
| 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 | Romance | 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 |
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| Catalans | Romance | 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. | |
| Cebuano | Philippines |
20,000,000 | Also known as Cebu. | |
| 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 |
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| Chamalals | Russia (Dagestan) |
5,000 | ||
| Chamorro |  Guam,  Northern Mariana Islands |
177,000 | Indigenous peoples. | |
| Champenois-speaking people of Champagne-Ardenne of Northeastern France | France |
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| Chechens | Northeast Caucasian | 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) |
4,100 | Native American peoples. | |
| Chileans | Chile |
17,094,275 | ||
| 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 | Turkic | Russia ( Tomsk Oblast) |
656 | |
| 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 | Turkic | Russia ( Chuvashia) |
2,000,000 | |
| Clayoquot | Canada (Vancouver, British Columbia) |
618 | Native American peoples. | |
| Coalhuiltec | Native American peoples. | |||
| Co Ho people | Vietnam |
166,112 | ||
| 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. | |
| 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 |
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| 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 | Celtic | 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. | |
| Cossacks | Slavic | Russia, Ukraine |
3,500,000 - 5,000,000[1][2] | 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) |
2,000 | 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 Tatars | Turkic | Ukraine ( Crimea) Uzbekistan Turkey |
248,200 | |
| Croats | Slavic |  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 United States |
11,247,925 | ||
| Cupeño | United States (California) |
1,000 | Native American peoples. | |
| Curaçaoan |  Curaçao |
142,180 | ||
| Greek Cypriots | Hellenic |  Cyprus |
1,150,000 | Ethnic Greek population in Cyprus. |
| Czechs | Slavic |  Czech Republic |
10,000,000 | Slavic people of central Europe, consisting of Bohemians and Moravians. |
| 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 | Germanic |  Denmark |
4,996,980 | People from Denmark of Scandinavia. |
| Danezaa | Canada (British Columbia) |
1,000 | Former named: Beaver. | |
| Danmin | ||||
| Darhad | ||||
| Dargins | Dagestan |
591,000 | ||
| Daribi | Papua New Guinea |
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| 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) |
250 | 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 |
195,633 | ||
| Derbish | ||||
| Desana | Colombia |
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| Dhivehis |  Maldives, India (Lakshadweep) |
400,000 | Indo-Aryan people native to the Maldives. | |
| Dhodia | India |
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| 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 | Turkic | Russia ( Krasnoyarsk Krai) |
7,261 | |
| Doma | Zimbabwe |
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| Dominicans |  Dominican Republic |
10,090,000 | ||
| Dominican American | United States |
1,414,703 | Dominican diaspora in the United States. | |
| Don Cossacks | Slavic | Russia, Ukraine |
200,000 - 2,000,000 | |
| Dong | China |
2,960,293 | ||
| Dongxiang | China |
513,805 | ||
| Dorze | Ethiopia |
28,000 | ||
| Dravidians | Dravidian | India (Southern India) Sri Lanka |
217,000,000 | |
| Drung | China |
7,000 | ||
| Druze | Semitic | 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 | Germanic |  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 | Semitic | Egypt, Libya, United States, France |
88,000,000 | |
| Elema | Papua New Guinea |
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| Enets | Russia, Ukraine |
237 | Traditionally nomadic Samoyedic people. | |
| Enga | Papua New Guinea |
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| English | Germanic | United Kingdom, United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, Zimbabwe |
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 |
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| Eskimo | Eskimo-Aleut | Russia (Siberia), United States (Alaska), Canada,  Greenland |
150,000 | See also Inuit and Yupik. |
| Estonians | Finnic | Estonia |
1,100,000 | Finnic people. |
| European Americans | Germanic | United States |
231,992,377(2012 Census Estimate)[3] | European Americans are the largest ethnic group in the United States. Note: While the Census Bureau includes Middle Eastern and North African residents in its definition of "White", the vast majority of this population is of European descent. |
| Evens | Tunguistic | Russia |
20,000 | |
| Evenki | Tunguistic | Russia China |
67,000 | |
| Ewe | Ghana, Togo |
4,800,000 | Part of the Gbe linguistic/culture group. | |
| Falasha/Beta Israel | Israel, Ethiopia |
125,000 - 130,000 | ||
| Fante | Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire |
3,000,000 | Akan people. | |
| Faroese | Germanic |  Faroe Islands, Denmark,  Iceland,  Norway |
80,000 - 90,000 | Germanic people. |
| Persians | Iranian | Iran, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Iraq, United States |
81,000,000 | |
| 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 |
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| Fijian |  Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, United States, United Kingdom |
500,000 | Melanesian group, central South Pacific Ocean. | |
| Finns | Finnic |  Finland |
5,400,000 | |
| Flemish | Germanic |  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. | |
| 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. | ||
| Franconians | Germany |
Inhabitants of the eastern part of former Francia in Germany. | ||
| French | Romance | France, Canada |
106,000,000 (65,800,000) | Includes people with French ancestry (brackets denote completely French). |
| Frisians | Germanic | 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) |
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| Gaels |  Ireland, Scotland, Isle of Man, United States, Canada |
1,690,294 | Celtic people originating in Ireland. | |
| Gagauz | Turkic |  Moldova ( Gagauzia) Ukraine |
240,000 | |
| 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) |
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| Geba Buru | Indonesia (Buru) |
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| Gelao | China |
550,000 | ||
| Georgian | Georgia |
3,956,000 | ||
| Germans | Germanic | Germany, United States, Brazil |
150,000,000 | Largest of the Germanic peoples. Includes people with German ancestry (Diaspora). |
| Gia Rai | Vietnam |
332,557 | Also known as Jarai. | |
| Giay | ||||
| Gibraltarians |  Gibraltar, United Kingdom, United States, Spain |
40,000 | People of Gibraltarian origin. | |
| Gie Trieng | ||||
| Godoberis | Dagestan |
3,000 | ||
| Gogodali | Papua New Guinea |
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| Gongduk | Bhutan |
2,100 | ||
| Gorals |  Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic |
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| Gorani | Serbia |
13,946 - 60,000 | Slavic people in Serbia | |
| Goshute | United States (Nevada, Utah) |
450 | Native American peoples. | |
| Gotlanders | Sweden |
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| Goulaye | ||||
| Greeks | Hellenic | 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | Armenian | Turkey, Russia, Abkhazia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan |
700,000 | An Armenian ethnic group mostly in Turkey. |
| Han Chinese | Sinitic | 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 |
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| 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 | Iranian | Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Canada |
6,900,000 | inhabitants of Afghanistan and Pakistan, who have Mongol descent. |
| Herero | Namibia, Botswana, Angola |
240,000 | most live in Namibia. | |
| Hesquiat | Canada (British Columbia) |
680 | 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 | Indo-Aryan | 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 | Romance | 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) |
81 | Native Americans inhabiting western Washington. | |
| 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 |
43,929 | Native Americans in Mexico. | |
| Hungarians | Ugric | Hungary Austria Romania Slovakia Serbia ( Vojvodina) |
13,200,000 - 14,500,000 | also known as Magyars. |
| 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. | |
| Huron | United States (Michigan, Oklahoma, Kansas), Canada (Quebec) |
8,900 | Eastern United States Native American. Also known 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 | Germanic | Iceland |
450,000 | Majority ethnic group of Iceland. |
| Igbo | Nigeria |
30,000,000 | A West African people based primarily in the southeastern part of Nigeria. Their language is also called Igbo. | |
| 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-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-Guyanese | Guyana |
327,000 | Guyanese people of (South Asian) Indian origins. | |
| Indo-Jamaicans | India |
East Indians from Jamaica) as a result of British indentureship in the 19th and 20th 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. | ||
| Ingushes | Northeast Caucasian | 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. | ||
| Irish | Celtic | Ireland |
80,000,000 | |
| 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 | Romance | 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 ] | Japonic | 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 | Hungary |
(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[citation needed] throughout Indonesia. | |
| Jebala | 1,000,000 | an ethnic group of northern Morocco. | ||
| Jemez | USA |
Pueblo Indians of New Mexico. | ||
| Jing | 22,517 | |||
| Jingpo | 1,130,000 | an ethnic group in Yunnan. | ||
| Jino | 22,000 | |||
| Jorcharias | ||||
| Jivaro | Peru Ecuador |
An ethnic minority in Peru and Ecuador. | ||
| Jola | Senegal |
500,000 | ||
| Jopadhola | Uganda |
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| Jri | ||||
| Kalasha of Chitral | Pakistan |
4,100 | an ethnic group in Pakistan. | |
| Kale |  Wales |
Romani people in Wales. | ||
| Kalenjin |  Kenya |
4,967,328 | ||
| Kallawaya | Peru |
an ethnic minority in Peru. | ||
| Kaliai | an ethnic minority group in Papua. | |||
| Kalispel | USA |
400 | ||
| Kalaallit | Greenland |
50,000 | Inuit living in Greenland. | |
| Kalmyks | Mongolic | Russia ( Kalmykia) |
184,000 | |
| Kaluli | Papua New Guinea |
an ethnic minority group in Papua. | ||
| Kamas | USA |
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| Kamayura | Brazil |
467 | An ethnic minority in Brazil. | |
| Kannadiga | India |
45,000,000 | people from Karnataka, India. | |
| Kanembu | Chad |
655,000 | ||
| Kapauku | a Papuan ethnic group speaking Ekari. | |||
| Kapampangan | Philippines |
2,890,000 | A Filipino ethnic group. | |
| Karachay | Turkic | Russia ( Karachay-Cherkessia) |
300,000 | |
| Karaims | Turkic | Ukraine |
2,000 | |
| Karajá | Brazil |
3,000 | An ethnic minority in Brazil. | |
| Karakalpaks | Turkic | Uzbekistan ( Karakalpakstan) |
520,000 | |
| Karamanlides | Greece |
Turkish-speaking Orthodox Christians, native to the Karaman and Cappadocia regions of Anatolia, were transfered to Greece in the 1920s. | ||
| Karamojong | Uganda |
a people primarily of northeastern Uganda. | ||
| Karatas | ||||
| Karelians | Finnic | Russia Finland |
70,000 | Finnic people in Finland and Karelia, northeastern Europe. |
| Karen | Burma Thailand |
9,000,000 | Southeast Asia. | |
| Karok | USA |
4,800 | Natives of California, USA. | |
| Kashubians | Poland |
500,000 | a Slavic people of northern Europe. | |
| Katang | Laos |
95,440 | ||
| Katuquina | ||||
| Kavango | Namibia |
200,000 | ||
| Kaw or Kansa Indians | USA |
3,126 | Midwestern Native Americans. | |
| Kayapo | Brazil |
8,638 | An ethnic minority in Brazil. | |
| Kazakhs | Turkic | Kazakhstan, China |
13,600,000 | |
| Kenyah | Indonesia |
69,256 | Indonesia. | |
| Kenyan American | USA |
92,638 | Current president of the United States Barack Obama has a Kenyan father. [citation needed] | |
| Keresan | ||||
| Kets | Russia |
1,600 | ||
| Khakas | Turkic | Russia ( Khakassia) |
80,000 | |
| Khang | Vietnam |
13,840 | ||
| Khants | Ugric | Russia ( Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug) |
28,000 | |
| Khasia | ||||
| Khassonké | Mali |
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| Khevi | ||||
| Khevsureti | ||||
| Khinalugs | Azerbaijan |
2,075 | ||
| Khmer | Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam |
16,000,000 | Largest ethnic group in Cambodia. Also found in neighbouring countries. | |
| Khmu | Austroasiatic languages | Laos Burma China Thailand Vietnam |
540,000 | |
| Kho Mu | Laos |
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| Khoikhoi | Southern Africa. | |||
| Khomani or Nu | ||||
| Khufis | Tajikistan |
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| Khvarchis | ||||
| Kickapoo | USA Mexico |
5,000 | Native Americans of the USA and a small Kickapoo tribal community in the Rio Grande valley of Texas and northern Mexico. | |
| Kĩkũyũ | Kenya |
6,623,000 | Native to the African country of Kenya. | |
| Kinh or Jing or Vietnamese | Vietnam USA Cambodia |
77,000,000 | Majority ethnic group in Vietnam. | |
| Kiowa | USA |
12,000 | Native Americans of the Great Plains of the United States. | |
| Klallam | USA Canada |
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| Klamath | USA |
Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest (USA). | ||
| Klikitat | USA |
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| Knanaya | India |
300,000 | 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 | USA |
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| 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 | Finnic | Russia |
295,000 | |
| Koniag | USA |
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 | USA Canada |
1,984 | ||
| Koptian | an ethno-religious group, most live in Egypt. | |||
| Korean | Korea, Republic of, North Korea |
80,000,000 | from the Korean Peninsula. | |
| Korowai | Indonesia |
3,000 | An ethnic minority in Papua. | |
| Koryaks | Russia |
8,812 | An ethnic minority in Russia. | |
| Kosraean | Ethnic group at Kosrae, part of the Federated States of Micronesia. | |||
| Koskimo | Canada |
5,500 | ||
| Koyukon | USA |
2,300 | Natives of Alaska. | |
| Kozaks | Natives of United States. | |||
| Kpelle | Guinea Liberia |
1,220,000 | Group from Guinea and Liberia. | |
| Kraho | Natives of northwestern Brazil. | |||
| Krashovans | Romania |
5,000 | ||
| Kri | Group from Sierra Leone, western Africa. | |||
| Kristang | Malaysia Singapore |
A creole ethnic group in Malacca, Malaysia and Singapore. | ||
| Krymchaks | Turkic | a Jewish Turkic people living in Crimea. | ||
| Kuban Cossacks | Slavic | |||
| Kubu | Indonesia |
Indonesia. | ||
| Kuikuru | An ethnic minority in Brazil. | |||
| Kuna |  Panama Colombia |
50,000 | an ethnic minority in Panama. | |
| Kumeyaay | USA Mexico |
5,000 | ||
| Kumyks | Turkic | Russia ( Dagestan) |
500,000 | |
| Kurds | Iranian | 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 | Turkic | Kyrgyzstan |
4,500,000 | |
| La Chi | ||||
| La Ha | Vietnam |
8,177 | ||
| Lahu | China Burma Thailand |
1,000,000 | ||
| Laguna | USA |
Pueblo Indians of New Mexico. | ||
| Laigain | from the northwestern region of Gaul. | |||
| Lakota | USA |
100,000 | Native Americans of the Great Plains of the United States and Canada. | |
| Laks | Russia |
180,000 | Caucasus. | |
| Lamet | Laos Thailand |
22,000 | ||
| Langi (also Lango) – an ethnic group of Uganda (a Luo people) | ||||
| Lao | Laos |
3,800,000 | southeast Asia. | |
| Lao American | USA |
232,130 | ||
| Lao Sung | Laos |
200,000 | the People's Republic of China, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. | |
| Lao Theung | Laos |
2,000,000 | Laos. | |
| Latgalians | Latvia |
150,000 | Baltic people in Eastern part of Latvia, northeastern Europe. | |
| Latvians | Latvia |
1,650,000 | Baltic people of northeastern Europe. | |
| Lavae | ||||
| Laven | ||||
| Layap | Bhutan |
1,100 | ethnic minority in the North of India. | |
| Laz | Kartvelian | Georgia Turkey |
202,000 | |
| Lazoi | ||||
| Lebou | Senegal |
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| Lemkos | Poland Slovakia |
66,000 | Slavic mountain people of Central Europe (Ukraine, Poland and Slovakia). | |
| Lenca | Honduras El Salvador |
137,000 | An ethnic minority in Honduras. | |
| Lengua | An ethnic minority in Argentina. | |||
| Leonese | Spain |
1,000,000 | A European people in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsule (Spain and Portugal). Their language is Leonese. | |
| Lezgis | Northeast Caucasian | Russia ( Dagestan) Azerbaijan |
900,000 | |
| Lhoba | China |
5,600 | ||
| Lhotshampa | Bhutan |
240,000 | 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 | China (Hainan) |
1,460,000 | ||
| Limbus | Nepal |
463,000 | ||
| Limburgish | speaking people of the tri-national area of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. | |||
| Lipka Tatars | Turkic | Belarus Lithuania Poland |
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| Lipovans | Romania |
36,000 | Danube Delta, Romania. | |
| Lisu | China Thailand Burma |
1,200,000 | an ethnic minority in Thailand. | |
| Lithuanians | Lithuania |
4,000,000 | Baltic people of central Europe. Lithuanians live worldwide, especially North America (the US and Canada), and South America ( Brazil). | |
| Livonians | Latvia |
204 | Finnic people in Latvia, northeastern Europe. | |
| Lo Lo | ||||
| Lobi | Ghana Burkina Faso Côte d'Ivoire |
160,000 | ||
| Lotuko | South Sudan |
100,000 | ||
| Louisiana Creole people | USA |
United States Louisiana. | ||
| Lozi | Zambia |
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| Loyalists of Ontario and New Brunswick | ||||
| Lua | Laos |
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 | China Laos |
2,000,000 | ||
| Luhya | Kenya |
6,100,000 | 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 | USA |
2,500 | Native Americans of Southern California (USA). | |
| Lumad | Philippines |
A Filipino minority ethnic group. | ||
| Lumbee | USA |
55,000 | Native Americans of the Carolinas (USA). | |
| Lummi | USA |
6,590 | Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest (USA). | |
| Lunda | DRC Zambia Angola |
1,450,000 | an ethnic minority group in DR Congo. | |
| Lun Bawang/Lun Dayeh (Borneo) | Indonesia Malaysia Brunei |
38,100 | an ethnic minority group in (Malaysia,Brunei,Indonesia) | |
| Luo (also Joluo) | Kenya Tanzania |
6,000,000 | a people of Kenya and Tanzania (part of the larger Luo group). | |
| Luso-Brazilians | See Portuguese Brazilian | |||
| Luso-American | USA |
1,477,335 | See Portuguese American | |
| Luxembourgers | Germanic |  Luxembourg |
430,000 | ethnic group native to Luxembourg. |
| Luxembourg American | USA |
40,658 | ||
| Maasai | Kenya Tanzania |
1,270,000 | people of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. | |
| Macaoese | Macau |
500,000 | People of Macau origin. Known as 'Macaísta' in Portuguese. | |
| Macedonians | Slavic | Macedonia |
2,000,000 - 2,200,000 | See also Macedonian Bulgarians. |
| Macuxi | Brazil Guyana |
30,000 | ||
| Madeirans |  Madeira |
267,785 | ||
| Madheshis | Nepal |
2,600,000 | ||
| Madurese | Indonesia |
7,179,356 | ||
| Magar people | Nepal |
1,900,000 | ||
| Marwari | People from Mewar, Rajasthan, Indian region, generally known for their trading skills | |||
| Mewat | Ethnic group from Mewat, Rajasthan, Indian region | |||
| Mahican | USA |
Native Americans from New England. | ||
| Mahorian | ||||
| Maidu | USA |
2,500 | Native Americans of Northern California (USA). | |
| Mailu | an ethnic minority group in Papua. | |||
| Maingtha | See Achang. | |||
| Maka | Cameroon |
90,000 | people of southern Cameroon. | |
| Makah | USA |
1,213 | ||
| Makong | ||||
| Makua |  Mozambique |
1,160,000 | ||
| 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 | India |
35,757,100 | People of Kerala State, South India. | |
| Maliseet | USA Canada |
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| Maltese | Semitic |  Malta |
1,000,000 | |
| Mam | Guatemala Mexico |
640,000 | a Maya people of Guatemala. | |
| Mamamwa | an ethnic minority in the Philippines. | |||
| Manasi | An ethnic minority in Bolivia. | |||
| Manchu | China |
10,000,000 | Manchuria, now part of the People's Republic of China, north of Korea. | |
| Mandan | USA |
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 | Vietnam |
4,500 | ||
| Mangbetu | DRC |
an ethnic minority in DR Congo. | ||
| Mangyan | Philippines |
100,000 | A Filipino minority ethnic group. | |
| Mansis | Ugric | Russia ( Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug) |
12,500 | |
| Manx |  England |
40,000 | indigenous people of the Isle of Man. | |
| Maonan | China |
107,000 | ||
| Māori | New Zealand |
750,000 | indigenous people of New Zealand. | |
| Mapuche | Chile Argentina |
1,700,000 | Non-homogeneous peoples of South America, inhabiting Chile and western Argentina. | |
| Marathis | Indo-Aryan | 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 | Russia |
600,000 | Uralic. | |
| Maricopa | USA |
800 | ||
| Marind-Anim | an ethnic minority in Papua New Guinea. | |||
| Mashantucket Pequots | USA |
785 | Native Americans of New England. | |
| Matabele | Southern Africa. | |||
| Mataco | Argentina |
42,000 | An ethnic minority in Argentina. | |
| Matis | Brazil |
390 | ethnic minority. | |
| Mattaponi | USA |
1,000 | ||
| Maubere | ||||
| Mauritian | People from the island of Mauritius. | |||
| Maya | Guatemala Mexico Belize Honduras El Salvador |
6,000,000 | 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 | Mexico |
40,000 | An ethnic minority in Mexico. | |
| Mazandarenis | Iran |
4,000,000 | Southern Caspian people. | |
| M'Baka | CAR DRC |
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| Mbaya | Paraguay Brazil |
An ethnic minority in Paraguay. | ||
| Mbochi | Congo |
third largest ethnic group of the Republic of the Congo. | ||
| Mbuti | DRC |
30,000 | ||
| Megleno-Romanians | Romance | Greece |
6,000 | a Vlach ethnic group in Greece. |
| Meherrin | USA |
900 | ||
| Mekeo | an ethnic minority group in Papua. | |||
| Melungeons of the Southeastern United States | USA |
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| Memon | India Pakistan |
ethnic group in India and Pakistan. | ||
| Menba | India China Burma |
78,000 | ||
| Mende | Sierra Leone Liberia |
2,000,000 | an ethnic group in Sierra Leone (a Mande people). | |
| Menominee | USA |
8,700 | Eastern United States Native American. | |
| Mennonites | USA |
1,700,000 | They are divided into ** The Amish or the Pennsylvania Dutch, and ** The Hutterites. | |
| Mentawai | Indonesia |
64,000 | Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra, Indonesia. | |
| Mer | India |
Saurashtra, Gujarat, India. | ||
| Meskhetians | ||||
| Mestizo | Romance | Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada (Metís), Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, 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 | Canada USA |
390,000 | ||
| Meitei | India |
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 | USA |
3,500 | ||
| Mbuti | DRC |
30,000 | an ethnic minority group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. | |
| Miccosukee | USA |
400 | Eastern United States Native American. | |
| Mi'kmaq | USA Canada |
65,000 | Eastern United States and Atlantic Canada Native American. | |
| Mina | India |
Meenas, Meena or Mina is a community mainly found in Rajasthan, India. | ||
| Mekeo | an ethnic minority group in Papua. | |||
| Miao | China |
9,000,000 | Ethnic minority group primarily spread out across southern China. | |
| Minahasa/Manadonese | Northern Part of Sulawesi, Indonesia. | |||
| Minangkabau | Indonesia |
8,000,000 | West Sumatra, Indonesia. | |
| Mingo people | USA |
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| Mingrelians | Kartvelian | Georgia |
400,000 | sub-group of Georgians. |
| Miskito | Nicaragua Honduras |
200,000 | native people of coastal Nicaragua. | |
| Mission | ||||
| Mizrahi Jews | Israel |
1,750,000 | see also Arab Jews | |
| Mitsogo | Gabon |
an ethnic minority group in Gabon. | ||
| Miwok | Native Americans of Northern California (USA). | |||
| Mixtec | Mexico USA |
830,000 | Central American natives. Live in Mexico. | |
| Mizo | India Bangladesh Burma |
1,500,000 | an ethnic minority in Bangladesh. | |
| Mlabri | Laos |
300 | an ethnic minority in Laos. | |
| Mnong | Vietnam Cambodia |
102,741 | ||
| Modoc | USA |
800 | Native Americans of the Western United States. | |
| Mohajir | Pakistan |
13,000,000 | Descendents of Indian immigrants to Pakistan at the time of partition. | |
| Mohave | USA |
767 | Native Americans of the southwest United States. | |
| Mohawk | USA |
Eastern United States Native American. | ||
| Mohegan | USA |
1,300 | ||
| Mokshas | Russia |
296,000 | Finnic people in Middle Volga area | |
| Molise Croats | Italy |
5,000 | ||
| Mon | Burma Thailand |
8,100,000 | southeast Asia, particularly Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and China. | |
| Monacan | USA |
2,000 | Native American ethnic group from the Eastern United States. | |
| Monesque | people from Monaco. | |||
| Mongo | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
12,000,000 | ||
| Mongols | Mongolic | Mongolia China Russia |
11,000,000 | Majority in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia, China. |
| Mono | Native Americans from Eastern California and Nevada. | |||
| Monovish | Ireland, United Kingdom |
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| Montagnais | Canada |
18,000 | Native Americans of Canada. | |
| Montaukett | USA |
600 | ||
| Montenegrins | Slavic | Montenegro Serbia |
343,000 | 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 | Czech Republic Slovakia |
525,000 | 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 | New Zealand |
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 | Philippines |
9,800,000 | the largest and most dominant non-Christian minority in the Philippines. | |
| Mossi | Burkina Faso Côte d'Ivoire Ghana |
7,500,000 | an ethnicgroup in Burkina Faso. | |
| Motuan | Papua New Guinea |
an ethnic minority in Papua New Guinea. | ||
| Muckleshoot | USA |
3,300 | 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 | China |
207,000 | ||
| Mulatto | Blacks with mixed European and African ancestry, but the terminology "Mulatto" has become considered racially charged in the USA. | |||
| Mundas | India |
9,000,000 | ||
| Mundurucu | Brazil |
11,630 | An ethnic minority in Brazil. | |
| Muong | Vietnam |
1,268,963 | ||
| Mursi | Ethiopia |
7,500 | ||
| Museu | ||||
| Myene | Gabon |
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| Naga | India Burma |
2,000,000 | (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 | South Africa Namibia Botswana |
100,000 | ||
| Nanais | Russia China |
18,000 | ||
| Nansemond | USA |
200 | ||
| Narragansett | USA |
2,400 | native Americans of New England. | |
| Nasia | an ethnic minority group in New Guinea. | |||
| Natchez | USA Mexico |
6,000 | An ethnic minority in Mexico. | |
| Nauruan |  Nauru |
6,000 | Micronesian group of islands in the Pacific Ocean. | |
| Navajo | USA |
300,000 | Native Americans of the southwest United States. Mostly situated in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. Largest Native American tribal nation in the USA. [citation needed] | |
| Naxi | China |
300,000 | ||
| Ndau | Mozambique |
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| Ndebele | South Africa Zimbabwe |
700,000 | an ethnic group of southern Africa (a Nguni people). | |
| Negidals | Russia |
550 | ||
| Negrito | Umbrella term of many minority groups of the Maritime Southeast Asia. | |||
| Nenets | Russia |
45,000 | Samoyedic people living in Russia. | |
| Nespelem | USA |
alternate spelling Nespelim or Nespilim; Salish Native Americans of eastern Washington State. | ||
| Nevisian of the island of Saint Nevis |  Saint Kitts and Nevis |
12,000 | ||
| Newar | Tibeto-Burman | Nepal |
1,320,000 | Indigenous people of Kathmandu. |
| Nez Percé | USA |
3,500 | Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area. | |
| Ngasan | An ethnic minority in Russia. | |||
| Ngae | ||||
| Ngái | Vietnam |
1,000 | ||
| Nganasans | Russia |
1,000 | Samoyedic people. | |
| Nhahuen | ||||
| Nhuon | ||||
| Niominka | Senegal |
10,000 | ||
| Nipmuc | USA |
1,400 | ||
| Nishka | Canada |
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| Nisqually | USA |
588 | ||
| Nisei | see Japanese American along with Sansei. | |||
| Nisse | ||||
| Nivkh | Russia |
5,800 | An ethnic minority in Russia. | |
| Niuean – Polynesian |  Niue |
1,400 | island in the Pacific Ocean. | |
| Ni-Vanuatu |  Vanuatu |
245,000 | of Vanuatu, an island chain in the Pacific Ocean. | |
| Njem | Cameroon |
7,000 | people of southern Cameroon. | |
| Nogais | Turkic | Russia ( Dagestan) Romania |
128,000 | |
| Nomlaki | USA |
332 | ||
| Nooksack | USA |
1,800 | Native Americans of Washington. | |
| Northumbrians | ||||
| Norwegians | Germanic | Norway, Sweden USA Canada |
10,000,000 | Scandinavian people from the nation of Norway. |
| Nu | China |
27,000 | ||
| N/u or Khomani | ||||
| Nuba | Sudan |
1,000,000 | an ethnic minority group in Sudan. | |
| Nubians | Sudan Egypt |
1,700,000 | an African people native to the upper Nile Valley, between Egypt and Sudan. | |
| Nuer | South Sudan |
southern Sudan and western Ethiopia. | ||
| Nukak | Colombia |
550 | an ethnic minority in Colombia. | |
| Nung | Vietnam |
968,000 | ||
| Nuristani | Nuristani | Afghanistan |
300,000 | 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 |
| Nuu-chah-nulth | Canada |
9,323 | Native Americans of the Pacific northwest of North America. | |
| Nyagatom | ethnic minority in Ethiopia. | |||
| Nzema | Ghana Côte d'Ivoire |
500,000 | People living in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. | |
| O Du | Vietnam |
570 | ||
| Occitania | Occitan Language speaking peoples in Southern France. | |||
| Odawa | USA Canada |
15,000 | ||
| Ogaden | ||||
| Oglala | USA |
46,855 | Native Americans of the central United States. | |
| Ogoni | Nigeria |
850,000 | ||
| Ojibwa | USA Canada |
220,000 | 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 | Japan |
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| Omaha | USA |
6,000 | ||
| Omagua | An ethnic minority in Brazil. | |||
| Oneida | USA |
45,000 | ||
| Onondaga | USA |
5,000 | ||
| O'Odham | see Tohono O'Odham. | |||
| Oroch | Russia |
1,000 | ||
| Orokaiva | Papua New Guinea |
an ethnic minority group in Papua. | ||
| Oroks | Russia |
360 | ||
| Oromo | Ethiopia, Kenya |
34,000,000 | in East Africa. | |
| Oroqen | China |
8,000 | ||
| Oroshoris | ||||
| Osage Nation | USA |
16,000 | of Oklahoma. | |
| Ossetians | Iranian | Russia, South Ossetia, Georgia |
720,000 | |
| Otavaleño | Ecuador |
an ethnic minority in Ecuador. | ||
| Otoe-Missouria | USA |
2,554 | ||
| Ottawa | Native Americans. | |||
| Ovambo | Namibia |
1,500,000 | ||
| Pa Then | Vietnam |
6,811 | ||
| Pacoh | ||||
| Paiute | USA |
6,300 | Native Americans of the Western USA. | |
| Pākehā | New Zealand |
New Zealanders of European ancestry. | ||
| Palestinian |  Palestine Israel Jordan |
11,000,000 | Ethnic Arabs. | |
| Palcene | Bulgaria Serbia |
15,000 | ||
| Paliyan | India |
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| Pamunkey | USA |
200 | ||
| Panamanian | ||||
| Pandits | Sub ethnic group of Brahmin who are involved in spiritual work from India. | |||
| Pangasinan people | Philippines |
1,500,000 | A Filipino ethnic group. | |
| Panoan | ||||
| Pa-O | Burma |
600,000 | Burma. | |
| Pashu | Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore |
8,000,000 | Descendants of Chinese people in South East Asia. | |
| Pashtun | Iranian | 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 | USA Canada |
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| Pataxo | Brazil |
2,790 | ||
| Pattar | Belong to Vishwakarma community in India. Pattar actually means, 'Goldsmith'. | |||
| Pa-Thi | Burma. | |||
| Paugusset | USA |
100 | ||
| Pawnee | USA |
3,240 | Eastern United States Native American | |
| Pennsylvania Dutch | USA |
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 | Brunei Malaysia |
9,500 | ethnic minority in Malaysia. | |
| Pennsylvania German | USA |
people of many religious affiliations whose families were formerly Pennsylvania Dutch. Called Pennsylvania Dutch by some. | ||
| Penobscot | USA |
2,278 | Eastern United States Native American. | |
| Peoria | ||||
| Papel | Senegal, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau |
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| Perce | Native Americans. | |||
| Phong | ||||
| Phu La | Vietnam |
11,000 | ||
| Phu Noi | ||||
| Phu Thai | Thailand, Laos, Vietnam |
870,000 | ||
| Picardy | Picards. | |||
| 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 | USA |
Native Americans. | ||
| Pima | USA |
20,000 | Native Americans of the Southwest USA. | |
| Pit River Indians | USA |
1,800 | ||
| Pitcairn-Norfolk, microcosm of English settlers on two islands in the South Pacific. | ||||
| Pilaga | Argentina |
4,000 | An ethnic minority in Argentina. | |
| Pokot people | Uganda Kenya |
760,000 | ||
| Polabian Slavs | ||||
| Polish | Slavic | 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 | Turkey, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Greece |
500,000 | Slavic Muslims found in Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece. |
| Pomo | USA |
10,000 | Western United States Native American. Most live in California. | |
| Ponca | USA |
6,700 | Native Americans of the Great Plains (USA). | |
| Ponhpeian – ethnic group at Pohnpei, part of the Federated States of Micronesia. | ||||
| Pontic Greeks | Hellenic | Greece, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey |
3,000,000 | a population group in Greece and the southern coast of Black Sea. |
| Poospatuck | ||||
| Portuguese | Romance |  Portugal, Brazil |
115,000,000 | extreme southwest of Europe. Includes people with Portuguese ancestry. |
| Potawatomi | USA |
28,000 | Eastern United States Native American. | |
| Potiguara | Brazil |
12,000 | ||
| Powhatan | USA |
Eastern United States Native American. | ||
| Pu Peo | ||||
| Pueblo people | USA |
Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains-area and the desert Southwest USA. | ||
| Puelche | Chile |
An ethnic minority in Argentina and Chile. | ||
| Puerto Ricans | USA Puerto Rico |
8,500,000 | ||
| Puget Sound Salish | of Washington. | |||
| Purépecha | USA Mexico |
175,000 | Native Americans living in western Mexico. | |
| Punan | Malaysia |
5,000 | ||
| Pumi | China |
30,000 | ||
| 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 | USA |
4,000 | ||
| Qashqai | Turkic | Iran |
1,000,000 | |
| Q'eros | ||||
| Qiang | China |
200,000 | ||
| Quahatika | ||||
| Quapaw | USA |
3,240 | Native Americans of the Southern Plains (USA) | |
| Quechan | USA |
1,200 | ||
| Québécois | Canada |
9,721,365 | French Canadian | |
| Quechuas | Peru Bolivia Ecuador |
11,000,000 | South American people (various ethnic groups speaking Quechua) of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, and Chile | |
| Quiché (K'iche') | Guatemala |
1,270,000 | ||
| Quileute | USA |
2,000 | ||
| Quinault | USA |
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| Quinqui | Spain |
semi-nomadic group of Spain | ||
| Ra Glai | Vietnam |
122,245 | ||
| Rais | ||||
| Rajasthani | India |
13,000,000+ | Ethnic group from Rajasthan - Western part of India. | |
| Rakhine | Burma |
3,361,000 | Rakhine State, Burma | |
| Rakuba | an ethnic minority group in Chad | |||
| Ramapough Mountain Indians | USA |
2,654 | ||
| Rappahannock | USA |
500 | of the mid-Atlantic region of the United States | |
| Rashaida | Eritrea, Sudan |
270,000 | 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 | Vietnam |
436 | ||
| Rohingya | Burma, Bangladesh, Pakistan |
3,000,000 | Muslim minority group in North western Burma | |
| Romani | Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Hungary |
2,000,000 - 12,000,000 | An ethnic group consisting of Roma and Kale. | |
| Romanians | Romance | Romania Italy Spain |
23,623,890 | a Vlach ethnic group of the Balkans |
| Roshanis | ||||
| Rotuman | Fiji |
10,000 | Native of Rotuma, Fiji | |
| Russians | Slavic | 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 | USA, Slovakia, Serbia, Poland, Ukraine, Hungary |
1,200,000 | ||
| Ruthenians | ||||
| Rutuls | Russia |
35,000 | Dagestani | |
| Ryukyuans | the native inhabitants of the Ryukyus, a chain of islands starting about 200 km (124 mi) southwest of the Japanese mainland | |||
| Saarlanders of Saarland, Germany and adjacent part of France | Germany |
1,000,000 | ||
| Sadang | ||||
| Saek | Laos, Thailand |
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| Saho | Eritrea, Ethiopia |
213,000 | northern Ethiopia | |
| Saingolo | ||||
| Salar | China |
104,000 | ||
| Salish | USA, Canada |
of Washington and British Columbia. | ||
| Samanthan | India |
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| Samaritan | Israel, Palestine |
800 | ||
| Samegrelo | ||||
| Sami | Norway, USA, Sweden, Finland, Russia |
163,000 | Nordic (Norwegian, Finnic and Swedish) people, thought to be among the oldest ethnic groups in Europe. | |
| Sammarinese |  San Marino |
32,000 | People of San Marino | |
| Samoans |  Samoa, USA, New Zealand |
550,000 | 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 | Lithuania |
500,000 | 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 | ||||
| Saraikis | Pakistan (mainly in Punjab), India (mainly in Punjab and Rajasthan) |
25,000,000 - 39,000,000 | Found mainly in Punjab, Pakistan. Most Saraiki Hindus also moved to Gujarat and Rajasthan in India after partition | |
| 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 | ||||
| Scottish | Celtic | Scotland, United States, Canada, Australia |
28,000,000 - 40,000,000 | Ethnic group native to Scotland. Includes people with Scottish ancestry. |
| Sekani | ||||
| Selk'nam | ||||
| 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 | Slavic | 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 | Turkic | Russia ( Kemerovo Oblast) |
12,888 | |
| 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 | United States (SD, MN, NE, MT, ND), Canada (MB, SK, AB) |
170,110 | Northern Central United States | |
| Siuslaw | ||||
| Skagit | Native Americans | |||
| S'Klallam | ||||
| Skokomish | ||||
| Sḵwxwú7mesh | ||||
| Slavs | ||||
| Slovaks | Slavic | Slovakia |
6,000,000 | Slavic people of central Europe |
| Slovenes | Slavic |  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 | Slavic | concentrated Slavic minority in Germany (see also Wends and Lusatians) | ||
| Souei | ||||
| Southern Tutchone | ||||
| Spanish | Romance | Spain Diaspora: Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Cuba |
134,000,000 - 141,000,000 | A loosely defined ethno-linguistic group based in southwestern Europe, consisting of the inhabitants of Iberia and their descendants of Latin America. However, within Spain there are a number of different nationalisms and regionalisms, although they are often grouped as a single ethnicity due to their shared culture. |
| 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 | Kartvelian | Georgia |
sub-group of Georgians | |
| Aramean-Syriacs | ||||
| Swahili people | Tanzania, Kenya, Mozambique, Comoros |
1,328,000 | 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 | Germanic | 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 the 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 | |||
| Taiwanese aborigines | ||||
| Tajiks | Iranian | Tajikistan Afghanistan Uzbekistan China |
20,000,000 - 23,000,000 | |
| Taliang | ||||
| Talysh | Iranian | Iran Azerbaijan |
500,000 | |
| 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 | |||
| Tatars | Turkic | Russia ( Tatarstan) |
6,800,000 | |
| 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 | Tibeto-Burman | 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 | |||
| 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 | Niger Mali Algeria |
1,200,000 | |
| Tujia | China |
8,300,000 | ||
| Tukano | An ethnic minority in Brazil | |||
| Tukolor | ||||
| Tuamotu | Island group in French Polynesia; ethnically diverse from other French Polynesian islands[4] | |||
| 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 | |||
| Turkmens | Turkic | Turkmenistan Iran Afghanistan |
8,000,000 | |
| Turks | Turkic | Turkey  Northern Cyprus Germany Bulgaria |
70,000,000 | |
| Tusheti | ||||
| Tutsi | from Rwanda, Burundi and southern Africa | |||
| Tuvaluans | a Polynesian ethnic group originated in Tuvalu | |||
| Tuvans | Turkic | Russia ( Tuva) |
280,000 | |
| 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 | Slavic | 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 | |||
| Uyghurs | Turkic | China (Xinjiang) |
10,000,000 | |
| Uzbeks | Turkic | Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan |
30,000,000 | |
| Vaccaei | ancient people group in Northern Spain | |||
| Valencians | Romance | Spain |
Related to Catalan people, but are culturally distinct from Catalonians | |
| 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 | Romance | 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) [citation needed] | |||
| Wampanoag | ||||
| Wasco | ||||
| Washoe | ||||
| Wayana | An ethnic minority in Guyana | |||
| Welayta people | people of southern Ethiopia | |||
| Welsh | Celtic | Wales |
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| 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 |
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| Xin Uygurs | China (Xinjiang) |
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| 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 | Russia ( Sakha Republic) |
478,700 | |
| Yang | ||||
| Yankton Sioux | Native Americans | |||
| Yanomami | the Amazon River basin, Brazil | |||
| Yao | Thailand, China |
2,900,000 | ||
| Yavapai: Yavapai-Apache Nation, Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe | ||||
| Yapese | Ethnic group at Yap Island, part of the Federated States of Micronesia.[5] | |||
| Yaqui | Native Americans | |||
| Yawanawa | ||||
| Yawalpiti | Native Americans | |||
| Yazgulamis | ||||
| Yekuana | An ethnic minority in Venezuela | |||
| Yi | China |
8,700,000 | ||
| Yocha-Dehe | ||||
| Yokut | ||||
| Yoruba | Nigeria, Benin |
40,000,000 | an ethnic group in Nigeria, Benin and Togo | |
| Yörüks | Turkic | Turkey Macedonia |
? | semi-nomadic subgroup of Turkish people living in the 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) |
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| Zapotec | Mexico |
1,100,000 | Native Mexicans living in southern Mexico. | |
| Zarma | Niger (western) |
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| Zazas | Iranian | Turkey |
1,000,000 - 2,000,000 | |
| Zhuang | China (Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region) |
18,000,000 | ||
| Zou | India |
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| Zulian | Venezuela (Zulia) |
4,000,000 | ||
| Zulu | South Africa |
10,600,000 | ||
| Zuni | United States |
12,000 | Native American
Lorma People Liberia 14,000 |
Related lists by status
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
- ^ http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Wlth0GRi0N0C&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&dq=cossacks+5+million&source=bl&ots=purTJ9C_v1&sig=KHgSIEp-mkmNOdJ3WRQGu46-7dw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VUWJUqjOBtOI7Aat24HgDw&ved=0CHcQ6AEwCw#v=onepage&q=cossacks%205%20million&f=false
- ^ http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/20451288?uid=2&uid=4&sid=21102984300063
- ^ http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_12_1YR_DP05&prodType=table
- ^ Tuamotus ethnically diverse from other French Polynesian Islands
- ^ 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
