List of ethnic groups

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This is a list of names of ethnic groupss. A group can have several names (e.g., names in English language and in native language, obsolete names, versions of spelling, etc.)

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A

Abenaki - Native Americans once widespread in eastern North America
Abkhaz - Minority in Georgia, Turkey and Russia, Abkhazia
Acadian - French-Canadians of the Canadian Maritimes
Accohannock - Native Americans of Maryland
Achang - Yunnan, China
Achomawai - Native Americans of California
Acoma - Native Americans of the southwest United States and Mexico
Adja - Minority in Benin
Adyghe - Minority in Russia, in the north Caucasus region.
Afar - Minority in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. Also known as Danakil
African-American - Descendants of African slaves brought to North America
Afrikaners - Dutch-descended settlers of southern Africa
Agni - minority group in Cote d'Ivoire
Aguls - Dagestani minority group
Ahtna - Native Alaskans, along the Copper River
Aimaks - Minority group in Afghanistan
Aimaq - Minority group in Afghanistan
Ainu - Natives of Hokkaido, much of Sakhalin, the Kuriles, and at one time northern Honshu, the Kamchatska Penninsula, and the Amur River basin
Aja - Minority group in Benin
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, Cote d'Ivoire and Togo
Akha
Alabama - Native American people from whom the state takes its name; now sharing a reservation in Texas with the Coushatta
Alak
Albanians - Natives of the south-west Balkans, principally residing in Albania, Macedonia and Serbia and Montenegro.
Aleut - Natives of Alaska, and the Yukon, Nunavut and Northwest Territories
Algonquian - Native Americans of the eastern United States and Canada
Altaic peoples - Non-homogeneous peoples of the Altai Mountains region
Americo-Liberians - Descendants of African slaves repatriated to Liberia
Amhara - Indigenous people of central Ethiopia
Amish - North American religious minority, of German descent
Amungme
Andorrans - Inhabitants of a small nation between France and Spain
Anglo-Celtic Australian - Inhabitants of Australia with British descent
Anglo-Indian - Offspring of mixed Indian and British parents resident in India
Anglo-Saxon - Often used to mean a person of English ancestry
Apaches - western plains Native American group of the United States
Apinaje
Arab - originally from Arabia, now widespread throughout the Middle East and North Africa
Aramean - Semitic people of the Middle East, chiefly resident in Syria
Arapaho - Native American people, formerly inhabiting Colorado and Wyoming, now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming
Araucanian - Non-homogenous peoples of South America, inhabiting Chile and western Argentina
Arawak - natives of the Caribbean
Arikara - natives of the Caribbean
Armenians - natives of the Caucasus region, Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, with a large worldwide diaspora
Aromanians (or Macedo-Romanians)
Arubans - Dutch-colonized island in the Caribbean
Asheninka
Assiniboine - Native American people living in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Montana; one of the Sioux peoples
Assyrians - Middle Eastern, principally in Syria
Atikamekw
Atsina - Native American people inhabiting Montana and formerly Saskatchewan
Atsugewi
Australian aborigine - generic name for native inhabitants of Australia
Avars - inhabitants of the Russian republic of Dagestan
AwÃÂÃÂ¡ - an endangered Amazonian tribe of hunter-gatherers
Aymaras - South American people of Bolivia and Peru
Azeris - Turkic people of the Caucasus, Azerbaijan
Aztecs - Central American people, descendants widespread in Mexico

B

Ba Na

Baguirmi - inhabitants of Chad
Bai - national minority of China, inhabiting Yunnan province
Bajau - Sea Gypsies of Borneo; touch land only to bury their dead.
Baka - one of the Pygmy peoples of central Africa. See also Twa, Aka, Mbuti, Binga and Gelli EfÃÂÃÂ©.
Bate Boiko
Bakongo - 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) - traditionally nomadic Muslim people of Baluchistan
Bambara - group living chiefly in Mali and Guinea
Bamileke - majority inhabitants of Cameroon
Banawa
Banda - one of the peoples of the Central African Republic
Bandjabi
Bantu - ethnic group widespread in central and southern Africa
Baoule - major ethnic group in Cote d'Ivoire
Bapou
Bariba - national minority in Benin
Basarwa - ethnic minority in Botswana
Bashkhirs (or Bashkir) - people of east central Russia, inhabiting principally Bashkortostan
Basotho - inhabitants of Lesotho
Basques - group unrelated to other known ethnicities, located in the Pyrenees between Spain and France
Bassa - people of Liberia
Bassari
Bateke - minority group in the Republic of the Congo
Batswana - largest ethnic group in Botswana
Bavarians - inhabitant of the German state of Bavaria, with a distinctive dialect of High German
Baya-Mandjia
Bedouins - nomadic group throughout North Africa and western Middle East
Belarusians - Slavic people of eastern Europe, Belarus
Bengalis - South Asian people, chiefly inhabiting Bangladesh
Berbers - a North African people, living in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt
Betammaribe
Bethio
Bhotia - majority population of Bhutan, of Tibetan descent
Biafrans - inhabitant of eastern Nigerian region (see also Ibo)
Bit
Blackfeet (or Blackfoot) - group of Native American peoples of the Great Plains, comprising the Blackfoot, Blood, and Piegan tribes.
Bo Y
Bonan
Bosniak - Muslim Slavic people of southeastern Europe, inhabiting chiefly Bosnia and Serbia
Bouganvilleans - inhabitants of island near Papua New Guinea
Brau
Bretons - Celtic group in northwest France
Bru-Van Kieu - Vietnam
BrulÃÂÃÂ© - Native American people inhabiting parts of Nebraska and South Dakota; one of the Sioux peoples
Bulang
Bulgars - Slavic people of the Balkans
Bulu-Beti
Bunjevci - Slavic people of the Balkans
Buryats - people of the eastern Russian republic of Buryatia
Bushongo - inhabitants of the Congo region
Buyi - national minority of China

C

Caddo - Native American peoples formerly residing in Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, now located in central Oklahoma.
Cahuila
Caingang
Cajuns - French-Americans in Louisiana. See also Acadian.
Cape Coloured - mixed-race population of the Western Cape Province of South Africa
Cape Malay - Malay-descended population of the Western Cape Province of South Africa
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
Caripuna
Carrier - Native American people of Canada, one of the Athabascan group of peoples
Catalans - inhabitants of north-eastern Spain and southwestern France
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
Cham - a people of Indonesian stock living in Cambodia and central Vietnam
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 Tennessee and North Carolina, now mostly living in Oklahoma
Cheyenne - Native American people of the Great Plains of the United States
Chicano - a United States citizen of Mexican origin
Chickahominee
Chickasaw - Native American people formerly of northeast Mississippi and northwest Alabama, now living in Oklahoma
Chilcotin - Native American inhabitants of British Columbia
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
Cho Ro
Choctaw - Native American people formerly of Mississippi and Alabama, now mostly living in Oklahoma
Chukchansi
Chumash - Group of Native American peoples inhabiting coastal southern California
Chut
Ciboney - Mesoamerican inhabitants of Cuba, now extinct
Clayoquot - Native American people of Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Co
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
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
Comanches - Native American people inhabiting Oklahoma, Texas, California and New Mexico
Cong
Coquille
Cornish - Celtic group in the southwest of England
Corsicans - inhabitants of island off the south coast of France
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
CrÃÂÃÂ©ole - referring either to people of Iberian or French ancestry in the Americas, or people of mixed Native American and European ancestry in Alaska
Croats - Slavic people of southeastern Europe
Crow - Native American people of the northern Great Plains, now chiefly residing in southeast Montana; one of the Sioux peoples
Cupeno
Czechs - Slavic people of central Europe

D

Dagestani peoples - indigenous groups of northern Caucasus
Dai (Thai, Thai Lue)
Dakota
Damara
Dargins - Dagestani
Dao
Daur
De'ang
Delaware - Eastern United States Native American
Dendi
Danish - Scandinavian country in northern Europe
Diegueno
Dinka
Diola
Dominican - from the Dominican Republic, Hispaniola
Dong
Dongxiang
Drung
Du
Dutch - Northern European, one of the Low Countries

E

E De

English - Germanic group dwelling in the lowlands of Great Britain
Enxet
Eritrean - formerly of Ethiopia, on the Red Sea
Eshira
Esselen
Estonian - Finno-Ugric people of northeastern Europe
Evenks

F

Fang - Western Africa
Farsi - Small minority of Zoroastrians in Iran and Afghanistan
Fijian - Polynesian group
Finnish - Ural-Altaic group in Scandinavia, west of Russia
Flemish - Belgium and the Netherlands
Fon
French - western European
French Creole - of Haiti
French Canadian - of French Canadian culture, historically self-identified as Canadiens, then later as Canadiens-franÃÂÃÂ§ais and today as QuÃÂÃÂ©bÃÂÃÂ©cois. See also Quebecois, Metis and Acadians.
Frisian - Germanic group on a few islands in the North Sea
Fula
Fulani
Fulbe
Fulfulde
Fulni-o

G

Gagauz
Galician - people of Celtic origin in northwestern Spain
Gaoshan
Garifuna
Ge - northern South America, Caribbean coast
Gelao
Georgian - Caucasus region, of Georgia
ethnic German - with to German culture and German language
Gia Rai
Giay
Gie Trieng
Gongduk
Gorani - Slavic people in Serbia
Goshute
Goulaye
Greek - southeastern Europe
Greenlander - island in the North Atlantic
Griqua - South Africa
Gros Ventre
Guajajara
Guarani
Gurage - Ethiopia
Gurung

H

H'Re

Ha-Nhi

Haida - Pacific Northwest Native Americans
Hakka
Haliwa-Sapponi
Han Chinese - dominant ethnic group of China
Hani
Havasupai
Haw
Hawaiian - native Polynesians of the island chain
Hazara
Hercegovinian - arguably regional group of Croats and Serbs in Herzegovina
Herero
Hesquiat
Hezhen
Hidatsa
Himba
Hmong - Southeast Asia
Ho-Chunk
Hoa
Houma
Hoh
Hohokam
Holikachuk
Hopi - Native American, of the southwest United States
Hui Chinese
Hungarian - Finno-Ugric people of central Europe
Hualapai - Natives of Mesoamerica
Hupa
Huastec
Huron - Eastern United States Native American
Hutu - Rwanda

I

Icelandic - North Atlantic island
Illinois
Incan - Of western South America, along the Andes and particularly Peru
Ingushes - northern Caucacus
Ingalik - Natives of Alaska
Innu - Native Americans of eastern Canada
Inuit - Widespread in Alaska and northern Canada
Iowa
Irish - Island west of Britain, Celtic
Iroquois - Native Americans once widespread in the eastern United States and Canada
Isleta - Natives from New Mexico
Isoko
Istro-Romanian - Istria
Italian - from the Apennine peninsula in the south of Europe

J

Jamaican - mixture of African slaves, Central American natives and English settlers, Caribbean
Japanese - islands off the east coast of Asia
Javanese - island in Indonesia
Jemez
Jewish - widespread religion and nation, also concentrated in Israel
Jing
Jingpo
Jino
Jivaroan
Jola
Jopadhola
Jri

K

Kalispel

Karaja

Karen - southeast Asia
Karok
Kashub - northern Europe
Katang
Kato
Katu
Katuquina
Kavango
Kaw
Kaxinawa
Kazakh - Turkic/Mongol people of central Asia
Keresan
Khang
Khazars
Khmer - southeast Asia, Cambodia
Khmu
Kho Mu
Khomani or N/u
Khoikhoi - Southern Africa
Kickapoo
Kinh
Kiowa - Native Americans of the Great Plains of the United States
Kirghiz - Turkic people of central Asia
Klallam
Klamath - Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest
Klikitat
Kolchan
Kootenai
Korean - from a peninsula in Asia, south of Manchuria (China) and across the sea from Japan
Koskimo
Koyukon - Natives of Alaska
Kpelle - Group from Guinea, western Africa
Kraho - Natives of northwestern Brazil
Kri - Group from Sierra Leone, western Africa
Kui
Kumeyaay-Digueno
Kumyks - Turkic people of northern Caucacus
Kurd - large minority in Turkey, Iraq, Iran
Kutenai
Kwakiutl - of the Washington/British Columbia area

L

La Chi

La Ha

La Hu

Laguna
Lahu
Laks - Caucacus
Lakota - Native Americans of the Great Plains of the United States and Canada
Lamet
Lao Sung
Lao Theung
Laotian - southeast Asia
Latino - Mixed native South or Central American, Spanish or Portuguese and African
Latvian - Baltic people of northeastern Europe
Lavae
Laven
Lavi
Lebou
Lenca
Lezgis - Dagestani
Lhoba
Li Chinese
Limbus
Lippovans - Danube Delta, Romania
Lisu
Lithuanian - Baltic people of northeastern Europe
Lo Lo
Lotuko
Low Saxon - Northern Germany
Lu
Lue
Luiseno
Lumbee
Lummi

M

M'Baka

Ma
Macedonian Slavs - Slavic people of southeastern Europe
Macuxi
Madurese
Magar
Maidu
Makah
Makua
Makong
Malabo
Malay - dominant ethnic group in south-east Asia specifically Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and the Philippines.
Maliseet
Maltese - syncretist group in the Mediterranean
Mam - a Maya people of Guatemala
Manchu - Manchuria, now part of China, north of Korea
Mandan
Mang
Manx - Celts of the Isle of Man
Maonan
Mapuche
Maricopa
Maori - natives of New Zealand
Mashantucket Pequots - Native Americans of New England
Mattaponi
Matabele - Southern Africa
Maubere
Maya - natives of Central America, widespread
Me-Wuk
Megleno-Romanians - in Greece
Meherrin
Memon - India and Pakistan
Menba
Menominee - Eastern United States Native American
Métis
Miami
Miao
Miccosukee - Eastern United States Native American
Mi'kmaq - Eastern United States and Atlantic Canada Native American
Mina
Mingo
Mission
Miwok
Mixtec - Central American natives
Mnong
Modoc
Mohave - Native Americans of the southwest United States
Mohawk - Eastern United States Native American
Mohican - Native Americans from New England
Moldovan - Romanians people of Moldova, eastern Europe
Mon - southeast Asia, particularly Thailand
Monacan - Native American ethnic group, not to be confused with a person from Monaco
Mongol - Central Asia, between Russia and China
Mono
Montaukett
Montenegrin - Slavic people of southeastern Europe
Moor - Descendants of Arab invaders of the Hispanic Peninsula
Moriori - indigenous ethnic-group of the Chatham Islands, New Zealand
Muckleshoot
Mulam
Muong
Museu
Myene

N

Nahanni

Nama
Nansemond
Narragansett - natives of New England
Nauruan - Polynesian group of islands in the Pacific Ocean
Navajo - Native Americans of the southwest United States
Naxi
Ndau
Nepalese - south Asia, between India and China
Nespelim
Newars
Nez Perce - Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area
Ngae
Nhahuen
Nhuon
Ni-Vanuatu - of Vanuatu, an island chain in the Pacific Ocean
Niominka
Nipmuc
Nishka
Nisqually
Nogais - Tatars of Dagestan
Nomlaki
Nooksack - Native Americans of Washington
Nootka - Native American group in the northwestern United States
Nu
N/u or Khomani
Nung

O

O Du
Oglala - Native Americans of the central United States
Oi
Ojibwa
Okamba
Okande
Olmec
Omaha
Oneida
Onondangua
Oromo - Ethiopia
Oroqin
Osage
Otoe-Missouria
Ottawa
Ovambo

P

Pa Then

Paiute
Pakoh
Palestinian - much-disputed ethnic group of the Middle East
Pamunkey
Panoan
Pashtun - large group in Afghanistan
Passamaquoddy
Patagonian - southern tip of South America, Argentina
Pataxo
Paugusset
Pawnee - Eastern United States Native American
Penobscot - Eastern United States Native American
Peoria
Persian - modern-day Iran
Phong
Phu La
Phu Noi
Phu Thai
Piegan
Pima
Pit River Indians
Pitcairn-Norfolk
Polish - Slavic people of central-northern Europe
Pomaks - in Greece
Pomo
Ponca
Poospatuck
Portuguese - extreme southwest of Europe
Potawatomi - Eastern United States Native American
Potiguara
Powhatan - Eastern United States Native American
Pu Peo
Pueblo people - Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains-area
Puelche
Puget Sound Salish - of Washington
Pumi
Puyallup

Q

Quahatika

Quapaw

Quechan
Qiang
QuichÃÂÃÂ©
Quileute
Quinault

R

Ra Glai

Rais

Ramapough Mountain Indians
Rappahannock - of the mid-Atlantic region of the United States
Ro Mam
Roma - one of the two groups more commonly known as Gypsies
Romanian - Eastern European
Russian - Slavic people of eastern Europe, originally of Moscow, Kiev area, now widespread through Siberia and the Urals to the Pacific Ocean
Ruthenes (also called Rusyns)
Rutuls - Dagestani
Ryukyuans - the native inhabitants of the Ryukyus, a chain of islands starting about 200km 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