List of ethnic groups


List of ethnic groups - Definition

This is a list of names of ethnic groups. 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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Abenaki - Native Americans of Quebec, Vermont, New Hampshire, and possibly Maine (Algonquin people)
Abkhaz - Minority in Georgia, Turkey and Russia, Abkhazia
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
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 - Descendents of Dutch settlers / French Huguenot refugees & German Protestants of southern Africa
Agni - minority group in C�te 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 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, C�te 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 south-west Balkans, principally residing in Albania, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro and Greece.
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
American - Heterogeneous population of primarily English and Spanish speaking people with a similar culture living in the United States.
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
Annamites - A people of Mongolian descent living in Vietnam.
Apaches - groups of Native Americans in the western plains 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 - Native American people from the upper Midwest
Armenians - natives of the Caucasus region, Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, with a large worldwide diaspora
Aromanians (or Macedo-Romanians) - a population living as a minority in Northern Greece, Serbia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Albania and Bulgaria
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
Aw� - 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
Baggara or Baqqarah - Sudan
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 Ef�.
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 C�te d'Ivoire
Bapou
Bariba - national minority in Benin
Basarwa - ethnic minority in Botswana
Bashkirs (or Bashkhirs) - 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
Baster (also known as Baaster) - people descended from the offspring of Dutch speaking whites and black African women
Bate Boiko
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
Beja - nomadic group in northern Eritrea, southern Egypt, and northeastern Sudan
Belarusians - Slavic people of eastern Europe, Belarus
Bengalis - South Asian 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)
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
Brul� - 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
Bulang
Bulgars - an ancient people of central Asia
Bulgarians - Slavic people of southeastern Europe
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