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List of ethnic groups
This is a list of ethnic groups.
- 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
- Afar[?] - Ethiopia
- African-American - Descendants of African slaves brought to North America
- Afrikaan[?] - Dutch-descended settlers of southern Africa
- Agni
- Ahtna[?] - Native Alaskans, along the Copper River[?]
- Aimaks[?] - Minority group in Afghanistan
- Aimaq[?] - Minority group in Afghanistan
- Ainu - Natives of Japan and Sakhalin
- Aja
- Ak Chin[?]
- Akan[?]
- Akha[?]
- Alabama-Coushatta[?]
- Alak[?]
- Albanian - Balkan Penninsula
- Aleut - natives of Alaska, and the Yukon, Nunavut and Northwest Territories
- Algonquin - Native Americans of the eastern United States and Canada
- Altay - of Siberian Russia
- Americo-Liberians[?] - descendants of African slaves repatriated to Liberia
- Amhara[?] - Ethiopia
- Amish - North American religious minority, of German descent
- Amungme
- Andorran - small nation between France and Spain
- Anglo-Celtic Australian[?]
- Anglo-Indian[?]
- Anglo-Saxon
- Apache - western plains Native American group of the United States
- Apinaje[?]
- Arab - widespread throughout the Middle East and North Africa
- Araucanian[?]
- Arapaho
- Arawak - natives of the Caribbean
- Arikara[?] - natives of the Caribbean
- Armenian - of the Caucasus region, formerly of the USSR
- Aromanian[?]
- Aruban - Dutch-colonized island in the Caribbean
- Asheninka[?]
- Assiniboine[?]
- Assyrian[?] - Middle Eastern
- Atikamekw
- Atsina[?]
- Atsugewi[?]
- Australian aborigine - natives of Australia
- Awa
- Aymara
- Azerbaijani - group of the Caucasus, formerly of the USSR
- Azeri
- Aztec - Central American group, descendants widespread in Mexico
- Ba Na[?]
- Baguirmi[?]
- Bai[?]
- Baka
- Bakongo[?]
- Baloch
- Bambara
- Bamileke[?]
- Banawa
- Banda
- Bandjabi[?]
- Bantu - ethnic group widespread in central Africa
- Baoule[?]
- Bapou[?]
- Bariba[?]
- Basarwa[?]
- Bashkhir
- Bashkort[?]
- Basotho[?]
- Basque - group unrelated to other known ethnicities, located in the Pyrenees between Spain and France
- Bassa[?]
- Bassari[?]
- Bateke[?]
- Batswana - largest ethnic group in Botswana
- Bavarian - region in Germany, northern Europe
- Baya-Mandjia[?]
- Bedouin - nomadic group throughout North Africa and western Middle East
- Belarusian - Eastern European, formerly of the USSR
- Bengal - South Asian, Bangladesh
- Berber
- Betammaribe[?]
- Bethio
- Bhotia[?]
- Biafran - of Nigeria
- Bit
- Blackfeet
- Bo Y[?]
- Bohemian - a region in southern Germany
- Bonan[?]
- Bouganvillean[?] - island near Papua New Guinea
- Brau[?]
- Breton - Celtic group in northwest France
- Bru-Van Kieu[?] - Vietnam
- Brule[?]
- Bulang[?]
- Bulu-Beti[?]
- Buryat
- Bushongo[?]
- Buyi[?]
- Caddo[?]
- Cahuila[?]
- Caingang[?]
- Cajun - French-Americans in Louisiana
- Caprivian[?]
- Carib - of the Caribbean
- Caripuna[?]
- Carrier
- Catalonian - historical nation on eastern Spain and southeastern France
- Catawba[?] - Native Americans from the Carolina-region of the United States
- Cayuga - Eastern North American Native Americans
- Cayuse[?]
- Chehalis[?]
- Chemakum[?]
- Chemehuevi - Southwest US Native Americans
- Cham
- Chechnyan - large minority in Russia, northern Caucasus
- Chepang
- Chere[?]
- Cherokee - Eastern United States Native American
- Cheyenne[?] - western plains Native Americans of the United States
- Chilcotin[?]
- Chickahominee[?]
- Chikasaw[?]
- Chinookan[?]
- Chipewyan[?]
- Chippewa Cree
- Chitimacha[?]
- Choctaw - Eastern United States Native American
- Cho Ro[?]
- Chukchansi[?]
- Chumash
- Chut[?]
- Ciboney[?] - Mesoamerican
- Clayoquot[?]
- Co
- Co Ho[?]
- Co Lao[?]
- Cochiti[?]
- Cocopah
- Coeur d'Alene[?] - Rocky Mountains-area Native American group
- Commanche[?]
- Cong
- Cornish - Celtic group in the southwest of England
- Cham
- Chicano
- Cho Ro[?]
- Co Tu[?]
- Coast Salish[?] - Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest
- Coharie
- Colville[?]
- Coquille[?]
- Corsican - island off the coast of France
- Costanoan[?]
- Coushatta[?]
- Cowichan[?]
- Cowlitz[?]
- Cree
- Creek
- Croatian - Balkan penninsula, formerly of Yugoslavia
- Crow[?]
- Cupeno[?]
- Czech - Central European, formerly of Czechoslovakia
- Dagestani[?] - Central Russia
- Dai
- Dakota[?]
- Damara
- 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 De[?]
- Enxet
- Eritrean - formerly of Ethiopia, on the Red Sea
- Eshira[?]
- Esselen[?]
- Estonian - Eastern European, formerly of the USSR
- Evenki
- 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 - Minority in the Netherlands
- Fon[?]
- French - western European
- French Creole[?] - of Haiti
- Frisian - Germanic group on a few islands in the North Sea
- Fula
- Fulani
- Fulbe
- Fulfulde
- Fulni-o[?]
- Gagauz[?]
- Gaoshan
- Garifuna[?]
- Ge - northern South America, Caribbean coast
- Gelao[?]
- Georgian - Caucasus region, formerly of the USSR
- German - northern European
- Gia Rai[?]
- Giay[?]
- Gie Trieng[?]
- Gongduk[?]
- Goshute[?]
- Goulaye[?]
- Greek - Southern tip of the Balkan Penninsula
- Greenlander - island in the North Atlantic
- Gros Ventre[?]
- Guajajara[?]
- Guarani
- Gurage[?] - Ethiopia
- Gurung[?]
- 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[?] - Balkan Penninsula, formerly of Yugoslavia
- 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 - Eastern European
- Hualapai[?] - Natives of Mesoamerica
- Hupa[?]
- Huastec
- Huron - Eastern United States Native American
- Hutu - Rwanda
- Icelandic - North Atlantic island
- Illinois[?]
- Incan - Of western South America, along the Andes and particularly Peru
- 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[?]
- Italian - penninsula in the south of Europe
- 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[?]
- Jri[?]
- Kalispel[?]
- Karaja[?]
- Karen[?] - southeast Asia
- Karok[?]
- Kashub - northern Europe
- Katang[?]
- Kato[?]
- Katu[?]
- Katuquina[?]
- Kavangos[?]
- Kaw
- Kaxinawa[?]
- Kavango
- Kazakh - Central Asia, Kazakhstan, formerly of the USSR
- Keresan[?]
- Khang[?]
- Khmer - southeast Asia, Cambodia
- Khmu[?]
- Kho Mu[?]
- Khoikhoi[?] - Southern Africa
- Kickapoo
- Kinh[?]
- Kiowa[?] - Native Americans of the Great Plains of the United States
- Kirghiz - Caucasus-region, Kirghizistan formerly of the USSR
- Klallam[?]
- Klamath - Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest
- Klikitat[?]
- Kolchan[?]
- Kootenai[?]
- Korean - Asian penninsula, 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
- Kurd - large minority in Iraq, Iran, Turkey
- Kutenai[?]
- Kwakiutl - of the Washington/British Columbia area
- La Chi[?]
- La Ha[?]
- La Hu[?]
- Laguna
- Lahu[?]
- 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 - Eastern European, formerly of the USSR
- Lavae[?]
- Laven[?]
- Lavi[?]
- Lebanese - Middle Eastern group, between Turkey and Israel
- Lebou
- Lenca[?]
- Lhoba
- Li Chinese
- Limbus[?]
- Lisu[?]
- Lithuanian - Eastern European, formerly of the USSR
- Lo Lo[?]
- Lotuko[?]
- Low Saxon - Northern Germany
- Lu[?]
- Lue[?]
- Luiseno[?]
- Lumbee[?]
- Lummi[?]
- M'Baka[?]
- Ma
- Macedonian Slavs[?] - of the Balkan Penninsula
- Macuxi[?]
- Madurese[?]
- Magar[?]
- Maidu[?]
- Makah[?]
- Makua[?]
- Makong[?]
- Malabo
- Malay[?] - dominant ethnic group in Malaysia
- Maliseet[?]
- Maltese - syncretist group in the Mediterranean
- Mam[?]
- Manchu - Manchuria, now part of China, north of Korea
- Mandan[?]
- Mang[?]
- Manx[?] - Celts of the Isle of Man
- Maonan[?]
- Maricopa[?]
- Maori - natives of New Zealand
- Mashantucket Pequots - Native Americans of New England
- Mattaponi[?]
- Maubere[?]
- Mayan - natives of Central America, widespread
- Me-Wuk[?]
- Meherrin[?]
- Menba[?]
- Menominee[?] - Eastern United States Native American
- Métis
- Miami[?]
- Miao
- Miccosukee[?] - Eastern United States Native American
- Micmac[?] - Eastern United States 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 - Eastern European, formerly of the USSR
- 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[?]
- Montenegran - of the Balkan Penninsula
- Moor - Descendants of Arab invaders of the Hispanic Pennisula
- Muckleshoot
- Mulam[?]
- Muong[?]
- Museu[?]
- Myene[?]
- 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[?]
- Nomlaki[?]
- Nooksack[?] - Native Americans of Washington
- Nootka[?] - Native American group in the northwestern United States
- Nu
- Nung[?]
- 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[?]
- 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[?]
- Polish - northern European
- Pomo[?]
- Ponca[?]
- Poospatuck[?]
- Portuguese - extreme southwest of Europe
- Potawatomi[?] - Eastern United States Native American
- Potiguara[?]
- Powhatan[?] - Eastern United States Native American
- Pu Peo[?]
- Pueblo - Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains-area
- Puelche[?]
- Puget Sound Salish[?] - of Washington
- Pumi[?]
- Puyallup[?]
- Quahatika[?]
- Quapaw[?]
- Quebecois - French-Canadians of Quebec
- Quechan
- Qiang[?]
- Quiche
- Quileute[?]
- Quinault[?]
- R.Berserker[?]
- 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 - Eastern European, originally of Moscow, Kiev area, now widespread through Siberia and the Urals to the Pacific Ocean
- S'Klallam[?]
- Saami - (Lapplanders), northern extreme of Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Finland)
- Sadang[?]
- Saek[?]
- Salar[?]
- Salish[?] - of Washington and British Columbia
- Samaritan
- Samtao[?]
- San
- San Chay[?]
- San Diu[?]
- Sardinian - island near Italy
- Sarsi[?]
- Sauk
- Sauk-Suiattle[?]
- Scandinavian - Norway and Sweden
- Scottish - Celtic group in the north of Britain
- Sekani[?]
- Seminole - natives of Florida
- Semitic
- Sena[?]
- Seneca - Native Americans of the New York area
- Serbian - of the Balkan Penninsula, of Serbia
- Serer
- Serer-Ndut
- Shangaan[?]
- Shankella[?] - Ethiopia
- Shasta[?]
- Shawnee[?]
- She[?]
- Sherpa - group in Nepal and the Himalayas
- Shinnecock[?]
- Shoalwater Bay Tribe[?]
- Shoshone[?]
- Shui[?]
- Si La
- Sicilian - island south of Italy
- Sidamo[?] - Ethiopia
- Siksika[?]
- Siletz[?]
- Singmun[?]
- Sinhalese - group widespread in southern India and Sri Lanka
- Sinti - one of the two main groups of Gypsies
- Sioux - Northern Central United States
- Siuslaw[?]
- Slavik[?]
- Slovak - Central European, formerly of Czechoslovakia
- Slovene - Central European, formerly of Yugoslavia
- Skokomish[?]
- Somali[?] - Ethiopia
- Somba[?]
- Sorbic - concentrated minority in Germany
- Souei[?]
- Spanish - southwestern Europe
- Spokane[?]
- Squaxin Island Tribe[?]
- Stillaguamish[?]
- Sundanese[?]
- Suquamish[?]
- Swazi[?] - southern Africa, Swaziland
- Swinomish[?]
- Ta Oi[?]
- Tache[?]
- Tachi
- Tagish[?]
- Tahitian - Pacific Ocean island, Polynesian
- Taino - natives of the Caribbean
- Tajik - central Asia, formerly of the USSR
- Taliang[?]
- Tamil - of Sri Lanka, an island south of India
- Tanaina[?]
- Tanana[?]
- Taos
- Tapuia[?]
- Tarascan
- Tatar
- Tay[?]
- Tehuelche[?]
- Tejano - Latino immigrants to Texas
- Teotihuacan
- Terena[?]
- Teton[?] - Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area
- Tewa[?]
- Thai - southeast Asia
- Tharu[?]
- Thin[?]
- Tho[?]
- Tibetan - currently under Chinese rule, central Asia
- Ticuna[?]
- Tigre - Ethiopia
- Tigua[?]
- Tlakluit[?]
- Tlingit - Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest
- Tohono O'odham
- Tolowa[?]
- Toltec - Central America
- Tonkawa[?]
- Tongva
- Topachula[?]
- Totonac[?]
- Tsetsaut[?]
- Tsimishian[?] - Pacific Northwest Native Americans
- Tsonga[?]
- Tswana
- Tualalip[?]
- Tuareg
- Tujia]
- Tukanoan[?]
- Tukolor[?]
- Tulutni[?]
- Tum
- Tumbuka[?]
- Tungus[?]
- Tunica-Biloxi[?]
- Tupian[?]
- Turkish - Middle Eastern group, Turkey
- Turkmen - central Asia, Turkmenistan
- Tutchone[?]
- Tutsi - of Rwanda and southern Africa
- Tuvan - Central Asian group in Russia
- Tuvaluan[?] - Polynesian island chain in the Pacific Ocean
- Twa
- Tzigane
- Uighur - large Muslim minority in China
- Ukrainian - widespread ethnic group north of the Black Sea, formerly of the USSR
- Umatilla[?]
- Umpqua[?]
- Upper Skagit[?]
- Ute - Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area
- Uzbek - central Asia, Uzbekistan
- Wa
- Waccamaw[?]
- Wailaki[?]
- Welsh - Celtic nation in western England
- Walla Walla[?]
- Wampanoag[?]
- Wasco[?]
- Washoe[?]
- White Mountain Apache[?]
- Wichita[?]
- Wintun[?]
- Wiyot[?]
- Wolof - Senegal and elsewhere in western Africa
- Wyandot
- Xacriaba[?]
- Xavante[?]
- Xerente[?]
- Xhosa - of Southern Africa
- Xibe
- Xinh Mun[?]
- Xo Dang[?]
- Xtieng[?]
- Xucuru
- Xueda[?]
- Yae[?]
- Yakama[?]
- Yakima[?]
- Yakut[?] - in eastern Russia
- Yang
- Yanomami - the Amazon river basin, Brazil
- Yao[?]
- Yavapai
- Yawanawa[?]
- Yi[?]
- Yocha-Dehe[?]
- Yokut[?]
- Yoruba - western Africa
- Yugur[?]
- Yuki[?] - Native Americans of northwestern California
- Yupik
- Yuma
- Yumbri[?]
- Yurok[?]
- Zapotec - Central America
- Zhuang
- Zulu - of southern Africa
- Zuni[?] - of the southwestern United States
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