The following is a list of lists of ethnic groups:
By region
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- North America
- Mesoamerica
- South America
By linguistic phylum
By status
By alphabet
A
- Abzinz - minority in Abkhazia, Karachay-Cherkessia and Adygeya of Russia
- Abenaki - Native Americans of Quebec, Vermont, New Hampshire, and possibly Maine and Nova Scotia
- Abipones - An ethnic minority in Argentina
- Abkhazs - Minority in Georgia, Turkey and Russia, perhaps plurality (since 1993 civil war) in Abkhazia
- Aborigines, indigenous peoples of mainland Australia.
- Acadian - French-Canadians of the Canadian Maritimes
- Accohannock - Native Americans of Maryland
- Achang - Yunnan, the People's Republic of China
- Acelmese - an ethnic minority in Indonesia
- Acholi - an ethnic group of northern Uganda (a Luo people)
- Achomawi - Native Americans of California
- Acoma - Native Americans of the southwest United States and Mexico
- Adi - ethnic minority in Africa
- Adjarians - sub-group of Georgians of muslim religion
- Adyghe - Minority in Russia, in the north Caucasus region and Turkey.
- Adyhaffe
- Aeta - an ethnic minority in the Philippines
- Afar - in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. Also known as Danakil
- African-American - citizens of the United States descended from West African slaves
- African Canadian
- African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem - an ethnic minority of coloured people in Israel
- African immigration to Puerto Rico
- Afrikaners - South African descendants of mostly Dutch ancestry, but also including the descendants of French Huguenot and German Protestant refugees, who intermarried with the Dutch settlers and adopted Afrikaans as their mother tongue - e.g., the French name 'Le Clerque' became the Afrikaans name 'De Klerk.'
- Afro Argentine
- Afro Bolivian
- Afro-Brazilian
- Afro-Chilean
- Afro-Colombian
- Afro-Costa Rican
- Afro-Cuban
- Afro-Dominican
- Afro-Ecuadorian people
- Afro-Germans
- Afro-Guyanese
- Afro-Latino
- Afro-Irish
- Afro-Italian
- Afro-Jamaican
- Afro-Mexican
- Afro-Peruvian
- Afro-Polish
- Afro-Portuguese
- Afro-Trinidadian
- Afro-Uruguayan
- Aftsarians or Isaurians
- Agaw - ethnic group in northern Ethiopia
- Agni - minority group in Côte d'Ivoire
- Aguls - Dagestani minority group
- Ahtna - Alaska Natives, along the Copper River
- Aimaq - Minority group in Afghanistan
- Ainu - Natives of Hokkaidō, much of Sakhalin, the Kuriles, and at one time northern Honshū, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Amur River basin
- Aynu of China - different from the Ainu of Japan and Russia.
- Aja - ethnic group in Benin and Togo (part of the Gbe linguistic/culture group)
- Aka
- Akie - ethnic minority in Africa
- Ak Chin - Native American group now resident in Pinal County, Arizona on the Tohono O'odham reservation
- Akan - People of West Africa, inhabiting principally Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire; linguistic group, not quite an ethnic group
- Akha - an ethnic minority in Thailand
- Akuapem - People living in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana
- Akhvakhs
- Akyem - People living in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana
- Alabama - Native American people from whom the state takes its name; now sharing a reservation in Texas with the Coushatta
- Alak - from Laos
- Albanians - a Balkan people, living in Albania, Kosovo, southern Serbia, western Macedonia, Montenegro, Greece, Turkey and southern Italy
- Albanian American
- Aleut - Alaska Natives, mainly in the Aleutian Islands, as well as Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia
- Algonquian - Native Americans of the eastern United States and Canada; Language group
- Aliutors
- Altaic peoples - Non-homogeneous peoples of the Altay Mountains region
- Amahuaca - An ethnic minority in Bolivia
- Americo-Liberians - Mulatto African Americans were given reparations for slavery in the form of their own country back in their homeland and this is Liberia, so they are Liberians.
- Amhara - central Ethiopia
- Amish - North American religious minority, of German descent
- Amungme - ethnic group of Papua province, Indonesia
- Andalusians - Latin European people. Inhabitants of southern Iberia.
- Andis
- Anga - an ethnic minority group in Papua
- Anglo-Celtic Australian - Majority inhabitants of Australia with mixed English and Celtic (especially Irish and Scottish, but also Welsh and even Cornish and Manx) ancestry.
- Anglo-Indian - People of mixed Indian and English ancestry, living in India and England, or people of British ancestry living in India
- Anglo-Saxon - Historically, a collective name for the Germanic tribes resident Great Britain since the 5th century, especially prior to the Norman Conquest. Became the largest group to form the English people.
- Annamites or Vietnamese or Kinh or Jing - Majority ethnic group of Vietnam.
- Ansar people or Ansarie
- Anuak - a people living in southwestern Sudan and western Ethiopia
- Apaches - groups of Native Americans in the western plains of the United States
- Apinaje - Indigenous group of Brazil
- Arab - originally from Arabia, now widespread throughout the Middle East and North Africa (see Arabization)
- Araon - an ethnic minority in China
- Aragonese - 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 - Native American people, formerly inhabiting Colorado and Wyoming, now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming
- Arawak - natives of the Caribbean
- Arbëreshë - an Albanian population in Italy
- Archis
- Arikara - Native American people from the upper Midwest United States
- Armenians - natives of Eastern Anatolia, living primarily in Armenia, Russia, Iran, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey with a large worldwide diaspora
- Aromanians (or Macedo-Romanians) - a population group of Greece, Serbia, the Republic of Macedonia, Albania and Bulgaria
- Arvanites - an Albanian-speaking population in Greece
- Atoni - an ethnic minority in East Timor
- Indo-Iranians/Aryans - ancient inhabitants of South Asia (excluding Southern India), Central Asia and the Iranian plateau, ("Aryan" can also refer to Indo-Aryans, who are inhabiting the majority of South Asia, as well as Afghanistan
- Asante (Ashanti)
- Asheninka Indigenous groups of Peru
- Ashkenazi - mainly Jews who migrated north west out of the Levant and settled (and travelled) in Eastern Europe and Russia.
- Asmat - Indonesian Ethnic Group from Papua Province
- Assiniboine - Native American people living in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Montana; one of the Sioux peoples
- Assyrians - Middle Eastern, principally in Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey with large diaspora
- Asturians - an ethnic and linguistic group in northwestern Spain, next to Galicia.
- Atta - an ethnic minority in the Philippines
- Ati - an ethnic minority in the Philippines
- Atikamekw
- Atsina - Native American people inhabiting Montana and formerly Saskatchewan
- Atsugewi
- Aukstaitians - Lithuanian sub-group
- Australian aborigine - generic name for native inhabitants of Australia
- Austrians[1]
- Avars - inhabitants of the Russian republic of Dagestan
- Awá - an endangered Amazonian tribe of hunter-gatherers
- Aymaras - South American people of Bolivia and Peru
- Ayta - an ethnic minority in the Philippines
- Azeris (Azerbaijanis) - an ethnic group in Azerbaijan, northern Iran, Russia, Georgia, and Turkey.
- Aztecs - Native North American people, descendants widespread in Mexico
B
- Babongo - ethnic minority in Gabon
- Badui -* Ba Na - inhabitants of Vietnam
- Baggara or Baqqarah - Sudan
- Baguirmi - inhabitants of Chad
- Bagulals
- Bai - national minority of the People's Republic of China, inhabiting Yunnan province
- Bajau - Ethnic group of in Borneo and the Philippines; Known as Sea Gypsies, they touch land only to bury their dead.
- Baka - one of the Pygmy peoples of central Africa. They live in Cameroon and its surrounding area. See also Twa, Aka, Mbuti, Binga and Gelli Efé.
- Bakhtiyari - an ethnic minority in Iran
- Balinese - ethnic group primarily found in Indonesia
- Bakongo/Kongo - majority population of the Republic of the Congo; also living in Angola
- Balkars - people of the northern Caucasus, mainly inhabiting the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria
- Baloch (also Baluch, Balochi) - traditionally nomadic Muslim people of Balochistan in southwestern Pakistan, southern Afghanistan and southeastern Iran
- Baltic Germans
- Bamar (also Burmese and Burman) - the majority ethnic group of Burma
- Bambara - group living chiefly in Mali and Senegal (part of the Manding linguistic/cultural subgroup of the Mandé peoples)
- Bamileke - majority inhabitants of Cameroon
- Banat Swabians - Germans of Romania and Vojvodina, Serbia
- Banawa
- Banda - one of the peoples of the Central African Republic
- Bandjabi - Inhabitants of Gabon
- Banjar - an ethnic minority in Indonesia
- Bantu - ethnic group widespread in central and southern Africa
- Baoule - major ethnic group in Côte d'Ivoire
- Bapou
- Bariba - national minority in Benin
- Bartangs
- Basarwa - ethnic minority in Botswana
- Bashkirs - Turkic people
- Basotho - inhabitants of Lesotho
- Basques - ethnic group mostly found in Spain and France, also in Latin America and other countries in diaspora
- Basque Argentine - Basques in Argentina
- Bassa - people of Liberia
- Bassari
- Baster (also known as Baaster) - people descended from the offspring of Dutch speaking whites and black African women
- Batak - an ethnic minority in Indonesia
- Batak - an ethnic minority in the Philippines
- Bateke - minority group in the Republic of the Congo
- Bats people
- Batswana (also Tswana) - largest ethnic group in Botswana, also found in surrounding states
- Bavarians
- Baya-Mandjia
- Beaver - Indian group in the USA
- Bedouins - nomadic group throughout North Africa and western Middle East
- Beja - nomadic group in northern Eritrea, southern Egypt, and northeastern Sudan
- Belarusians - Slavic people of eastern Europe, Belarus
- Bengalis - South Asian Indo-Aryan people, inhabiting Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal
- Bemba - an ethnic minority group in Zambia
- Berbers - a North African people, living in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt
- Betamaribe - Benin ethnic group
- Bethio
- Beti-Pahuin - group of peoples from Central Africa
- Bezhtas
- Bhotia - majority population of Bhutan, of Tibetan descent, also found in Nepal and Sikkim
- Bhotiya
- Bicolano - A Filipino ethnic group.
- Blackfeet (or Blackfoot) - group of Native American peoples of the Great Plains of the United States, comprising the Blackfoot, Blood, and Piegan tribes.
- Black British
- Black Canadians
- Black Indians - African Americans who have Native American ancestry and/or African Americans who were historically assimilated into Native American tribes
- Bo Y - Vietnamese ethnic group
- Boere-Afrikaners
- Bonairean - population of Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
- Bonan
- Bosniaks - South Slavic people living mainly in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Sandžak region of Serbia and Montenegro. Descendants of indigenous converts to Islam during Bosnia's Ottoman period. Regional term (see also Bosnian, a multi-ethnic term) recently became ethnic.
- Botlikhs
- Bouganvilleans - inhabitants of island near Papua New Guinea
- Boyar - Boyars are mainly found in South India as Hindu Telugu speaking community and non-pure kshatriyas.
- Boyko - the Ukrainian mountain people in Central Europe
- Bozo - an ethnic minority group in Mali
- Brau
- Bretons - a people indigenous to Brittany in northwest France
- British - citizens of the United Kingdom (ethnically can refer to the "White British" and those of partial white British decent)
- British Canadian - Canadians with British ancestry
- Britons - the ancient Celtic people of Great Britain
- Brong - People living in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire
- Brulé - Native American people inhabiting parts of Nebraska and South Dakota; one of the Sioux peoples
- Bru-Van Kieu - Vietnam
- Bubi minority ethnic group in Equatorial Guinea Majority Ethnic group on the island of Bioko
- Budukhs
- Bugis is one of the ethnics in Indonesia and Malaysia, mostly inhabiting South Sulawesi of Indonesia and state of Sabah of Malaysia.
- Bulang
- Bulgarians - Slavic people of the Balkans
- Bulgars - an ancient people
- Bunjevci - Slavic people of the Balkans
- Burgenland Croats
- Buryats - Mongolic people
- Bushongo - inhabitants of the Congo basin region
- Buyi - national minority of the People's Republic of China
C
- Caddo - Native American peoples formerly residing in Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, now located in central Oklahoma.
- Cahuilla
- Cambodia
- Campa - An ethnic minority in Bolivia
- Caingang
- Cajun - French-Americans in Louisiana. See also Acadian.
- Caldoche - French people of New Caledonia
- Canaanites - ancient people of the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea
- Canarians - berber based large ethnic group of Canary Islands
- Cape Coloured - mixed-race population of the Western Cape province in South Africa
- Cape Malay - population descended from people of the Malay archipelago in the Western Cape province in South Africa
- Castilians - largest ethnic group of Spain (found in the Castile region, also found in the Spanish diaspora
- Caprivian - inhabitants of the Caprivi Strip in northeastern Namibia
- Caribs - group of Native American peoples of northern South America, the Lesser Antilles, and the east coast of Central America; now mostly extinct
- Carinthian Slovenes
- Caripuna
- Catalans - inhabitants of eastern Spain (Catalonia only, or Valencia and the Balearic Islands as well - disputed), southwestern France and Andorra, also found in the Spanish diaspora
- Catawba - Native Americans from the Carolina region of the United States, now resident in western South Carolina
- Cayuga - Native American people of New York state, now resident in Wisconsin and Oklahoma; one of the Iroquois group of peoples
- Cayuse - Native American people of northeast Oregon and southeast Washington
- Cebuano - people at the Philippines,Cebu.
- Ceylon Moors - people who are of Arab stock living in Sri Lanka
- Chagga - a people of Bantu stock (Niger-Congo-B) living in Kilimanjaro Region in Tanzania
- Cham - a people of Indonesian stock living in Cambodia and central Vietnam, descended from people of the supplanted Champa kingdom
- Chambri - an ethnic minority group in Papua New Guinea
- Chamalals
- Chamorro - the indigenous people of the Mariana Islands
- Chechens - inhabitants of northern Caucasus, chiefly in Chechnya in Russia
- Chehalis
- Chemakum
- Chemehuevi - Native American people of the southwest United States
- Chepang
- Chere
- Cherokee - Native American people originally of eastern and central Tennessee, most of Kentucky, southern West Virginia, western Virginia, northern Georgia, northern Alabama, northwestern South Carolina, and western North Carolina, now mostly living in Oklahoma and North Carolina.
- Cheyenne - Native American people of the Great Plains of the United States
- Chicanos - a term used by some United States citizens of Mexican origin
- Chickahominy
- Chickasaw - Native American people formerly of northeast Mississippi, west Tennessee, and northwest Alabama, now living in Oklahoma
- Chilcotin - Native American inhabitants of British Columbia
- Chinese (also known as Han or Han Chinese) - Han people, the dominant ethnic group of the People's Republic of China
- Chinookan - members of a number of Native American peoples living in the Columbia River valley in Washington and Oregon
- Chipewyan - Native American people of northwest Canada
- Chippewa - Native American people inhabiting the Great Lakes region of Canada and also living in Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Montana
- Chitimacha - Native American people of southeastern Louisiana
- Cho Ro
- Choctaw - Native American people of Mississippi and Alabama, now mostly living in Oklahoma with many still living in Mississippi
- Chukchansi
- Chukchis
- Chulym Tatars
- Chumash - Group of Native American peoples inhabiting coastal southern California
- Chuncho
- Chut
- Chuukese - A ethnic group at Chuuk, part of the Federated States of Micronesia
- Chuvash - A Turkic people in Russia
- Ciboney - Mesoamerican inhabitants of Cuba, now extinct
- Circassians or Cherkezians see Adyghe minority in Russia, in the north Caucasus region and Turkey.
- Clayoquot - Native American people of Vancouver Island, British Columbia
- Co
- Coalhuiltec - Native American people
- Co Ho
- Co Lao
- Co Tu
- Coast Salish - Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest
- Cochiti - Native American people of the southwestern United States
- Cocopah
- Coeur d'Alene - Native American people of the Rocky Mountains
- Coharie
- Colchians or Kolchians
- Colombians - People from the South American country of Colombia.
- Coloured - term used to denote mixed-race inhabitants of South Africa. See also Cape Coloured
- Colville - Native American people inhabiting Washington; one of the Salish tribes
- Comanche - Native American people inhabiting Oklahoma, Texas, California and New Mexico
- Comorian
- Cong
- Copper - Native American people
- Coquille
- Cornish - a British people originating in Cornwall and the South West of Great Britain.
- Cossack - inhabitants of the southern steppe regions of Eastern Europe
- Costanoan - Native American people of central California, one of the Mission Indian peoples
- Coushatta - Native American now resident in Texas. See also Alabama
- Cowichan - Native American inhabitants of Vancouver Island, British Columbia
- Cowlitz - Native American people of western Washington; one of the Salish peoples
- Cree - widely dispersed Native American people inhabiting the northern United States and Canada
- Creek - Native American people originally of Alabama but now mostly residing in Oklahoma
- Créole - referring either to people of Iberian or French ancestry in the Americas, or people of mixed Native American and European ancestry in Alaska. See Louisiana Creole people
- Crimean Germans
- Crimean Goths
- Crimean Tatars - a Turkic people of Crimea
- Croats
- Croatian American - Croats in the United States
- Crow - Native American people of the northern Great Plains, now chiefly residing in southeast Montana; one of the Sioux peoples
- Cubans
- Cumans
- Cupeño
- Curaçaoan - people of Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles
- Cypriot Greeks - ethnic Greek population in Cyprus
- Czechs - Slavic people of central Europe, consisting of Bohemians and Moravians
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H
- Hadza - an ethnic minority group in Tanzania
- Haida - Native Americans inhabiting the Pacific Northwest part of the country
- Haitian Creole
- Hakka - a distinct subgroup of Han Chinese of the People's Republic of China and Taiwan
- Haliwa-Saponi
- Hamer - southern Ethiopia
- Hamshenis - An Armenian ethnic group in Turkey
- Han Chinese - dominant ethnic group of the People's Republic of China, Taiwan and Singapore and largest ethnic group in the world
- Hani
- Hausa - 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
- Haw
- Hawaiian - Polynesian indigenous people of the island chain in the Pacific Ocean
- Hazara - inhabitants of Afghanistan and Pakistan, who have mixed, Indo-Aryan, Iranian/Persian and Turkic descent.
- Herero - an ethnic minority group in Angola
- Hesquiat
- Hezhen
- Hidatsa - Native Americans
- Himba
- Hindoestanen
- Hinukhs
- Hispanics - Americans with origins in (as defined by law, in Mexico, Puerto Rico, or other Spanish-Speaking Cultures.)
- Hmar
- Hmong - an ethnic minority in Laos
- Hoa
- Ho-Chunk
- Hoh
- Hohokam
- Hoklo - 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
- Hopi - Native American, of the southwest United States
- Houma
- H'Re
- Hualapai - Natives of Mesoamerica
- Huastec
- Hui Chinese
- Huicol - Native Americans
- Hungarians - people in Hungary, central Europe
- Huns
- Hunzakuts - an ethnic minority in India
- Huli - an ethnic minority group in Papua
- Hunzibs
- Hupa
- Hurrians
- Huron - Eastern United States Native American
- Hutsuls - Ukrainian mountain people of Ukraine and Poland
- Hutu - a people mainly of Rwanda and Burundi
- Hyksos -
I
- Iatmul - an ethnic minority group in Papua
- Iban - an ethnic minority in Indonesia
- Ibanag - A Filipino minority ethnic group.
- Ibibio - West Africa (Nigeria)
- Icelanders - Majority ethnic group of Iceland
- Igbo - A West African people based primarily in the southeastern part of Nigeria. Their language is also called Igbo
- Igbo American - Citizens of the United States who have Igbo ancestry through migration and slavery
- Igorot - A Filipino minority ethnic group
- I-Kiribati - Mix of diverse islander communities, including different populations on Phoenix-islands, Line-Islands, etc.
- Illiniwek, also known as the Illini, Illinois, or Illinois Confederacy
- Ilocano - Third largest Philippine ethnic group
- Ilonggo - A Filipino ethnic group
- Imereti
- Incan - Of western South America, along the Andes and particularly Peru
- Indo-Aryan - speakers of Indo-Aryan languages originating from Northern India, eastern Pakistan, Bangladesh and southern and central Sri Lanka
- Indo-Caribbean - Caribbean people (found mostly in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica) and South American people (found mostly in Guyana, Suriname)of South Asian origins India, Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
- Indo-Europeans - hypothetical pre-historic people that spoke the hypothetical Proto-Indo-European language
- Indo-Guyanese - Guyanese people of South Asian origins India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
- Indo-Iranians - speakers of Aryan/Indo-Iranian languages originating from the Indian subcontinent, Iranian plateau and Central Asia (refers to many ethnic groups)
- Indo-Trinidadian - Trinidad and Tobago people of South Asian origins India, Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
- Ingessana - an ethnic minority group in Ethiopia
- Ingrians
- Ingushes - Ingushetia, northern Caucasus
- Innu - Native Americans of eastern Canada
- Inuit - Widespread in Alaska and northern Canada
- Irani - religious and ethnic community of the Indian subcontinent. See also Parsi.
- Iranian - Aryan speakers of Iranian languages inhabiting the Iranian plateau, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and other parts of the Caucasus and Central Asia (refers to a number of ethnic groups including Persians and Kurds)
- Irish - the native people of Ireland
- Iroquois - Native Americans once widespread in the eastern United States and Canada
- Ishkashmis
- Isleta - Natives from New Mexico
- Isoko
- Istriot
- Istro-Romanians - Istria
- Italians - majority ethnic group of Italy, as well as Argentina in diaspora. Also found in states surrounding Italy, as well as many other countries in diaspora.
- Itelmens
- Itsekiri - A Nigerian minority ethnic group, located in Delta State in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, West Africa
- Izhorians
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- K'iche' (Quiché) - a Mayan group in Guatemala
- Kabardin - A Caucasian people living in Russia
- Kabyle - a Berber people in North Africa
- Kadiweu - an ethnic minority in Paraguay
- Kaibartta - a people in South Asia
- Kakheti
- Kalasha of Chitral - an ethnic group in Pakistan
- Kalenjin
- Kallawaya - an ethnic minority in Peru
- Kaliai - an ethnic minority group in Papua
- Kalispel
- Kaluli - an ethnic minority group in Papua
- Kamas
- Kamayura - An ethnic minority in Brazil
- Kannadiga - people from karnataka, India
- Kanembu
- Kapauku -- a Papuan ethnic group speaking Ekari
- Kapampangan - A Filipino ethnic group
- Karachay - A Turkic people in Russia (primarily Karachay-Cherkessia)
- Karaims
- Karaja - An ethnic minority in Brazil
- Karakalpaks - A Turkic people in Central Asia
- Karamanlides - Turkish-speaking people native to the Karaman and Cappadocia regions of Anatolia Turkey also in Greece
- Karamojong - a people primarily of northeastern Uganda
- Karatas
- Karelians - Finnic people in Finland and Karelia, northeastern Europe
- Karen - Southeast Asia
- Karok
- Kashubians - a Slavic people of northern Europe
- Katang
- Kato
- Katuquina
- Kavango
- Kaw
- Kayapo - An ethnic minority in Brazil
- Kazakhs - a Turkic people of Central Asia, primarily Kazakhstan
- Kenyah - an ethnic minority in Indonesia
- Kenyan American
- Kereks
- Keresan
- Kets
- Khakas - A Turkic people of Russia, primarily Khakassia
- Khang
- Khants - An ethnic minority in Russia
- Khazars - Turkic people , whose leaders converted to Judaism in order to maintain neutralality in religious conflict. The Khazar empire fell to Kievan Rus in the 11th century.
- Khevi
- Khevsureti
- Khinalugs
- Khmer - Found primarily in southeast Asia, especially Cambodia
- Khmu - an ethnic minority in Laos
- Kho Mu
- Khoikhoi - Southern Africa
- Khojas - people of Indian descent
- Khomani or Nu
- Khufis
- Khvarchis
- Kickapoo - Native Americans
- Kĩkũyũ native to the African country of Kenya
- Kinh or Jing or Vietnamese
- Kiowa - Native Americans of the Great Plains of the United States
- Klallam
- Klamath - Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest
- Klikitat
- Kolchan
- Kombai - ethnic minority in Papua
- Kogi - an ethnic minority in Colombia
- Komi
- Koniag - An ethnic minority in the northern USA
- Kongo - a major ethnic group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the largest in the Republic of the Congo
- Kootenai
- Koptian - an ethno-religious group, most live in Egypt
- Korean - from the Korean peninsula in Asia and southern Manchuria
- Korowai - An ethnic minority in Papua
- Koryaks - An ethnic minority in Russia
- Kosraean - Ethnic group at Kosrae, part of the Federated States of Micronesia
- Koskimo
- Koyukon - Natives of Alaska
- Kpelle - Group from Guinea and Liberia
- Kraho - Natives of northwestern Brazil
- Krashovans
- Kri - Group from Sierra Leone, western Africa
- Kryz
- Kuban Cossacks
- Kubu - an ethnic minority in Indonesia
- Kuikuru - An ethnic minority in Brazil
- Kuna - an ethnic minority in Panama
- Kumeyaay
- Kumyks - Turkic people of northern Caucasus
- Kurds - live mostly in Iran, Turkey, Syria and Iraq
- Kuruba Gowda - Indigenous people of India
- Kutenai - 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 people of Central Asia, primarily Kyrgyzstan
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- Mentawai - Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra, Indonesia
- Meskhetians
- Métis
- Mexican American - the fifth largest ethnic group in the United States.
- Me-Wuk
- Miao - better known as the Hmong (see H)
- Mbuti - an ethnic minority group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Miccosukee - Eastern United States Native American
- Mi'kmaq - Eastern United States and Atlantic Canada Native American
- Mina - Meenas, Meena or Mina is a community mainly found in Rajasthan, India.
- Mekeo - an ethnic minority group in Papua
- Minahasa/Manadonese - Northern Part of Sulawesi (formerly known as North Celebes) Indonesia
- Minangkabau - West Sumatra, Indonesia
- Mingo
- Mingrelians - sub-group of Georgians
- Miskito - native people of coastal Nicaragua
- Mission
- Mitsogo - an ethnic minority group in Gabon
- Miwok
- Mixtec - Central American natives. Live in Mexico
- Mizrahim - Jewish communities of the Middle East and North Africa, (not to be confused with Sephardim), whose presence predates Arab– conquest.
- Mizo - an ethnic minority in Bangladesh
- Mlabri - an ethnic minority in Laos
- Mnong
- Modoc
- Mohave - Native Americans of the southwest United States
- Mohawk - Eastern United States Native American
- Mohegan
- Molise Croats
- Mon - southeast Asia, particularly Burma, Thailand
- Monacan - Native American ethnic group from the Eastern United States, not to be confused with a person from Monaco
- Mongo
- Mongols - Majority in Mongolia, Kalmykia, Russia and Inner Mongolia, China
- Mono - Native Americans from Eastern California and Nevada
- Montagnais - Native Americans
- Montaukett
- Montenegrins - largest ethnic group of Montenegro, a Serb subgroup
- Motu - an ethnic minority in Papua New Guinea
- Moor - people living mainly in Western Sahara, Morocco and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, from which the latter country derives its name
- Moravians - people living in the Moravia region of Czech Republic
- Moriori - indigenous ethnic-group of the Chatham Islands, New Zealand
- Morisco - Spanish Muslims who converted to Christianity
- Morlachs
- Moro people - the largest and most dominant non-Christian minority in the Philippines.
- Mossi - an ethnic minority group in Niger
- Motu - an ethnic minority group in Papua
- Muckleshoot
- Mudéjar - Muslims of Al-Andalus, who remained in Christian territory after the Reconquista
- Muhajir (Pakistan) - Urdu speaking population of Pakistan, who migrated from India to Pakistan at the time of partition of India in 1947
- Mulam
- Mulatto - Latin Americans with mixed European and African ancestry
- Mundas
- Mundurucu - An ethnic minority in Brazil
- Muong
- Mursi
- Museu
- Myene
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- Pa Then
- Paiute - Native Americans
- Pākehā - New Zealanders of European ancestry
- Pakoh
- Palcene
- Paliyan
- Pamunkey
- Pangasinense - A Filipino ethnic group
- Panoan
- Pa-O - Myanmar/Burma
- Pashu - Myanmar/Burma
- Pashtun (Pathan) - large group inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistan (with smaller communities in Iran and the United Arab Emirates)
- Parsi - ethno-religious group of the Indian subcontinent (etymologically related to, but not to be confused with Persian language word for a person from Pars). Descended from Zoroastrian Persians who migrated to the northern Indian subcontinent
- Passamaquoddy
- Pataxo
- Pa-Thi - Myanmar/Burma
- Paugusset
- Pawnee - Eastern United States Native American
- Pennsylvania Dutch - members of Plain sects who conduct religious services in Pennsylvania German, a dialect very similar to the German spoken in the lower Rhine area, from which they came.
- Penan - ethnic minority in Malaysia
- Pennsylvania German - people of many religious affiliations whose families were formerly Pennsylvania Dutch. Called Pennsylvania Dutch by some.
- Penobscot - Eastern United States Native American
- Peoria
- Perce - Native Americans
- Persians - largest ethnic group of Iran
- Petchenegs
- Phoenicians - historical ethnic group of the Levant
- Phong
- Phu La
- Phu Noi
- Phu Thai
- Pied-noir - French people who live(d) in North Africa
- Piegan
- Pima - Native Americans
- Pit River Indians
- Pitcairn-Norfolk
- Pilaga - An ethnic minority in Argentina
- Polabian Slavs
- Polish - Slavic people of Central Europe
- Polynesians
- Pomaks - Slavic Muslims found in Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece
- Pomo - Western United States Native American. Most live in California
- Ponca
- Ponhpeian - ethnic group at Pohnpei, part of the Federated States of Micronesia
- Pontic Greeks - a population group in Greece and the southern coast of Black Sea
- Poospatuck
- Portuguese - extreme southwest of Europe
- Potawatomi - Eastern United States Native American
- Potiguara
- Powhatan - Eastern United States Native American
- Proto-Indo-Europeans - pre-historic speakers of the hypothetical Proto-Indo-European language
- Pu Peo
- Pueblo people - Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains-area
- Puelche - An ethnic minority in Argentina
- Puget Sound Salish - of Washington
- Purépecha - Native Americans living in western Mexico
- Punan - an ethnic minority in Indonesia
- Pumi
- Punjabis - 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.
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- Ra Glai
- Rais
- Rakhine - Rakhine State, Myanmar
- Rakuba - an ethnic minority group in Chad
- Ramapough Mountain Indians
- Rappahannock - of the mid-Atlantic region of the United States
- Rashaida - minority group in Sudan, closely related to the Bedouin
- Ro Mam
- Rohingya - Muslim minority group in North western Myanmar
- Roma - one of the two groups more commonly known as Gypsies, who are of North Indian/Indo-Aryan descent
- Romanians - a Vlach ethnic group of the Balkans
- Roshanis
- Rotuman - Native of Rotuma, Fiji
- Russians - Eastern Slavs of eastern Europe, majority group of most areas of Russia, including large parts of the Caucasus and Siberia.
- Rusyns
- Ruthenians
- Rutuls - Dagestani
- Ryukyuans - the native inhabitants of the Ryukyus, a chain of islands starting about 200 km southwest of the Japanese mainland. They are usually subgrouped as follows: Northern Ryukyuans are further subdivided into Amamians and Okinawans, and Southern Ryukyuans are further subdivided into Miyakoans, Yaeyamans, and Yonagunians
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- Sadang
- Saek
- Saho - northern Ethiopia
- Saingolo
- Salar
- Salish - of Washington and British Columbia
- Samanthan
- Samaritan
- Samegrelo
- Sami - Finnic people
- Samoans - Polynesian island chain in the Pacific Ocean, also the largest group of Polynesians
- Samogitians - Baltic people in western part of Lithuania, northeastern Europe
- Samojeeds - ethnic minority in Russia
- Samtao
- Samburu - an ethnic minority group in Kenya
- San - an ethnic minority group in Botswana
- San Chay
- San Diu
- Sanema - ethnic minority in South America
- Santal
- Santee Sioux - native Americans
- Saponi - Native American people of North Carolina - related to the Catawba
- Sara
- Saramaka - ethnic minority in Suriname
- Sarakatsani - a Greek population of transhumant shepherds in Greece and parts of the Southern Balkans
- Sauk - Native Americans
- Sauk-Suiattle
- Saxons
- Scots-Irish, or Scotch-Irish - descendants of Ulster-Scots who migrated to North America
- Scots-Irish American
- Scottish - people native to Scotland
- Sekani
- Selk'nam
- Selkups - Samoyedic people
- Seminole - Native Americans of Florida
- Sena
- Seneca - Native Americans of the New York area
- Sentinelese
- Sephardi - Jews who entered Spain with the Arabs, who after the exodus from Spain settled in North Africa, the Middle East, Turkey, the Balkans, and Amsterdam. Sephardim who remained in Spain and Portugal hiding their Jewish identity are known as Crypto Jews.
- Serbs - 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
- Shan
- Shangaan
- Shasta
- Shavante - An ethnic minority in Brazil
- Shawnee
- She
- Sherpa - group in Nepal and the Himalaya
- Shinnecock
- Shipibo - An ethnic minority in Peru
- Shoalwater Bay Tribe
- Shona - ethnic minority in Zimbabwe and Mozambique
- Shors
- Shoshone - Native Americans
- Shughnis
- Shui
- Si La
- Sidamo - southern Ethiopia
- Siddi
- Siksika
- Silesians - inhabitants of Silesia
- Siletz
- Sindhis - Found mainly in Sindh, Pakistan. Most Sindhi Hindus also moved to Gujarat and Rajasthan in India after partition.
- Singmun
- Sinhalese or Sinhalas - inhabitants of Sri Lanka
- Sinti - one of the two main groups of Gypsies, who are of North Indian/Indo-Aryan descent
- Sioux - Northern Central United States
- Siuslaw
- Skagit - Native Americans
- S'Klallam
- Skokomish
- Sḵwxwú7mesh
- Slavs
- Slovaks - Slavic people of central Europe
- Slovak American
- Slovaks in Bulgaria
- Slovaks in Vojvodina
- Slovenes - Slavic people of central and southeastern Europe
- Slovene Hungarians
- Sokci
- Somali - in Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Yemen, Kenya, Middle East
- Somba
- Songhai - msinly in Mali (closely related to the Zarma and Dendi)
- Soninke - a group in Senegal, Mali, and Mauritainia (a Mande people)
- Sorbs - concentrated Slavic minority in Germany
- Souei
- Southern Tutchone
- Spanish - southwestern Europe
- Spokane
- Squaxin Island Tribe
- Sri Lankan Moors - People of mixed Arab descent in Sri Lanka
- Stillaguamish
- Sundanese - western part of Java, Indonesia
- Sudanese Australian - Australian people of Sudanese decent.
- Suquamish
- Suri - ethnic minority in Ethiopia
- Surui - An ethnic minority in Brazil
- Susu - group in coastal Guinea (a Mande people)
- Suyá - tribe of Brazil
- Svans - sub-group of Georgians
- Aramean-Syriacs
- Swahili people - ethnic minority in Kenia and Tanzania
- Swazi - Largest ethnic group of Swaziland, also significant population in South Africa (a Nguni people)
- Swedes - a Germanic people of Scandinavia
- Swinomish
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- U'wa - Indigenous peoples in the northeast of Colombia
- Ubykh - minority Northwest Caucasian people of Manyas, Turkey
- Udeghes
- Udis
- Ukrainian - 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
- Ulta - An ethnic minority in Russia
- Umatilla
- Umpqua
- Upper Skagit
- Urapmin - a small tribe in Papua New Guinea
- Ute - Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area
- Uyghur - Turkic Muslim people in the People's Republic of China
- Uzbek - Turkic people of central Asia
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References
- Levinson, David (1998), Ethnic Groups Worldwide: A Ready Reference Handbook, Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 9781573560191
See also
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nation, nationality, national minority, tribe, clan, indigenous people, ethno-linguistic group, ethno-religious group, multilingual ethnic group, population, race, meta-ethnicity, panethnicity
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| identity and ethnogenesis |
demonym, endonym, tribal name, cultural identity, national identity, origin myth, mores, national myth, folk religion, national language, nation state, tribalism, lineage-bonded society, pantribal sodalities, nation-building, cultural assimilation, imagined communities
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