List of ethnic groups
This is a list of names of
ethnic groups.
A group can have several names (e.g., names in
English and in a native language, obsolete names, versions of spelling, etc.) An ethnic group is a human population whose members identify with each other, usually on the basis of a supposedly shared common genealogy or ancestry (Smith 1986). Henceforth, this list may include only groups whose members self-identify and/or are identified by others as members of an ethnic group.
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Abenaki -
Native Americans of
Quebec,
Vermont,
New Hampshire, and possibly
Maine and
Nova Scotia (
Algonquin people)
*
Abkhazians - Minority in
Georgia,
Turkey and
Russia, majority (since 1993 civil war) in
Abkhazia*
Indigenous Australians, also called
Aborigines, indigenous peoples of mainland
Australia.
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Acadian -
French-Canadians of the
Canadian Maritimes*
Accohannock -
Native Americans of
Maryland*
Achang -
Yunnan,
China*
Achomawi -
Native Americans of
California*
Acoma -
Native Americans of the southwest
United States and
Mexico*
Adyghe - Minority in
Russia, in the north
Caucasus region.
*
Afar - A tribal people in
Ethiopia,
Eritrea and
Djibouti. Also known as
Danakil*
African-American -
Americans of sub-Saharan
African origin
*
Afrikaners - descendants of
Dutch settlers / French
Huguenot refugees & German Protestants of southern
Africa*
Afro-Trinidadian*
Aftsarians or
Isaurians*
Agni - minority group in
Côte d'Ivoire*
Aguls -
Dagestani minority group
*
Ahtna -
Alaska Natives, 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
Kamchatka Peninsula, 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,
Côte 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 - from
Laos*
Albanians - Natives of the west
Balkans, principally residing in
Albania,
Kosovo,
Macedonia,
Italy and
Greece.
See also: Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia, Albanians in the Republic of Montenegro, Albanians in the Republic of Serbia*
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*
Altaic peoples - Non-homogeneous peoples of the
Altay Mountains region
*
American - a term used by certain English speaking
Americans, primarily
British Americans in the former
Confederate States of America(see
Southern United States and
this map). In
Latin America and
Spain, this is a label referring to all inhabitants of the
The Americas.
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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 - 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-American - In the
United States, this term may identify those of English descent or those who have become assimilated into the dominant Anglo-American culture.
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Anglo-Celtic Australian - Inhabitants of Australia with
British,
Irish or other
European descent
*
Anglo-Indian - Offspring of mixed
Indian and
British parentage resident in
India and
Great Britain*
Anglo-Saxon - Historically, the name for the united Teuton tribes inhabiting Britain from the 5th century to the Norman invasion. Most commonly used today in the United States for a person of British descent, or pertaining to the English speaking world.
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Annamites or
Vietnamese or
Kinh or
Jing - A people of Mongolian descent living in Vietnam as the dominant majority.
*
Ansar or
Ansarie*
Antiguan*
Antillean *
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*
Aramean - 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-homogeneous peoples of
South America, inhabiting
Chile and western
Argentina*
Arawak - natives of the
Caribbean*
Arikara -
Native American people from the upper Midwest United States
*
Armenians - natives of the
Caucasus region,
Armenia and
Nagorno-Karabakh, with a large worldwide
diaspora*
Aromanians (or
Macedo-Romanians) - a minority population of Northern
Greece,
Serbia, the
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,
Albania and
Bulgaria*
Arubans - population of
Aruba, a
Dutch island in the
Caribbean*
Arvanites*
Aryans -
Indo-Iranians, ancient inhabitants of South Asia (excluding Southern India),
Central Asia and the
Iranian plateau, but it can also refer to
Indo-Aryans, who are inhabiting the majority of South Asia, as well as Afghanistan
*
Asheninka Indigenous groups of Peru
*
Ashkenazi -
Jewish ethnic group whose ancestors are from central and eastern Europe.
*
Assiniboine -
Native American people living in
Alberta,
Saskatchewan, and
Montana; one of the
Sioux peoples
*
Assyrians -
Middle Eastern, principally in
Iraq and
Syria with large
diaspora*
Asturians- A non-recognized nation in the Spanish State
*
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*
Awá - an endangered
Amazonian tribe of
hunter-gatherers
*
Aymaras - South American people of
Bolivia and
Peru*
Azerbaijanis (
Azeris) -
Turkic people of the
Caucasus, living predominantly in
Azerbaijan, northern
Iran,
Russia and
Georgia.
*
Aztecs -
Central American people, descendants widespread in
Mexico*
Ba Na - inhabitants of Vietnam
*
Baggara or
Baqqarah -
Sudan*
Baguirmi - inhabitants of
Chad*
Bahamian*
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 Efé.
*
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
Balochistan*
Bamar - the majority ethnic group of
Myanmar*
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 - Inhabitants of Gabon
*
Bantu - ethnic group widespread in central and southern
Africa*
Baoule - major ethnic group in
Côte d'Ivoire*
Bapou*
Bariba - national minority in
Benin*
Barbadian*
Barbudan*
Basarwa - ethnic minority in
Botswana*
Bashkirs (or
Bashkhirs) - people of east central
Russia, inhabiting principally
Bashkortostan*
Basotho - inhabitants of
Lesotho*
Basques - a non-recognized nation located in the
Pyrenees between
Spain and
France*
Bassa - people of
Liberia*
Bassari*
Baster (also known as Baaster) - people descended from the offspring of Dutch speaking whites and black African women
*
Bateke - minority group in the
Republic of the Congo*
Batswana - largest ethnic group in
Botswana*
Bavarians - inhabitant of the
German state of
Bavaria, speakers of
Austro-Bavarian*
Baya-Mandjia*
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*
Berbers - a
North African people, living in
Morocco,
Algeria,
Tunisia,
Libya and
Egypt*
Betammaribe*
Bethio*
Beti-Pahuin - group of peoples from
Central Africa*
Bhotia - majority population of
Bhutan, of
Tibetan descent
*
Biafrans - inhabitant of eastern
Nigerian region (see also
Ibo)
*
Blackfeet (or
Blackfoot) - group of
Native American peoples of the
Great Plains of the
United States, comprising the Blackfoot,
Blood, and
Piegan tribes.
*
Bo Y*
Bonan*
Bonairean - population of
Bonaire,
Netherlands Antilles*
BORAN - Oromo inhabitants of Kenya and Ethiopia and Part of the Large Oromo Community
*
Bosniaks -
Muslim Slavic people of
southeastern Europe, inhabiting chiefly
Bosnia and Herzegovina and
Sandžak*
Bouganvilleans - inhabitants of island near
Papua New Guinea*
Boyko - the mountain people in
Central Europe*
Brau*
Bretons - indigenous to Brittany in northwest
France*
Britons - indigenous and majority population of
Great Britain encompassing the groups of
English,
Scottish and
Welsh as well as regional groups within these groups. Also used to refer to citizens of the
United Kingdom which includes
Northern Ireland.
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British-Canadian - Anglophone Canadians, largely of British descent.
*
Bru-Van Kieu -
Vietnam*
Brulé -
Native American people inhabiting parts of
Nebraska and
South Dakota; one of the
Sioux peoples
*
Bubi minority ethnic group in
Equatorial Guinea Majority Ethnic group on the island of
Bioko*
Bugis is one of the etnics in
Indonesia and
Malaysia, mostly inhabiting
South Sulawesi of Indonesia and state of
Sabah of Malaysia.
*
Bulang*
Bulgars - an ancient people of
central Asia*
Bulgarians -
Slavic people of the
Balkans*
Bunjevci -
Slavic people of the
Balkans*
Buryats - people of the eastern Russian republic of
Buryatia*
Bushongo - inhabitants of the
Congo basin region
*
Buyi - national minority of
China*
Caddo -
Native American peoples formerly residing in
Louisiana,
Arkansas and
Texas, now located in central
Oklahoma.
*
Cahuilla*
Caingang*
Cajun -
French-
Americans in
Louisiana. See also
Acadian.
*
Canaanites - ancient people of the eastern coast of the
Mediterranean Sea*
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*
Cape Verdean - inhabitants of
Cape Verde*
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
*
Caribbean*
Caripuna*
Catalans - inhabitants of north-eastern
Spain, southwestern
France and
Andorra*
Catawba -
Native Americans from the Carolina region of the
United States, now resident in western
South Carolina*
Caymanian*
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*
Ceylon Moors - people who are of
Arab stock living in
Sri Lanka *
Cham - a people of
Indonesian stock living in
Cambodia and central
Vietnam*
Chagga - a people of
Bantu stock (Niger-Congo-B) living in
Kilimanjaro Region in
Tanzania*
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
Tennessee and
North Carolina, now mostly living in
Oklahoma*
Cheyenne -
Native American people of the
Great Plains of the
United States*
Chicanos - a term used by some
United States citizens 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*
Chinese -
Han Chinese people, the dominant ethnic group 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*
Circassians or
Cherkezians*
Cho Ro*
Choctaw -
Native American people of
Mississippi and
Alabama, now mostly living in
Oklahoma with many still living in Mississippi
*
Chukchansi*
Chumash - Group of
Native American peoples inhabiting coastal southern California
*
Chuvash - A
Turkic people in
Russia*
Chut*
Ciboney -
Mesoamerican inhabitants of
Cuba, now extinct
*
Circassians*
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*
Colchians or
Kolchians*
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*
Coquille*
Cornish - a
British people from the South West of
Great Britain.
*
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*
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*
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
*
Cupeño*
Curacaoan - people of
Curaçao,
Netherlands Antilles*
Czechs -
Slavic people of
central Europe*
Dai (
Thai,
Thai Lue)
*
Dakelh -
First Nations people of
British Columbia,
Canada, one of the
Athabaskan group of peoples
*
Dadhich*
Dakota*
Damara*
Danmin*
Dargins -
Dagestani
*
Daur*
De'ang*
Deg Hit'an -
Alaska Natives*
Delaware - Eastern
United States Native American*
Dena'ina (also known as the Tanaina) -
Athabascan Alaska Natives*
Dendi*
Derbish*
Danish -
Germanic people of
Scandinavia*
Diegueno*
Dinka*
Diola*
Dogon - The Dogon are an ethnic group located mainly in the administrative districts of
Bandiagara and
Douentza in
Mali,
West Africa.
*
Dominican - from the
Dominican Republic*
Dominican - from
Dominica*
Dong*
Dongxiang*
Doma - Wandering gypsies of the Middle East
*
Dom - A
Dalit or untouchable
caste of India.
*
Dravidians - inhabitants of
Southern India and
Sri Lanka*
Drung*
Du*
Duala people from the coast of
Cameroon*
Dutch -
Germanic people of northern
Europe*
East Indian - inhabitants of the
East Indies (
South Asia and
South-East Asia)
*
E De*
Egyptians - native people of eastern North Africa.
*
English - a British people with ancestry from England, native to the United Kingdom
*
Enxet*
Eritrean - of
Eritrea, on the
Red Sea*
Eshira*
Eskimo - see also
Inuit and
Yupik*
Esselen*
Estonians -
Finnic people in
Estonia,
northeastern Europe*
Evenks*
Falasha/Beta Israel -
Jewish ethnic group from Ethiopia, Falasha are in israel now.
*
Faroese -
Germanic group of the
Faroe Islands between
Iceland and
Scotland.
*
Fars - native name for
Persians*
Fijian -
Polynesian group, central South
Pacific Ocean*
Filipino (or in referring to females, 'Filipina') - person of the
Philippines*
Finns - Ethnic group in
Finland and
Scandinavia*
Flemish -
Belgium and the
Netherlands*
Fon - Togo, Benin
*
Fur - western
Sudan (
Darfur)
*
Franks -
Germanic people of northwest
Europe who settled in
France in the time of the
Roman Empire*
French - the people of
France (more than disputed;
Ernest Renan's definition of a
nation on subjective criterias is opposed to
Fichte's definition of the
German people as a
Volk - an "ethnic group").
*
French American -
United States person of
French descent
*
French Canadian - of French Canadian culture, historically self-identified as
Canadiens, then later as
Canadiens-français and those today living in the province of Quebec as
Québécois. See also
Québécois,
Métis and
Acadians.
*
Frisians - Germanic group native to the "
German Bight" along the
North Sea*
Fula (also called Fulfulde, Fulani, or Fulbe)
*
Fulni-o*
Ga - people of southern
Ghana*
Gagauz*
Galician - people of northwestern
Spain*
Gaoshan - aboriginal people of
Taiwan*
Garifuna/Garinagu - a
Central American people of mixed
Amerindian and
African descent
*
Ge - northern
South America,
Caribbean coast
*
Geba Buru - inhabitants of the Buru Island in the center of mollucas
*
Gelao*
Georgian -
Caucasus region, of
Georgia*
Germans -
Germanic peoples, relating to
German culture and
German language*
Gia Rai*
Giay*
Gie Trieng*
Gongduk*
Gorani -
Slavic people in
Serbia*
Goshute*
Goulaye*
Greeks,
ethnic Greeks -
southeastern Europe*
Greenlander - inhabitants of the island in the northern Atlantic
*
Grenadian*
Grenadinian*
Griqua -
South Africa*
Gros Ventre*
Gruzim -
Georgian-speaking
Jews from
Georgia in the
Caucasus.
*
Guadeloupean*
Guajajara*
Guarani*
Gujaratis, inhabiting the state of Gujarat in Western India
*
Gurage -
Ethiopia*
Guruks*
Gurung*
H'Re*
Ha-Nhi*
Haida -
Pacific Northwest Native Americans*
Haitian*
Haitian Creole*
Hakka - a people of
China and
Taiwan*
Haliwa-Sapponi*
Hamshenis - An ethnic group in
Turkey*
Han Chinese - dominant ethnic group of
China*
Hani*
Hausa 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
Mongoloid,
Indo-Aryan,
Iranian/
Persian and
Turkic descent
*
Hercegovinian - arguably regional group of Croats and Serbs in
Herzegovina*
Herero*
Hesquiat*
Hezhen*
Hidatsa*
Himba*
Hispanics -
Americans with origins in
Hispanic America*
Hmar*
Hmong - Southeast
Asia*
Ho-Chunk*
Hoa*
Houma*
Hoh*
Hohokam*
Hoklo - A people of
Taiwan and a people of
Hong Kong*
Holikachuk*
Hopi -
Native American, of the southwest
United States*
Hui Chinese*
Hungarians - people in
Hungary,
central Europe*
Hualapai - Natives of
Mesoamerica*
Hupa*
Huastec*
Huron - Eastern
United States Native American*
Hutsuls - mountain people of
Ukraine and
Poland*
Hutu -
Rwanda*
Hyksos -
*
Icelandic - North
Atlantic island
*
Igbo -
West Africa (
Nigeria)
*
Illinois*
Incan - Of western
South America, along the
Andes and particularly
Peru*
Indian - inhabitants of
India (refers to many ethnic groups)
*
Indo-Aryan - speakers of
Indo-Aryan languages originating from
Northern India,
Pakistan,
Bangladesh and
Afghanistan (refers to many ethnic groups)
*
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-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*
Ingushes -
Ingushetia, northern
Caucasus* Ingalik - see
Deg Hit'an*
Innu -
Native Americans of eastern
Canada*
Inuit - Widespread in
Alaska and northern
Canada*
Iowa*
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*
Irish Traveller - nomadic people of Irish origin living in
Ireland,
Great Britain and the
United States*
Irish-American - Americans of
Irish descent
*
Iroquois -
Native Americans once widespread in the eastern
United States and
Canada*
Isleta - Natives from
New Mexico*
Israeli*
Isoko*
Istro-Romanian -
Istria*
Italian - from the
Apennine peninsula in the south of
Europe*
Italian-American - Americans of Italian descent
*
Italkim - the
Jews of Italy*
Jamaican - mixture of
African slaves,
Central American natives and
English settlers,
Caribbean*
Jacaltec - Maya people in
Guatemala*
Japanese people,
ethnic Japanese - from the islands off the east coast of
Asia*
Javanese - especially central to eastern part of
Java,
Indonesia*
Jat*
Jemez*
Jewish - An ethnic and religious group, a people who descend from
ancient Israel and are today concentrated in the modern day country of
Israel, West Europe and the
United States.
*
Jing*
Jingpo*
Jino*
Jivaroan*
Jola*
Jopadhola*
Jri*
Kaibartta - a people in
South Asia*
Karaja*
Karakalpaks - a
Turkic people of
Central Asia*
Karamanlides*
Kabardin - A
Caucasian people living in
Russia*
Kabyle - a people in
North Africa*
Kalasha of Chitral - an ethnic group in
Pakistan*
Kalispel*
Karachay - A
Turkic people in
Russia (primarily
Karachay-Cherkessia)
*
Karakalpaks - A
Turkic people in
Central Asia*
Karelians -
Finnic people in
Finland and
Karelia,
northeastern Europe*
Karen - Southeast
Asia*
Karok*
Kashubians - a
Slavic people of northern
Europe*
Katang*
Kato*
Katu*
Katuquina*
Kavango*
Kaw*
Kaxinawa*
Kazakhs -
Turkic people of
North and
Central Asia*
Keresan*
Khakas - A
Turkic people of
Russia, primarily
Khakassia*
Khang*
Khazars*
Khmer - Southeast
Asia,
Cambodia*
Khmu*
Kho Mu*
Khomani or
*
Khoikhoi - Southern
Africa*
Kickapoo*
Kinh or
Jing or
Vietnamese*
Kiowa -
Native Americans of the
Great Plains of the
United States*
Kirghiz -
Turkic people of
Central Asia*
Kittitian*
Klallam*
Klamath -
Native Americans of the
Pacific Northwest*
Klikitat*
Kolchan*
Kootenai*
Korean - from the Korean peninsula in
Asia and southern
Manchuria.
*
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*
Kumyks -
Turkic people of northern
Caucasus*
Kuruba Gowda - Indeginous people of India.
*
Kurds - large minority in
Turkey,
Iraq,
Iran and
Syria*
Kutenai*
Kwakiutl - of the
Washington/
British Columbia area
*
La Chi*
La Ha*
La Hu*
Laguna*
Lahu*
Laigain - from the northwestern region of Gaul
*
Laks -
Caucasus*
Lakota -
Native Americans of the
Great Plains of the
United States and
Canada*
Lamet*
Lanka Moors-
Sri Lankan Muslims of Arab origin*
Lao Sung -
China,
Vietnam,
Laos*
Lao Theung -
Laos*
Lao - southeast
Asia*
Latvians -
Baltic people of
northeastern Europe*
lavae*
Laven*
Lavi*
Lazoi*
Ethnic Lebanese*
Lebou*
Lemkos - mountain people of
Central Europe*
Lenca*
Lezgis -
Dagestani
*
Lhoba*
Li Chinese*
Limbus
*
Lipovans -
Danube Delta,
Romania*
Lisu*
Lithuanians -
Baltic people of
northeastern Europe*
Livonians -
Finnic people in
Latvia,
northeastern Europe*
Lobi*
Lo Lo*
Lotuko*
Louisiana Creole people - United States
Louisiana*
Low Saxon - Northern
Germany*
Lue*
Luiseno*
Lumbee*
Lummi*
Luo*
Lusitanian*
M'Baka*
Ma*
Macedonian Slavs -
Slavic people of
southeastern Europe*
Macuxi*
Madurese*
Magar*
Mahican -
Native Americans from
New England*
Mahorian*
Maidu*Maingtha - see
Achang*
Maka - people of southern
Cameroon*
Makah*
Makua*
Makong*
Malabo*
Malayalee People of Kerala State, South India
*
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 - indigenous people of the
Isle of Man*
Maonan*
Mapuche*
Maratha - People of Western
India, formerly emperors of undivided
India*
Mari -
Ugro-Finnic*
Maricopa*
Marquesas -
Polynesian island chain in the Eastern
Pacific*
Martiniquais*
Māori - indigenous people of
New Zealand*
Mashantucket Pequots -
Native Americans of
New England*
Mattaponi*
Matabele -
Southern Africa*
Maubere*
Mauritian*
Maya - collective term for diverse groups of indigenous peoples of south-east
Mexico and northern
Central America, widespread
*
Me-Wuk*
Megleno-Romanians - in
Greece*
Meherrin*
Melungeon*
Memon -
India and
Pakistan*
Menba*
Menominee - Eastern
United States Native American*
Mentawai -
Mentawai Islands,
West Sumatra,
Indonesia*
Métis*
Miami*
Miao*
Miccosukee - Eastern
United States Native American*
Middle Eastern -
Assyrian Jewish Arabic Turkish Kurdish Persians*
Mi'kmaq - Eastern
United States and
Atlantic Canada Native American*
Mina*
Minahasa -
Indonesia*
Minangkabau -
West Sumatra,
Indonesia*
Mingo*
Mission*
Miwok*
Mixtec -
Central American natives
*
Mizrahi -
Jewish from Asia (Middle East, Irak, Iran, India) and a part of Africa (a part of Jewish from North Africa : Maghreb, Egypt).
*
Mnong*
Modoc*
Mohave -
Native Americans of the southwest
United States*
Mohawk - Eastern
United States Native American*
Mohegan*
Moldovan - ethnic group that lives mainly in the
Republic of Moldova and
Ukraine*
Mon - southeast
Asia, particularly
Thailand*
Monacan -
Native American ethnic group from the Eastern
United States, not to be confused with a person from
Monaco*
Mongol - Central
Asia, between
Russia and
China*
Mono -
Native Americans from
Eastern California and
Nevada*
Montaukett*
Montenegrin - Slavic/Serbian
Dinaric people of
southeastern Europe (disputable)
*
Moor - people living mainly in Western Sahara 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 *
Muckleshoot*
Mulam*
Mulatto - Descendants from European and African ancestry.
*
Mundas*
Muong*
Mursi*
Museu*
Myene*
Nahanni*
Namaqua*
Nansemond*
Narragansett - natives of
New England*
Nauruan -
Micronesian group of islands in the
Pacific Ocean*
Navajo -
Native Americans of the southwest
United States*
Naxi*
Ndau*
Nenets -
indigenous people living in Russia
*
Nepalese - south
Asia, between
India and
China*
Nespelim*
Neapolitans - Specifically people from the Campania region of Italy but generally any southern Italian
*
Nevisian*
Newar*
Nez Percé -
Native Americans of the
Rocky Mountains area
*Ngac'ang - See
Achang*
Ngae*
Nhahuen*
Nhuon*
Ni-Vanuatu - of
Vanuatu, an island chain in the
Pacific Ocean*
Niominka*
Nipmuc*
Nishka*
Nisqually*
Niuean -
Polynesian island in the
Pacific Ocean*
Njem - people of southern
Cameroon*
Nogais -
Tatars of
Dagestan*
Nomlaki*
Nooksack -
Native Americans of
Washington *
Nu* or
Khomani*
Nubians - an African people native to the upper
Nile Valley, between Egypt and Sudan
*
Nung*
Nuu-chah-nulth -
Native Americans of the pacific northwest of
North America.
*
O Du*
Occitans
*
Oglala -
Native Americans of the central
United States*
Ojibwa*
Okamba*
Okande*
Olmec*
Omaha*
Oneida*
Onondangua*
Orkney Islander - people from Great Britain's Orkney Islands
*
Oromo -
Ethiopia*
Oroqin*
Osage Nation of Oklahoma (formerly also of Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas)
*
Ossetians -
Iranian speaking people of the
Caucasus*
Otoe-Missouria*
Ottawa*
Ovambo*
Pa-O - Myanmar
*
Pa Then*
Paiute*
Pākehā - Caucasian New Zealanders with no or little defined European links, typically of British, Irish and Dutch extraction
*
Pakoh*
Palestinian - much-disputed ethnic group of the
Middle East*
Pamunkey*
Panoan*
Parsi - ethnic group of the Indian subcontinent (
etymologically related to, but not to be confused with
Persian language word for a person from
Pars)
*
Pashtun (Pathan) - large group inhabiting
Afghanistan and
Pakistan (with smaller communities in
Iran and
India) who have mixed
Indo-Aryan,
Persian/
Iranian,
Turkic,
Kurdish,
Mediterranean,
Mongol and
Central Asian descent
*
Passamaquoddy*
Patagonian - southern tip of
South America,
Argentina*
Pataxo*
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.
*
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*
Persians - (
Persian) speaking
Iranian peoples in
Iran,
Afghanistan,
Tajikistan,
Uzbekistan and other parts of the
Caucasus and
Central Asia (linguistically belong to the
Aryan/
Indo-Iranian branch).
*
Phong*
Phu La*
Phu Noi*
Phu Thai*
Piegan*
Pima*
Pit River Indians*
Pitcairn-Norfolk*
Polish -
Slavic people of Central
Europe*
Pomaks -
Slavic Muslims found in
Bulgaria,
Turkey and
Greece*
Pomo*
Ponca*
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*
Puget Sound Salish - of
Washington*
Punjabis -
Indo-Aryan group inhabiting the
Punjab, located between
India and
Pakistan*
Pumi*
Puyallup*
Qashqai*
Quahatika*
Quapaw*
Quechan*
Qiang*
Quiché*
Quileute*
Quinault*
Rakhine - Rakhine State, Myanmar
*
Ra Glai*
Rais*
Ramapough Mountain Indians*
Rappahannock - of the mid-Atlantic region of the
United States*
Rashaida - minority group in
Sudan, closely related to the
Bedouin*
Rèunionnaise*
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
*
Romanian -
Eastern European
*
Russian -
Slavic people of
eastern Europe, originally of
Moscow area, now widespread through
Siberia and the
Urals to the
Pacific Ocean*
Rusyns (Ruthenes)
*
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*
S'Klallam*
Sami - indigenous people of northern
Scandinavia and
Siberia*
Samoans -
Polynesian island chain in the
Pacific Ocean*
Sadang*
Saek*
Salar*
Salish - of
Washington and
British Columbia*
Samaritan*
Samtao*
San*
San Chay*
San Diu*
Saponi - Native American people of North Carolina - related to the Catawba
*
Sardinians - inhabitants of an island in the Mediterranean
*
Sauk*
Sauk-Suiattle*
Scandinavian
*
Scottish - a British people from the north of
Great Britain*
Scotch-Irish - descendants of
Ulster-Scots who migrated to North America
*
Sephardi -
Jewish ethnic group from Mediteranean sea cost, descendants of Jewish from spain.
*
Sekani*
Seminole - natives of
Florida*
Sena*
Seneca -
Native Americans of the
New York area
*
Serbs -
Slavic people of
southeastern Europe (
Balkans)
*
Serer*
Serer-Ndut*
Seychellois*
Shangaan*
Shasta tribe*
Shawnee*
She*
Sherpa - group in
Nepal and the
Himalaya*
Shetlander Islanders - a British people from the Shetland Islands
*
Shinnecock*
Shoalwater Bay Tribe*
Shoshone*
Shui*
Si La*
Sicilian - inhabitants of an island in the Mediterranean
*
Sidamo -
Ethiopia*
Siddi*
Siksika*
Silesian -
Silesia *
Siletz*
Sindhis -
Indo-Aryans inhabiting Pakistan and India
*
Singmun*
Sinhalese -
Indo-Aryan group inhabiting the majority 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*
Slavic*
Slovak -
Slavic people of
central Europe*
Slovene -
Slavic people of
central Europe*
Slovincian - in
Pomerania*
Skokomish*
Somali - eastern
Africa*
Somba*
Sorbic - concentrated
Slavic minority in
Germany*
Soso-
Guinea,
Conakry*
Souei*
Spanish - southwestern
Europe*
Spokane*
Squaxin Island Tribe*
Stillaguamish*
Sundanese - western part of
Java,
Indonesia*
Suquamish*
Swazi -
southern Africa,
Swaziland*
Swinomish*
Ta Oi*
Tabasarans -
Dagestani
*
Tache*
Tachi*
Tagalog - The second largest Filipino Ethnic group
*
Tagish*
Tahitian -
Pacific Ocean island,
Polynesia*
Taíno - natives of the
Caribbean*
Tajik - specific ethnic group of
central Asia*
Tajik - one of
56 nationalities officially recognized by the
People's Republic of China*
Taliang*
Tamil -
Dravidian group widespread in
Southern India and
Sri Lanka*
Tanana*
Taos*
Tapuia*
Tarascan*
Tatars -
Turkic people*
Tats -
Dagestani
*
Tay*
Tehuelche*
Tejano -
Latino immigrants to
Texas*
Teotihuacan*
Terena*
Tetons -
Native Americans of the
Rocky Mountains area
*
Tewa*
Texan*
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*
Tobagonian*
Tocharian*
Tohono O'odham*
Tokelauan -
Polynesian island chain in the
Pacific Ocean*
Tolowa*
Toltec -
Central America*
Tonkawa*
Tongan -
Polynesian island chain in the
Pacific Ocean*
Tongva*
Topachula*
Totonac*
Trinidadian*
Tsakhurs -
Dagestani
*
Tsetsaut*
Tsimishian -
Pacific Northwest Native Americans*
Tsonga -
Southern Africa*
Tsuu T'ina*
Tswana -
Southern Africa (see also
Batswana)
*
Tualalip*
Tuareg*
Tujia*
Tukanoan*
Tukolor*
Tulutni*
Tum*
Tumbuka*
Tungus*
Tunica-Biloxi*
Tupian*
Turks (sometimes referred to as
Ottoman Turks) -
Turkic people of
Anatolia and
Southeastern Europe.
*
Turkmen -
Turkic people of
Central Asia*
Tutchone*
Tutsi - of
Rwanda and southern
Africa*
Tuvan -
Central Asian group in
Russia*
Tuvaluan -
Polynesian island chain in the
Pacific Ocean*
Twa*
Tzigane*
Ubykh - minority
Northwest Caucasian people of Manyas,
Turkey*
Uyghur - large
Turkic Muslim minority in the
People's Republic of China*
Ukrainian - widespread
Slavic people north of the
Black Sea,
Ukraine*
Ulster-Scots descendants of Scots who migrated to
Ulster*
Umatilla*
Umpqua*
Upper Skagit*
Ute -
Native Americans of the
Rocky Mountains area
*
Uzbek -
Turkic people of
central Asia,
Uzbekistan*
Vacceos - ancient people group in Northern
Spain*
Vaturanga - a people of the
Guadalcanal*
Venda -
South Africa*
Vietnamese or
Kinh or
Jing or archaically
Annamites- a people of South Mongolian origin living in Vietnam as the dominant majority.
*
Visyan - The largest Filipino ethnic group.
*
Wa*
Waccamaw*
Wailaki*
Welsh -
British people of the west of
Great Britain*
Walla Walla*
Wampanoag*
Wasco*
Washoe*
West Indian*
White Mountain Apache*
Wichita*
Wintun*
Wiyot - northern
California*
Wolof -
Senegal and elsewhere in western
Africa*
Wyandot*
Xacriaba*
Xavante*
Xerente*
Xhosa - of South
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:
Yavapai-Apache Nation,
Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe*
Yawanawa*
Yezidi*
Yi*
Yocha-Dehe*
Yokut*
Yoruba - western
Africa*
Yugoslavs - People from Former Yugoslavia. (Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.)
*
Yugur*
Yuki -
Native Americans of northwestern
California*
Yupik*
Yuma*
Yumbri*
Yurok*
Zaghawa of Northeast Africa.
*
Zapotec -
Central America*
Zaza*
Zeibeks*
Zhonghua minzu - Chinese pseudo-ethnic group.
*
Zhuang*
Zomi*
Zulu - of southern
Africa*
Zuni - of the southwestern
United States*
List of people by nationality*
List of indigenous peoples*
Indigenous peoples in the United States*
Indigenous peoples of the Americas*
Native Americans in the United States*
Alaska Natives*
Native Hawaiians*
Pacific Islanders*
Aboriginal peoples in Canada*
List of active autonomist and secessionist movements*
List of Chinese ethnic groups,
Ethnic groups in Chinese history*
Indigenous people of Brazil*
Indigenous cultures, kingdoms and ethnic groups of Senegal*
List of ethnic groups in Vietnam*
List of ethnic groups in Laos*
Northern indigenous peoples of Russia
