List of contemporary ethnic groups

The following is an incomplete list of modern ethnic groups.

List

Name	Language Family	Country	Population	Notes
Abazins	Northwest Caucasian	Russia (Karachay-Cherkessia) Turkey	250,000
Abenaki		Canada (Quebec, Nova Scotia), United States (Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine)	12,000	Native Americans
Abkhazs	Northwest Caucasian	Abkhazia Georgia Turkey Russia	200,000 – 600,000
Aboriginal Australians		Australia	550,000
Abron		Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire	1,200,000
Abyssinian	Semitic	Ethiopia	1,400,000
Acadians	Romance	Canada (Canadian Maritimes), USA (Madawaska, Maine)	500,000	French-Canadians
Accohannock		USA (Maryland)		Native Americans
Achang		China (Yunnan)	29,000
Acehnese		Indonesia	1,200,000
Acholi		Uganda	1,200,000	Luo people
Achomawi		USA (California)	1,500	band of the Pit River tribe of Native Americans
Acoma		USA (southwest), Mexico	5,000	Native Americans
Adi		India (Arunachal Pradesh)
Adyghe	Northwest Caucasian	Russia (Adygea) Turkey	600,000	One of the two subgroups of Circassians.
Aeta		Philippines
Afar		Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti	5,000,000	Also known as Danakil
African American		USA	43,884,130
African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem		Israel	5,000	An ethnic minority of black people in Israel
Afrikaners	Germanic	South Africa	3,600,000	South Africans of mostly Dutch ancestry, but also including the descendants of French Huguenot and German Protestant refugees, who intermarried with Dutch settlers and adopted Afrikaans as their mother tongue
Afro-American peoples of the Americas		USA Brazil Colombia Haiti Canada Jamaica	180,000,000	Refers to people born in the Americas with African ancestors. Includes African Americans and Afro-Latin Americans.
Agaw		Ethiopia, Eritrea	874,000
Agni or Anyi people		Ghana Ivory Coast Sierra Leone	2,500,000
Aguls	Northeast Caucasian	Russia (Dagestan)	30,000
Ahtna		USA (Copper River)	500	Alaska Natives
Aimaq	Iranian	Afghanistan, Iran, Tajikistan	1,600,000
Aynu		China	<30,000	different from the Ainu of Japan and Russia
Aja		Benin, Togo	500,000	part of the Gbe linguistic/cultural group
Aka		Central African Republic, Congo, Republic of the	30,000
Akie		Tanzania	5,200
Ak Chin		USA (Tohono O'odham reservation, Pinal County, Arizona)	770	Native Americans
Akan		Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire	20,000,000
Akha		Laos, Burma, Thailand	450,000
Akuapem		Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana	1,000,000
Akhvakh people		Dagestan	8,000
Akyem		Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana	4,000,000
Alabama		USA (Oklahoma, Texas)	1,500	Native American people from whom the state takes its name; now sharing a reservation in Texas with the Coushatta
Alak		Laos	4,000
Albanians	Albanian	Albania Kosovo Macedonia	7,000,000	Balkan people
Aleut	Eskimo-Aleut	USA (Aleutian Islands), Russia (Chukotka Autonomous Okrug)	18,000	Alaska Natives
Algonquian		USA (eastern), Canada		Native Americans
Aliutors		Russia (Koryak Autonomous Okrug)	2,000 - 3,000
Alsatians	Germanic	France		inhabitants of Alsace, France who are of ethnic German origin.
Altaians	Turkic	Russia (Altai Republic)	367,000
Amahuaca		Bolivia, Peru	500
Americans	Germanic	USA	20,200,000	Refers to those who identify themselves as ethnically American. Not to be confused with the nationality or citizenship.
Amerasians		Japan, Korea, Republic of, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam		Children and grandchildren of mixed-race unions of U.S. American servicemen and Asian women, most notably during the Vietnam war era
Americo-Liberians		Liberia	150,000 - 200,000	Liberian ethnicity of African American descent
Amhara	Semitic	Ethiopia	20,000,000	also the Amharic language
Amish	Germanic	USA (Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, New York), Canada (Ontario)	250,000	North American religious minority, of German descent
Amungme		Indonesia (Papua province)	13,000
Andalusians	Romance	Spain	17,500,000
Andis		Bosnia and Herzegovina
Anga		Papua New Guinea
Anglo-Burmese		Burma	52,000	mixed-race descendants of Burmese and Anglophone British colonists
Anglo-Celtic Australian	Germanic	Australia	13,000,000	Majority inhabitants of Australia with mixed English and Celtic (especially Irish and Scottish, but also Welsh and even Cornish and Manx) ancestry
Annamites or Vietnamese or Kinh or Jing		Vietnam	77,000,000	Majority ethnic group of Vietnam
Alawites	Semitic	Syria Lebanon Turkey	4,000,000
Anuak		South Sudan, Ethiopia	350,000
Apaches		USA (Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma)	56,000	Native Americans
Apinaje		Brazil	1,847	Indigenous people of Brazil.
Arabs	Semitic	Arab League	422,000,000	originally from Arabia, now widespread throughout the Middle East and North Africa (see Arabization) and tens of millions of ethnic Arabs live worldwide in diaspora.
Aragonese	Romance	Spain	1,277,471	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		USA (Colorado, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Nebraska)	5,000	Native American people, formerly inhabiting Colorado and Wyoming, now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming
Arawak		Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Colombia, The Caribbean	450,000	Indigenous people of the Caribbean
Arbëreshë	Albanian	Italy	100,000
Archis	Northeast Caucasian	Russia (Dagestan)	1,200
Arikara		USA (North Dakota)		Native Americans
Armenians	Armenian	Armenia Russia USA France Azerbaijan (Nagorno-Karabakh)	8,000,000
Aromanians	Romance	Greece Serbia Romania	100,000 - 1,000,000
Arvanites	Albanian	Greece	50,000 - 200,000
Ashkenazi Jews	Germanic	USA Israel Russia	10,000,000 - 11,200,000
Assyrians	Semitic	Iraq Syria Sweden Lebanon Iran Turkey	1,700,000 - 2,000,000
Atoni		East Timor	600,000
Asante (Ashanti)		Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire	10,000,000
Asian American		USA	18,205,898	Americans descending from the various ethnic groups from the continent of Asia
Asheninka		Peru, Brazil	25,000 - 45,000	Indigenous people of Peru
Asmat		Indonesia (Papua Province)	70,000
Assiniboine		Canada (Alberta, Saskatchewan), USA (Montana)	3,500	Native American people of the Sioux
Asturians	Romance	Spain	1,076,896
Atacameno		Chile	2,000	Native Americans
Ati		Philippines	2,000
Atikamekw		Canada (Quebec)	4,500	Native Americans
Atsina		USA (Montana)	3,682	Native American people inhabiting Montana and formerly Saskatchewan
Atsugewi		USA (California)	850	Native Americans
Aukstaitians		Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus	300,000
Austrians	Germanic	Austria	10,000,000	a German-speaking, Germanic people, native to Austria and South Tyrol (today Italy)
Avars	Northeast Caucasian	Russia (Dagestan)	1,000,000
Awá		Brazil	300	An endangered Amazonian tribe of hunter-gatherers.
Aymaras		Bolivia, Peru, Chile	2,000,000	indigenous ethnic group of Andes and Altiplano
Ayrums	Turkic	Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Iran	?
Azerbaijanis	Turkic	Iran Azerbaijan Turkey Russia Georgia	22,000,000 - 35,000,000
Aztecs		Mexico	1,500,000	Native North American people, descendants widespread in Mexico, a tribe of the Nahuas (see also Nahuatl)
Babongo		Gabon
Bahrainis	Semitic	Bahrain	600,000	people of Bahrain
Badui		Indonesia	5,000 - 8,000
Ba Na		Vietnam	174,456
Baggara		Sudan	1,000,000
Baguirmi		Chad
Bagulals	Northeast Caucasian	Russia (Dagestan)	3,054
Bai		China (Yunnan province)	1,858,063
Bai		South Sudan
Bajau		Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei	401,800	Known as Sea Gypsies, they touch land only to bury their dead
Baka		Cameroon, Gabon	5,000 - 30,000	Pygmy people of Central Africa
Bakhtiari	Iranian	Iran	1,100,000
Balinese		Indonesia	3,000,000
Bakongo (Kongo)		Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Angola, Congo, Republic of the	10,000,000	Majority population of the Republic of the Congo
Balkars	Turkic	Russia (Kabardino-Balkaria)	110,000
Balochs	Iranian	Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Turkmenistan	25,000,000-30,000,000	traditionally nomadic Muslim people of Balochistan
Baltic Germans		Latvia, Estonia, Germany
Bamar (also Burmese and Burman)		Burma, Thailand, Singapore	30,000,000	Majority ethnic group of Burma
Bambara		Mali, Senegal, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Niger	2,700,000	Part of the Manding linguistic/cultural subgroup of the Mandé peoples
Bamileke		Cameroon	4,000,000	Majority inhabitants of Cameroon
Banat Swabians		Romania, Serbia		Ethnic German population of Southeast Europe
Banawa		Brazil	158	Indigenous people
Banda		Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Cameroon, South Sudan	1,300,000
Bandjabi		Gabon
Banjar		Indonesia, Malaysia	4,800,000
Baoule		Côte d'Ivoire		Akan people
Bapou
Barakzai		Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan	2,000,000 - 9,000,000	Pashtun people
Bariba		Benin	1,000,000
Bartangs		Tajikistan	3,000
Basarwa		Botswana, Namibia South Africa Angola	90,000	Indigenous people
Bashkirs	Turkic	Russia (Bashkortostan) Kazakhstan Ukraine Uzbekistan	2,000,000
Basotho	Bantu	Lesotho South Africa	4,300,000
Basques	Basque	Spain France	2,600,000	One of the few non-Indo-European-speaking peoples in Europe.
Bassa		Liberia	350,000
Bassari		Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau	10,000 - 30,000
Baster (also known as Baaster)		Namibia	25,181	People descended from the offspring of Dutch speaking whites and black Africans, usually found in Southern Africa
Batak		Indonesia	6,000,000
Batak		Philippines	500	Indigenous people
Bateke		Congo, Republic of the, Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Bats	Northeast Caucasian	Georgia	3,000
Batswana		Botswana, South Africa	3,900,000	Largest ethnic group in Botswana
Bavarians	Germanic	Germany	12,531,925	High German speaking people of Bavaria
Bedouins	Semitic	Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Jordan, Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Israel	8,000,000 - 10,000,000	Traditionally nomadic people
Beja		Sudan, Eritrea Egypt		Traditionally nomadic people
Belarusians	Slavic	Belarus	9,000,000
Bengalis	Indo-Aryan	Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia	300,000,000
Bemba		Zambia
Bene Israel		India, Israel	65,000	Indian Jews of western India
Berbers		Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Canary Islands	50,000,000
Berom		Nigeria
Betamaribe		Benin
Bethio		Senegal, Mauritania
Beti-Pahuin		Cameroon, Congo, Republic of the, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, São Tomé and Príncipe	3,320,000
Bezhtas		Russia (Dagestan)	6,198
Bhil (also known as Bheel)		India (central India)	13,000,000
Bhotiya		Bhutan, Nepal, India (Sikkim)	27,230
Biafada people		Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Gambia
Bicolano		Philippines (Luzon)	5,900,000
Biharis	Indo-Aryan	India, Pakistan	105,000,000
Blackfeet (also known as Blackfoot)		Canada (Alberta), USA (Montana)	32,000
Black British		UK	1,500,000
Black Indians		USA	182,000	African Americans with Native American ancestry and/or African Americans who were historically assimilated into Native American tribes.
Bouyei (also known as Bo Y and Buyi)		China, Vietnam	2,900,000
Bodo		India (Assam)	1,200,000
Afrikaners	Afrikaans	South Africa	1,500,000	Descendants from Dutch and French Huguenots
Bonairean		Bonaire	15,000
Bonan		China (northwest)	17,000
Bosniaks	Slavic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3,000,000	South Slavic people.
Botlikhs		Russia	16
Bougainvilleans		Papua New Guinea	175.160	There are 19 different language groups represented on Bougainville Iisland, in Solomon Islands.
Boyar		India		South Indian Hindu Telugu speaking community.
Boyko		Ukraine	390	Highlanders or mountain-dwellers.
Bozo		Mali	132,100
Brahui		Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran	2,528,000
Brau		Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam	313
Bretons	Celtic	France	1,246,798 - 3,120,288
Brulé		USA (Nebraska, South Dakota)		Native American Sioux peoples.
Bru-Van Kieu		Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia	129,559
Bubi		Equatorial Guinea	64,000
Budukhs	Northeast Caucasian	Azerbaijan	1,000
Bugis		Indonesia, Malaysia	6,000,000
Bulang		China (Yunnan province), Burma, Thailand	92,000
Bulgarians	Slavic	Bulgaria	9,000,000 - 10,000,000
Bunjevci		Serbia, Hungary	21,512
Burgenland Croats	Slavic	Austria	50,000	Ethnic Croats in the Austrian state of Burgenland.
Buryats	Mongolic	Russia, Mongolia	500,000
Bushongo		Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Caddo		USA (Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas)	5,757	Native American peoples.
Cahuilla		USA (California)	1,276	Native American peoples.
Caingang		Brazil (São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul)		Native American peoples.
Cajun		USA (Louisiana)	488,549	French-Americans in Louisiana. See also Acadian.
Caldoche		New Caledonia	71,721	French people of New Caledonia; largest French national colony outside of France.
Californio		USA (California), Mexico (Alta California)	300,000 - 500,000	Spanish-speaking inhabitants of the colonial Spanish/Mexican California and their descendants.
Campa		Bolivia	25,000 - 45,000
Canarians		Canary Islands	1,547,611	Berber based ethnic group.
Cantonese		China	66,000,000	Subgroup of Han chinese, people whose ancestral home is in Guangdong. Also called Yue. They form a significant proportion of Overseas Chinese.
Cape Coloured		South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe	4,539,790	Mixed-race population of the Western Cape province in South Africa.
Cape Malay		South Africa	200,000	Population descended from people of Maritime Southeast Asia in the Western Cape province in South Africa.
Castilians	Romance	Spain	6,500,000	Largest ethnic group of Spain, found in the Castile region; Also found in the Spanish diaspora.
Caprivian		Namibia		Inhabitants of the Caprivi Strip in northeastern Namibia.
Caribs		Caribbean	3,000	Native American peoples of northern South America, the Lesser Antilles, and the east coast of Central America.
Carinthian Slovenes		Austria
Catalans	Romance	Spain, France, Andorra	8,000,000	Also found in the Catalan-speaking diaspora around the world.
Catawba		USA (North Carolina, South Carolina)	2,600	Native American peoples.
Cayuga		USA (New York, Oklahoma), Canada (Ontario)	86,000	Native American peoples.
Cebuano		Philippines	20,000,000	Also known as Cebu.
Ceylon Moors		Sri Lanka	1,800,000	People of Arab descent living in Sri Lanka.
Chagga		Tanzania	2,000,000	People of Bantu descent (Niger-Congo-B) living in Kilimanjaro Region in Tanzania.
Cham		Cambodia, Vietnam	400,000	People of Indonesian descent living in Cambodia and central Vietnam.
Chambri		Papua New Guinea
Chamalals		Russia (Dagestan)	5,000
Chamorro		Guam, Northern Mariana Islands	177,000	Indigenous peoples.
Champenois-speaking people of Champagne-Ardenne of Northeastern France		France
Chechens	Northeast Caucasian	Russia (Chechnya)	1,700,000
Chehalis		USA (Washington)	691	Native American peoples.
Chemehuevi		USA (Arizona, California)	600	Native American peoples.
Chepang		Nepal	52,237
Cherokee		USA (North Carolina, Oklahoma)	316,049	Native American people originally of eastern and central Tennessee, most of Kentucky, southern West Virginia, western Virginia, northern Georgia (USA), northern Alabama, northwestern South Carolina, and western North Carolina, now mostly living in Oklahoma and North Carolina.
Cheyenne		USA (Montana, Oklahoma)	15,672	Native American peoples.
Chicanos		USA	31,689,000	USA citizens of Mexican origin. While some Mexican-Americans may embrace the term "Chicano", others prefer to identify themselves differently.
Chickahominy		USA (Virginia)	972	Native American people.
Chickasaw		USA	38,000	Native American people formerly of northeast Mississippi, west Tennessee, and northwest Alabama, now living in Oklahoma.
Chilcotin		Canada (British Columbia)	4,100	Native American peoples.
Chileans		Chile	17,094,275
Chinookan		USA (Washington, Oregon)		Native American peoples.
Chipewyan		Canada	11,000	Native American peoples.
Chippewa		USA (Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Montana), Canada (Great Lakes)	219,711	Native American peoples.
Chitimacha		USA (Louisiana)	720	Native American peoples.
Chitpavan		India (Maharashtra)	497,000	Smarta Brahmin community of Konkan.
Cho Ro		Vietnam	22,567
Choctaw		USA (Oklahoma, California, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Alabama)	160,000	Native American people of Mississippi and Alabama, now mostly living in Oklahoma and Mississippi.
Chukchansi		USA (California)	2,600	Native American peoples.
Chukchis		Russia (Chukchi Peninsula)	15,767	Indigenous peoples.
Chulym Tatars	Turkic	Russia (Tomsk Oblast)	656
Chumash		USA (California)	2,000 - 5,000	Native American peoples.
Chuncho		Peru		Indigenous peoples.
Chut		Vietnam (Quang Binh province)	3,829
Chuukese people		Federated States of Micronesia	53,280
Chuvash	Turkic	Russia (Chuvashia)	2,000,000
Clayoquot		Canada (Vancouver, British Columbia)	618	Native American peoples.
Coalhuiltec			Native American peoples.
Co Ho people		Vietnam	166,112
Co Tu people		Vietnam (Thừa Thiên -Huế, Quảng Nam)	61,588
Coast Salish		USA (Washington, Oregon), Canada (British Columbia)	18,000	Native American peoples.
Cochiti		USA (Southwestern)		Native American peoples.
Cocopah		USA (Arizona), Mexico (Baja California and Sonora)	891	Native American peoples.
Coeur d'Alene		USA (Rocky Mountains and Columbian Plateau)	2,000	Native American peoples.
Coharie		USA (North Carolina)	2,632	Native American peoples.
Coloured		South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe	4,539,790	Mixed-race inhabitants of South Africa. See also Cape Coloured.
Colville		USA (Washington)	322	Native American peoples; One of the Salish tribes.
Comanche		USA (Oklahoma, Texas, California, New Mexico)	14,700	Native American peoples.
Comorian		Comoros	798,000
Cong		Laos, Thailand, Vietnam	40,000	See also Phunoi.
Congolese people		Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Copper			Native American peoples.
Copt		Egypt	10,000,000 - 20,000,000	Christian ethnoreligious group in Egypt.
Coquille		USA (Oregon)		Native American peoples.
Cornish	Celtic	UK	534,300	British people originating in Cornwall and the South West of Great Britain.
Cornish American		USA	1,000,000 - 2,500,000	Cornish diaspora in the USA.
Cornish Australian		Australia	1,000,000	Cornish diaspora in Australia.
Cossacks	Slavic	Russia, Ukraine	3,500,000 - 5,000,000	Predominantly East Slavic people inhabiting the lower Dnieper and Don basins.
Costanoan		USA (California)	1,500 - 2,000	Native American peoples; One of the Mission Indian peoples.
Coushatta		USA (Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma)	1,520	Native American peoples. See also Alabama.
Cowichan		Canada (Vancouver Island, British Columbia)	4,000	Native American peoples.
Cowlitz		USA (Washington)	2,000	Native American peoples; One of the Salish peoples.
Cree		USA, Canada	200,000	Native American peoples.
Creek		USA (Alabama, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas)	71,502	Native American people originally of Alabama but now mostly residing in Oklahoma.
Créole		USA		People of Iberian or French ancestry in the Americas, or people of mixed Native American and European ancestry in Alaska. See Louisiana Creole people.
Creole Belizean		Belize		People of mixed European ancestry in Belize. See Belizean Creole.
Crimean Germans	German	Ukraine (Crimea)	3,000
Crimean Tatars	Turkic	Ukraine (Crimea) Uzbekistan Turkey	248,200
Croats	Slavic	Croatia Bosnia and Herzegovina	4,462,171	South Slavic peoples.
Crow		USA (Montana)	12,000	Native American peoples; One of the Sioux peoples.
Cubans		Cuba USA	11,247,925
Cupeño		USA (California)	1,000	Native American peoples.
Curaçaoan		Curaçao	142,180
Greek Cypriots	Hellenic	Cyprus	1,150,000	Ethnic Greek population in Cyprus.
Czechs	Slavic	Czech Republic	10,000,000	Slavic people of central Europe, consisting of Bohemians and Moravians.
Daasanach		Ethiopia	48,067
Dadhich
Dai (Thai, Thai Lue)		China, Laos, Thailand	1,500,000 - 2,000,000
Dakelh		Canada (British Columbia)		First Nations people, one of the Athabaskan group of peoples.
Dakota		USA, Canada	170,110	Autonym of the Santee Sioux, sometimes applied to all Sioux.
Damara		Namibia	100,000
Danes	Germanic	Denmark	4,996,980
Danezaa		Canada (British Columbia)	1,000	Former named: Beaver.
Danmin
Darhad
Dargins		Dagestan	591,000
Daribi		Papua New Guinea
Daur		China	132,394
Dayaks		Indonesia	2,000,000 - 4,000,000
De'ang		Burma, China, Thailand	557,000
Deg Hit'an		USA (Alaska)	250	Native American peoples.
Degar		Vietnam	1,000,000	Indigenous people of the Central Highlands.
Delaware		USA, Canada	16,000	Native American peoples.
Dena'ina		USA, (Alaska)	1,400	Athabascan people, also known as the Tanaina.
Dendi		Benin	195,633
Derbish
Desana		Colombia
Dhivehis		Maldives, India (Lakshadweep)	400,000	Indo-Aryan people native to the Maldives.
Dhodia		India
Didos		Russia	15,256	Also known as Tsez.
Diegueno		USA (California), Mexico (Baja California)	3,000 - 3,200	Native American peoples.
Dinka		South Sudan	5,000,000
Diola		Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau	500,000
Dogon		Mali, Burkina Faso	400,000 - 800,000
Dolgans	Turkic	Russia (Krasnoyarsk Krai)	7,261
Doma		Zimbabwe
Dominicans		Dominican Republic	10,090,000
Dominican American		USA	1,414,703	Dominican diaspora in the USA.
Don Cossacks	Slavic	Russia, Ukraine	200,000 - 2,000,000
Dong		China	2,960,293
Dongxiang		China	513,805
Dorze		Ethiopia	28,000
Dravidians	Dravidian	India (Southern India) Sri Lanka	217,000,000
Drung		China	7,000
Druze	Semitic	Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan	1,000,000 - 2,500,000	Also a Religion.
Du people
Duala people		Cameroon	400,000
Dungan		Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan	110,000
Dutch	Germanic	Netherlands	17,228,780	Germanic people of northern Europe.
Dyula		Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso		Also known as Jula. Part of the Manding linguistic/cultural subgroup of the Mandé peoples.
Ebira		Nigeria	1,400,000
Ecuadorian		Ecuador	16,500,000
Egyptians	Semitic	Egypt, Libya, USA, France	88,000,000
Elema		Papua New Guinea
Enets	Samoyedic	Russia, Ukraine	237
Enga		Papua New Guinea
English	Germanic	UK (England) USA Australia New Zealand Canada	100,000,000	Ethnic group of the UK, and of England, descended from ancient Britons (Celts) as well as Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. Sub-group of British.
Enxet		Paraguay	17,000
Eshira		Gabon
Eskimo	Eskimo-Aleut	Russia (Siberia), USA (Alaska), Canada, Greenland	150,000	See also Inuit and Yupik.
Estonians	Finnic	Estonia	1,100,000
European Americans	Germanic	USA	231,992,377 (2012 Census Estimate)	European Americans are the largest ethnic group in the USA. Note: While the Census Bureau includes Middle Eastern and North African residents in its definition of "White", the vast majority of this population is of European descent.
Evens	Tungusic	Russia	20,000
Evenki	Tungusic	Russia China	67,000
Ewe		Ghana, Togo	4,800,000	Part of the Gbe linguistic/culture group.
Falasha/Beta Israel		Israel, Ethiopia	125,000 - 130,000
Fante		Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire	3,000,000	Akan people.
Faroese	Germanic	Denmark (Faroe Islands) Iceland Norway	80,000 - 90,000
Persians	Iranian	Iran Iraq USA	51,000,000
Fereydan		Iran	5,000,000	Georgian people who mostly live in the city of Fereydoon Shahr and in the Fereydan region of Iran.
Fernandinos		Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe
Fijian		Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, USA, UK	500,000	Melanesian group, central South Pacific Ocean.
Finns	Finnic	Finland	5,400,000
Flemish	Germanic	Belgium	6,230,000	Dutch-speaking inhabitants of Belgium, found primarily in Flanders.
West Flemings		France (Nord, Pas-de-Calais)	187, 750	Flemish inhabitants of northernmost France.
Fon		Benin, Togo, Nigeria	3,500,000	Part of the Gbe linguistic/culture group.
Fox		USA (Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska)	4,000	Native Americans of the Midwestern USA. Historically their homelands were in the Great Lakes region. Euro-American colonization and settlement forced resettlement of the people into the American Midwest.
Franco-Mauritian		Mauritius	24,000	People of French origin living in Mauritius.
Franco-Réunionnaise		Réunion		People of French origin in Réunion.
Franconians		Germany		Inhabitants of the eastern part of former Francia in Germany.
French	Romance	France Canada	106,000,000 (65,800,000)	Includes people with French ancestry (brackets denote completely French).
Frisians	Germanic	Netherlands, Germany	1,500,000	Germanic peoples native to the "German Bight" along the North Sea.
Fula		Nigeria, Guinea, Senegal, Mali, Cameroon, Sudan, Burkina Faso, Niger	38,000,000 - 40,000,000	Also called Fulani or Fulbe.
Fulni-o
Fur		Sudan	744,000
Ga-Adangbe		Ghana, Togo, UK, Germany, USA, Canada	1,800,000
Gaddi		India (Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir)
Gaels		Ireland, Scotland, Isle of Man, USA, Canada	1,690,294	Celtic people originating in Ireland.
Gagauz	Turkic	Moldova (Gagauzia) Ukraine	240,000
Galicians	Romance	Spain (Galicia)	2,783,100	Also found in other parts of Spain and Latin America in diaspora.
Gaoshan		Taiwan	499,500	Aboriginal people of Taiwan.
Garifuna/Garinagu		Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua	600,000	Central American people of mixed Amerindian and African descent.
Garo		India (Meghalaya), Bangladesh	2,000,000
Gbaya		Central African Republic, Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo	970,000
Ge		Brazil (Caribbean coast)
Geba Buru		Indonesia (Buru)
Gelao		China	550,000
Georgian	Kartvelian	Georgia Russia Turkey	3,956,000
Germans	Germanic	Germany USA Brazil	150,000,000	Largest of the Germanic peoples. Includes people with German ancestry (Diaspora).
Gia Rai		Vietnam	332,557	Also known as Jarai.
Giay
Gibraltarians		Gibraltar, UK, USA, Spain	40,000	People of Gibraltarian origin.
Gie Trieng
Godoberis		Dagestan	3,000
Gogodali		Papua New Guinea
Gongduk		Bhutan	2,100
Gorals		Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic
Gorani		Serbia	13,946 - 60,000	Slavic people in Serbia
Goshute		USA (Nevada, Utah)	450	Native American peoples.
Gotlanders		Sweden
Goulaye
Greeks	Hellenic	Greece	14,000,000 - 17,000,000
Griqua		South Africa, Namibia	2,000,000 - 5,000,000
Gros Ventre		USA (Montana)	3,682	Native American peoples.
Gruzinim		Georgia, Israel, USA	180,000	Georgian-speaking Jews from Georgia.
Guadeloupean		Guadeloupe
Guajajara		Brazil	19,471	Indigenous people.
Guarani		Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia	257,400	Indigenous people.
Gujaratis		India (Gujarat)	65,000,000 - 75,000,000
Gullah		USA (South Carolina, Georgia)		Descendants of enslaved Africans.
Gurage		Ethiopia	1,867,377
Guria
Guru		Côte d'Ivoire
Gurung		Nepal	543,571
Hadza		Tanzania	1,000	an ethnic minority group in Tanzania.
Haida		USA (Alaska), Canada (British Columbia)	2,000	Native Americans inhabiting the Pacific Northwest part of the country.
Haitian		Haiti, France, USA, Canada, Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, Dominican Republic, Bahamas	10,123,787
Hakka		China (Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi), Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Australia	80,000,000	a distinct subgroup of Han Chinese of the China and Taiwan.
Haliwa-Saponi		USA (North Carolina)	3,800	Native Americans inhabiting North Carolina
Hamar		Ethiopia	42,838	southern Ethiopia
Hamshenis	Armenian	Turkey, Russia, Abkhazia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan	700,000	An Armenian ethnic group mostly in Turkey.
Han Chinese	Sinitic	China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Macau	1,310,158,851	dominant ethnic group of the China, Taiwan and Singapore and largest ethnic group in the world.
Hani		China (Yunnan), Vietnam, Laos, Burma	1,500,000
Hasani		Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey
Hausa		Nigeria, Niger, Sudan, Chad, Saudi Arabia, Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana	40,000,000	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		USA (Arizona)	750	Native Americans inhabiting Arizona
Haw		Thailand		Chinese people who migrated to Thailand via Burma or Laos. Most of them were from Yunnan, the southern province of China.
Hawaiian		USA (Hawaii, California, Nevada, Washington, Guam)	164,918	Polynesian indigenous people of the island chain in the Pacific Ocean.
Hapa		USA	527,077	mixed Asian/Native Hawaiian/White-European American peoples in the USA.
Hazara	Iranian	Afghanistan Iran Pakistan Canada	6,900,000
Herero		Namibia, Botswana, Angola	240,000	most live in Namibia.
Hesquiat		Canada (British Columbia)	680	Native Americans inhabiting British Columbia
Hezhen		Russia, China, Ukraine	18,000	Also known as "Nanai People".
Hidatsa		USA (North Dakota)		Siouan people, a part of the Three Affiliated Tribes.
Himba		Namibia, Angola	20,000 - 50,000
Hindoestanen		Suriname, Netherlands	135,000	Also known as Indo-Surinamese
Hindi people	Indo-Aryan	India		people from the loosely defined linguistic region in North and Central India where Hindi languages are widely spoken.
Hinukhs		Russia	443	from the Tsunta region of southwest Dagestan
Hispanic	Romance	USA	49,850,000	Americans with origins in (as defined by law, in Mexico, Puerto Rico, or other Spanish-Speaking Cultures.) Latin America.
Hmar		India	less than 100,000	northeast India
Hmong		China, Vietnam, Laos, USA, Thailand, France, Australia, French Guiana, Canada, Argentina, Germany	4,000,000 - 5,000,000	an ethnic minority in China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, USA, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, French Guiana varies from languages.
Hoa		Vietnam	823,071	a minority living in Vietnam consisting of persons considered to be ethnic Chinese.
Ho-Chunk		USA (Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa)	7,000	also known as Winnebago.
Hoh		USA (Washington)	81	Native Americans inhabiting western Washington.
Hoklo		China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Burma, Philippines	60,000,000	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		Canada (Yukon Territory)		an Athabaskan people native to western Alaska.
Hopi		USA (Arizona)	18,327	Native American, of the southwest USA.
Houma		USA (Louisiana)	10,837	Native American.
H're		Vietnam	113,111	most live in Vietnam's South Central Coast.
Hualapai		USA (Arizona)	1,965	Native American.
Huastec		Mexico	66,000	Natives of Mesoamerica.
Hui people		China	10,000,000	a predominantly Muslim ethnic group in China.
Huichol		Mexico	43,929	Native Americans in Mexico.
Hungarians	Ugric	Hungary Romania (Transylvania) Slovakia Serbia (Vojvodina)	13,200,000 - 14,500,000	also known as Magyars.
Hunzakuts		Pakistan	87,000	also known as Burusho people.
Huli		Papua New Guinea	136,000	live in the Southern Highlands districts of Tari, Koroba, Margaraima and Komo, of Papua New Guinea.
Hunzibs		Russia	1,840	a group in southern Dagestan.
Hupa		USA (California)	2,140	Native American.
Huron		USA (Michigan, Oklahoma, Kansas), Canada (Quebec)	8,900	Eastern USA Native American. Also known as Wyandot.
Hutsuls		Ukraine, Romania	26,290	Ukrainian mountain people of Ukraine and Romania.
Hutu		Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo	11,500,000	a people mainly of Rwanda and Burundi.
Hyksos		Egypt		historic peoples of ancient Egypt, originated in Southwest Asia.
Iatmul		Papua New Guinea	343,180	an ethnic minority group in Papua.
Iban		Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei	600,000	an ethnic group of Dayak (Sea Dayak) in Borneo, particularly in Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei.
Ibanag		Philippines	500,000	A Filipino minority ethnic group.
Ibibio		Nigeria	4,482,000	West Africa (Nigeria).
Icelanders	Germanic	Iceland	450,000	Majority ethnic group of Iceland.
Igbo		Nigeria	30,000,000	A West African people based primarily in the southeastern part of Nigeria. Their language is also called Igbo.
Igorot		Philippines	500,000	A Filipino minority ethnic group.
Ijaw		Nigeria	15,000,000	Collection of peoples indigenous mostly to the forest regions of the Niger Delta.
I-Kiribati		Kiribati	103,500	Mix of diverse islander communities, including different populations on Phoenix-islands, Line-Islands, etc.
Illiniwek		USA		also known as the Illini, Illinois, or Illinois Confederacy.
Ilocano		Philippines	9,136,000	Third largest Filipino ethnic group.
Ilonggo		Philippines	8,200,000	A Filipino ethnic group.
Imereti		Georgia	700,000
Inca		Peru		Of western South America, along the Andes and particularly Peru.
Indo-Caribbean		Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Guyana, Suriname	2,000,000	Caribbean people (found mostly in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica) and South American people (found mostly in Guyana, Suriname)of South Asian origins India, Nepal, Burma, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Indo-Guyanese		Guyana	327,000	Guyanese people of (South Asian) Indian origins.
Indo-Jamaicans		India		East Indians from Jamaica) as a result of British indentureship in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Indo-Trinidadian		Trinidad and Tobago	525,000	Trinidad and Tobago people of South Asian origins: India, Pakistan, Nepal, Burma, Bangladesh, Maldives, Sri Lanka and former British colonies of Guyana in South America.
Ingessana		Ethiopia		an ethnic minority group in Ethiopia.
Ingushes	Northeast Caucasian	Russia (Ingushetia)	500,000
Innu		Canada	18,000	Native Americans of eastern Canada.
Inuit		USA, Canada, Greenland	150,000	Widespread in Alaska, northern Canada and Greenland.
Inupiat		USA	13,500
Irani		India		religious and ethnic community of the Indian subcontinent. See also Parsi.
Iraqi Turkmens	Turkic	Iraq	500,000 - 3,000,000
Irish	Celtic	USA Ireland UK (Northern Ireland)	80,000,000
Iroquois		USA, Canada	125,000	Native Americans once widespread in the eastern USA (the Iroquois Confederacy of upstate New York) and Canada.
Ishkashmis		Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan	100,000
Isleta		USA		Natives from New Mexico.
Isoko		Nigeria	475,000
Istriot		Croatia	1,000
Istro-Romanians		Croatia	76	Istria.
Italians	Romance	Italy	140,000,000 (60,000,000)	Largest ethnic group in Italy. Includes people with Italian ancestry (brackets denote completely Italian).
Itelmens	Chukotko-Kamchatkan	Russia	3,193
Itsekiri		Nigeria		A Nigerian minority ethnic group, located in Delta State in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, West Africa.
Izhorians		Ukraine, Russia	1,000
Jakaltek people		Guatemala	47,024 - 88,000	Maya people of Guatemala.
Jakut		Russia		an ethnic minority in Russia.
Janjevci		Kosovo, Croatia	10,000	South Slavic group.
Japanese	Japonic	Japan	127,000,000	from the islands off the east coast of Asia (Yamato people, Ryukyuan people, Ainu people) and the Japanese home islands (Honshū, Kyushu and Shikoku, plus Hokkaido since the 17th century).
Jassic		Hungary		(Jász) of Hungary.
Javanese		Indonesia	95,217,022	especially central and eastern part of Java, Indonesia, about 80 million on the island of Java and 50 million throughout Indonesia.
Jebala		1,000,000	an ethnic group of northern Morocco.
Jemez		USA		Pueblo Indians of New Mexico.
Jing		22,517
Jingpo		1,130,000	an ethnic group in Yunnan.
Jino		22,000
Jorcharias
Jivaro		Peru Ecuador		An ethnic minority in Peru and Ecuador.
Jola		Senegal	500,000
Jopadhola		Uganda
Jri
Kabarday	Northwest Caucasian	Russia (Kabardino-Balkaria) Turkey	520,000 - 1,628,500	One of the two subgroups of Circassians.
Kalasha of Chitral		Pakistan	4,100	an ethnic group in Pakistan.
Kale		Wales		Romani people in Wales.
Kalenjin		Kenya	4,967,328
Kallawaya		Peru		an ethnic minority in Peru.
Kaliai			an ethnic minority group in Papua.
Kalispel		USA	400
Kalaallit		Greenland	50,000	Inuit living in Greenland.
Kalmyks	Mongolic	Russia (Kalmykia)	184,000
Kaluli		Papua New Guinea		an ethnic minority group in Papua.
Kamas		USA
Kamayura		Brazil	467	An ethnic minority in Brazil.
Kannadiga		India	45,000,000	people from Karnataka, India.
Kanembu		Chad	655,000
Kapauku			a Papuan ethnic group speaking Ekari.
Kapampangan		Philippines	2,890,000	A Filipino ethnic group.
Karachay	Turkic	Russia (Karachay-Cherkessia)	300,000
Karaims	Turkic	Ukraine	2,000
Karajá		Brazil	3,000	An ethnic minority in Brazil.
Karakalpaks	Turkic	Uzbekistan (Karakalpakstan)	520,000
Karamojong		Uganda		a people primarily of northeastern Uganda.
Karatas
Karelians	Finnic	Russia (Karelia) Finland	70,000
Karen		Burma Thailand	9,000,000	Southeast Asia.
Karok		USA	4,800	Natives of California, USA.
Kashubians		Poland	500,000	a Slavic people of northern Europe.
Katang		Laos	95,440
Katuquina
Kavango		Namibia	200,000
Kaw or Kansa Indians		USA	3,126	Midwestern Native Americans.
Kayapo		Brazil	8,638	An ethnic minority in Brazil.
Kazakhs	Turkic	Kazakhstan China	13,600,000
Kenyah		Indonesia	69,256	Indonesia.
Kenyan American		USA	92,638	Current president of the USA Barack Obama has a Kenyan father.
Keresan
Kets		Russia	1,600
Khakas	Turkic	Russia (Khakassia)	80,000
Khang		Vietnam	13,840
Khants	Ugric	Russia (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug)	28,000
Khasia
Khassonké		Mali
Khevi
Khevsureti
Khinalugs		Azerbaijan	2,075
Khmer		Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam	16,000,000	Largest ethnic group in Cambodia. Also found in neighbouring countries.
Khmu	Austroasiatic languages	Laos Burma China Thailand Vietnam	540,000
Kho Mu		Laos
Khoikhoi			Southern Africa.
Khomani or Nu
Khufis		Tajikistan
Khvarchis
Kickapoo		USA Mexico	5,000	Native Americans of the USA and a small Kickapoo tribal community in the Rio Grande valley of Texas and northern Mexico.
Kĩkũyũ		Kenya	6,623,000	Native to the African country of Kenya.
Kinh or Jing or Vietnamese		Vietnam USA Cambodia	77,000,000	Majority ethnic group in Vietnam.
Kiowa		USA	12,000	Native Americans of the Great Plains of the USA.
Klallam		USA Canada
Klamath		USA		Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest (USA).
Klikitat		USA
Knanaya		India	300,000	Originally Jewish migrants to India; they are now found in various religious sects including Christianity. They follow strict endogamy, a practice which has been facing increasing challenge from exogamous peoples now. Now many have migrated worldwide.
Kolchan		USA
Kodava		India	166,000	an indigenous people and an ethno-linguistic minority residing in present-day SW Karnataka, in India.
Kombai			ethnic minority in Papua.
Kogi			an ethnic minority in Colombia.
Komi	Finnic	Russia (Komi Republic)	295,000
Koniag		USA		Alutiiq people of Alaska.
Kongo		Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Angola	10,000,000	a major ethnic group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the largest in the Republic of the Congo.
Kootenai		USA Canada	1,984
Koptian			an ethno-religious group, most live in Egypt.
Korean		South Korea North Korea	80,000,000
Korowai		Indonesia	3,000	An ethnic minority in Papua.
Koryaks		Russia	8,812	An ethnic minority in Russia.
Kosraean			Ethnic group at Kosrae, part of the Federated States of Micronesia.
Koskimo		Canada	5,500
Koyukon		USA	2,300	Natives of Alaska.
Kozaks			Natives of USA.
Kpelle		Guinea Liberia	1,220,000	Group from Guinea and Liberia.
Kraho			Natives of northwestern Brazil.
Krashovans		Romania	5,000
Kri			Group from Sierra Leone, western Africa.
Kristang		Malaysia Singapore		A creole ethnic group in Malacca, Malaysia and Singapore.
Krymchaks	Turkic	Ukraine (Crimea)	?	A Turkic group that practise Judaism.
Kuban Cossacks	Slavic
Kubu		Indonesia		Indonesia.
Kuikuru			An ethnic minority in Brazil.
Kuna		Panama Colombia	50,000	an ethnic minority in Panama.
Kumeyaay		USA Mexico	5,000
Kumyks	Turkic	Russia (Dagestan)	500,000
Kurds	Iranian	Turkey Iran Iraq Syria	30,000,000 - 38,000,000
Kuruba Gowda			Indigenous people of India.
Ktunaxa			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	Kyrgyzstan	4,500,000
La Chi
La Ha		Vietnam	8,177
Lahu		China Burma Thailand	1,000,000
Laguna		USA		Pueblo Indians of New Mexico.
Laigain			from the northwestern region of Gaul.
Lakota		USA	100,000	Native Americans of the Great Plains of the USA and Canada.
Laks		Russia	180,000	Caucasus.
Lamet		Laos Thailand	22,000
Langi (also Lango) – an ethnic group of Uganda (a Luo people)
Lao		Laos	3,800,000	southeast Asia.
Lao American		USA	232,130
Lao Sung	Tai-Kadai	Laos China Vietnam Thailand	200,000
Lao Theung		Laos	2,000,000	Laos.
Latgalians		Latvia	150,000	Baltic people in Eastern part of Latvia, northeastern Europe.
Latvians	Baltic	Latvia	1,650,000
Lavae
Laven
Layap		Bhutan	1,100	ethnic minority in the North of India.
Laz	Kartvelian	Georgia Turkey	202,000
Lazoi
Lebou		Senegal
Lemkos		Poland Slovakia	66,000	Slavic mountain people of Central Europe (Ukraine, Poland and Slovakia).
Lenca		Honduras El Salvador	137,000	An ethnic minority in Honduras.
Lengua			An ethnic minority in Argentina.
Leonese		Spain	1,000,000	A European people in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsule (Spain and Portugal). Their language is Leonese.
Lezgis	Northeast Caucasian	Russia (Dagestan) Azerbaijan	900,000
Lhoba		China	5,600
Lhotshampa		Bhutan	240,000	people of Nepali ancestry in Bhutan. Can be of any ethnic or religious group, but are mostly Pahari-speaking Hindus. Found mostly in the south of the country.
Li		China (Hainan)	1,460,000
Limbus		Nepal	463,000
Limburgish			speaking people of the tri-national area of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.
Lipka Tatars	Turkic	Belarus Lithuania Poland	10,000 - 15,000
Lipovans		Romania	36,000	Danube Delta, Romania.
Lisu		China Thailand Burma	1,200,000	an ethnic minority in Thailand.
Lithuanians	Baltic	Lithuania	4,000,000
Livonians	Finnic	Latvia	204
Lo Lo
Lobi		Ghana Burkina Faso Côte d'Ivoire	160,000
Lotuko		South Sudan	100,000
Louisiana Creole people		USA		USA Louisiana.
Lozi		Zambia
Lua		Laos		A minority cultural group of Laos, people in Laos, Southeast Asia.
Luba		Democratic Republic of the Congo	13,000,000	an ethnic minority group in the Congo.
Lue		China Laos	2,000,000
Luhya		Kenya	6,100,000	an ethnic group of Kenya comprising several closely related ethnic groups. A few other related ethnicities are located in two of Kenya's neighboring countries: Uganda and Tanzania.
Luiseno		USA	2,500	Native Americans of Southern California (USA).
Lumad		Philippines		A Filipino minority ethnic group.
Lumbee		USA	55,000	Native Americans of the Carolinas (USA).
Lummi		USA	6,590	Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest (USA).
Lunda		DRC Zambia Angola	1,450,000	an ethnic minority group in DR Congo.
Lun Bawang/Lun Dayeh (Borneo)		Indonesia Malaysia Brunei	38,100	an ethnic minority group in (Malaysia,Brunei,Indonesia)
Luo (also Joluo)		Kenya Tanzania	6,000,000	a people of Kenya and Tanzania (part of the larger Luo group).
Luxembourgers	Germanic	Luxembourg	430,000	ethnic group native to Luxembourg.
Luxembourg American		USA	40,658
Maasai		Kenya Tanzania	1,270,000	people of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania.
Macaoese		Macau	500,000	People of Macau origin. Known as 'Macaísta' in Portuguese.
Macedonians	Slavic	Macedonia	2,000,000 - 2,200,000
Macuxi		Brazil Guyana	30,000
Madeirans		Madeira	267,785
Madheshis		Nepal	2,600,000
Madurese		Indonesia	7,179,356
Magar people		Nepal	1,900,000
Marwari				People from Mewar, Rajasthan, Indian region, generally known for their trading skills
Mewat				Ethnic group from Mewat, Rajasthan, Indian region
Mahican		USA		Native Americans from New England.
Mahorian
Maidu		USA	2,500	Native Americans of Northern California (USA).
Mailu				an ethnic minority group in Papua.
Maingtha				See Achang.
Maka		Cameroon	90,000	people of southern Cameroon.
Makah		USA	1,213
Makong
Makua		Mozambique	1,160,000
Malagasi				an ethnic minority in Madagascar.
Malay		Malaysia Singapore	27,000,000	located primarily in the Malay peninsula, and parts of Sumatra and Borneo.
Malayalee		India	35,757,100	People of Kerala State, South India.
Maliseet		USA Canada
Maltese	Semitic	Malta	1,000,000
Mam		Guatemala Mexico	640,000	a Maya people of Guatemala.
Mamamwa				an ethnic minority in the Philippines.
Manasi				An ethnic minority in Bolivia.
Manchu		China	10,000,000	Manchuria, now part of the People's Republic of China, north of Korea.
Mandan		USA		Native Americans.
Mandinka		Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Niger, The Gambia	13,000,000	an ethnic group in West Africa (part of the Manding linguistic/cultural subgroup of the Mandé peoples).
Mang people		Vietnam	4,500
Mangbetu		DRC		an ethnic minority in DR Congo.
Mangyan		Philippines	100,000	A Filipino minority ethnic group.
Mansis	Ugric	Russia (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug)	12,500
Manx		England	40,000	indigenous people of the Isle of Man.
Maonan		China	107,000
Māori		New Zealand	750,000	indigenous people of New Zealand.
Mapuche		Chile Argentina	1,700,000	Non-homogeneous peoples of South America, inhabiting Chile and western Argentina.
Marathis	Indo-Aryan	India	70,000,000 - 80,000,000	a.k.a. Maharashtrians due to the state they are the majority in – ethnic group of Maharashtra, Goa and surrounding states in India.
Mari		Russia	600,000	Uralic.
Maricopa		USA	800
Marind-Anim			an ethnic minority in Papua New Guinea.
Mashantucket Pequots		USA	785	Native Americans of New England.
Matabele			Southern Africa.
Mataco		Argentina	42,000	An ethnic minority in Argentina.
Matis		Brazil	390	ethnic minority.
Mattaponi		USA	1,000
Maubere
Maya		Guatemala Mexico Belize Honduras El Salvador	6,000,000	collective term for diverse groups of indigenous peoples of south-east Mexico and northern Central America, widespread although most live in Mexico and Guatemala, and extends into Central America and recent immigrants of Mayan descent in the USA.
Mayo		Mexico	40,000	An ethnic minority in Mexico.
Mazandarenis		Iran	4,000,000	Southern Caspian people.
M'Baka		CAR DRC
Mbaya		Paraguay Brazil		An ethnic minority in Paraguay.
Mbochi		Congo		third largest ethnic group of the Republic of the Congo.
Mbuti		DRC	30,000
Megleno-Romanians	Romance	Greece	6,000	a Vlach ethnic group in Greece.
Meherrin		USA	900
Mekeo			an ethnic minority group in Papua.
Melungeons of the Southeastern USA		USA
Memon		India Pakistan		ethnic group in India and Pakistan.
Menba		India China Burma	78,000
Mende		Sierra Leone Liberia	2,000,000	an ethnic group in Sierra Leone (a Mande people).
Menominee		USA	8,700	Eastern USA Native American.
Mennonites		USA	1,700,000	They are divided into ** The Amish or the Pennsylvania Dutch, and ** The Hutterites.
Mentawai		Indonesia	64,000	Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra, Indonesia.
Mer		India		Saurashtra, Gujarat, India.
Meskhetians
Mestizo	Aymaran, Guaraní, Mayan, Nahuan, Philippines, Quechuan, Romance, and other Amerindians language family	Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada (Metís), Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela	230,000,000-260,000,000	People of mixed European and Native America or people of mixed Filipino and non-natives (mainly white) ancestry from Americas and the Philippines.
Métis		Canada USA	390,000
Meitei		India		People of a South Asian Ancient Kingdom, now merged to India, Also known as Manipuri, this ethnic group has sub groups like Meitei Naga, Meitei Kuki, Meitei Pangan and other subsets.
Me-Wuk		USA	3,500
Mbuti		DRC	30,000	an ethnic minority group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Miccosukee		USA	400	Eastern USA Native American.
Mi'kmaq		USA Canada	65,000	Eastern USA and Atlantic Canada Native American.
Mina		India		Meenas, Meena or Mina is a community mainly found in Rajasthan, India.
Mekeo			an ethnic minority group in Papua.
Miao		China	9,000,000	Ethnic minority group primarily spread out across southern China.
Minahasa/Manadonese			Northern Part of Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Minangkabau		Indonesia	8,000,000	West Sumatra, Indonesia.
Mingo people		USA
Mingrelians	Kartvelian	Georgia	400,000
Miskito		Nicaragua Honduras	200,000	native people of coastal Nicaragua.
Mission
Mizrahi Jews		Israel	1,750,000	see also Arab Jews
Mitsogo		Gabon		an ethnic minority group in Gabon.
Miwok			Native Americans of Northern California (USA).
Mixtec		Mexico USA	830,000	Central American natives. Live in Mexico.
Mizrahi Jews	Semitic	Israel	1,750,000
Mizo		India Bangladesh Burma	1,500,000	an ethnic minority in Bangladesh.
Mlabri		Laos	300	an ethnic minority in Laos.
Mnong		Vietnam Cambodia	102,741
Modoc		USA	800	Native Americans of the Western USA.
Mohajir		Pakistan	13,000,000	Descendents of Indian immigrants to Pakistan at the time of partition.
Mohave		USA	767	Native Americans of the southwest USA.
Mohawk		USA		Eastern USA Native American.
Mohegan		USA	1,300
Mokshas		Russia	296,000	Finnic people in Middle Volga area
Molise Croats		Italy	5,000
Mon		Burma Thailand	8,100,000	southeast Asia, particularly Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and China.
Monacan		USA	2,000	Native American ethnic group from the Eastern USA.
Monesque			people from Monaco.
Mongo		Democratic Republic of the Congo	12,000,000
Mongols	Mongolic	Mongolia China Russia	11,000,000
Mono			Native Americans from Eastern California and Nevada.
Monovish		Ireland, UK
Montagnais		Canada	18,000	Native Americans of Canada.
Montaukett		USA	600
Montenegrins	Slavic	Montenegro	343,000
Moor			people living mainly in Western Sahara, Morocco and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, from which the latter country derives its name.
Moravians		Czech Republic Slovakia	525,000	people living in the Moravia region of Czech Republic, not to be confused with the Moravian diaspora, a global Christian religious community of the Moravian Church.
Moriori		New Zealand		indigenous ethnic-group of the Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
Morisco			Spanish Muslims who converted to Christianity.
Morlachs			Nearly extinct Latin-based ethnocultural group of Croatia.
Moro people		Philippines	9,800,000	the largest and most dominant non-Christian minority in the Philippines.
Mossi		Burkina Faso Côte d'Ivoire Ghana	7,500,000	an ethnicgroup in Burkina Faso.
Motuan		Papua New Guinea		an ethnic minority in Papua New Guinea.
Muckleshoot		USA	3,300	Indians – Native Americans.
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		China	207,000
Mulatto			Blacks with mixed European and African ancestry, but the terminology "Mulatto" has become considered racially charged in the USA.
Mundas		India	9,000,000
Mundurucu		Brazil	11,630	An ethnic minority in Brazil.
Muong		Vietnam	1,268,963
Mursi		Ethiopia	7,500
Museu
Myene		Gabon
Naga		India Burma	2,000,000	(see List of Naga tribes) – an ethnic group in India and Burma.
Nahanni
Nahua		Mexico	3,500,000	Native Mexicans. Largest native ethnics in Mexico. They speak Nahuatl, the largest native American language in North America. The Nahuas are also the largest united natives in North America.
Namaqua		South Africa Namibia Botswana	100,000
Nanais	Tungusic	Russia China	18,000
Nansemond		USA	200
Narragansett		USA	2,400	native Americans of New England.
Nasia			an ethnic minority group in New Guinea.
Natchez		USA Mexico	6,000	An ethnic minority in Mexico.
Nauruan		Nauru	6,000	Micronesian group of islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Navajo		USA	300,000	Native Americans of the southwest USA. Mostly situated in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. Largest Native American tribal nation in the USA.
Naxi		China	300,000
Ndau		Mozambique
Ndebele		South Africa Zimbabwe	700,000	an ethnic group of southern Africa (a Nguni people).
Negidals		Russia	550
Negrito			Umbrella term of many minority groups of the Maritime Southeast Asia.
Nenets	Samoyedic	Russia	45,000
Nespelem		USA		alternate spelling Nespelim or Nespilim; Salish Native Americans of eastern Washington State.
Nevisian of the island of Saint Nevis		Saint Kitts and Nevis	12,000
Newar	Tibeto-Burman	Nepal	1,320,000	Indigenous people of Kathmandu.
Nez Percé		USA	3,500	Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area.
Ngasan				An ethnic minority in Russia.
Ngae
Ngái		Vietnam	1,000
Nganasans	Samoyedic	Russia	1,000
Nhahuen
Nhuon
Niominka		Senegal	10,000
Nipmuc		USA	1,400
Nishka		Canada
Nisqually		USA	588
Nisei				see Japanese American along with Sansei.
Nisse
Nivkh		Russia	5,800	An ethnic minority in Russia.
Niuean – Polynesian		Niue	1,400	island in the Pacific Ocean.
Ni-Vanuatu		Vanuatu	245,000	of Vanuatu, an island chain in the Pacific Ocean.
Njem		Cameroon	7,000	people of southern Cameroon.
Nogais	Turkic	Russia (Dagestan) Romania	128,000
Nomlaki		USA	332
Nooksack		USA	1,800	Native Americans of Washington.
Northumbrians
Norwegians	Germanic	Norway Sweden USA Canada	10,000,000
Nu		China	27,000
N/u or Khomani
Nuba		Sudan	1,000,000	an ethnic minority group in Sudan.
Nubians		Sudan Egypt	1,700,000	an African people native to the upper Nile Valley, between Egypt and Sudan.
Nuer		South Sudan		southern Sudan and western Ethiopia.
Nukak		Colombia	550	an ethnic minority in Colombia.
Nung		Vietnam	968,000
Nuristani	Nuristani	Afghanistan	300,000	an ethnic group found mostly in Nuristan, Laghman and Kunar provinces of Afghanistan and some western valleys of adjacent Chitral district of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan
Nuu-chah-nulth		Canada	9,323	Native Americans of the Pacific northwest of North America.
Nyagatom				ethnic minority in Ethiopia.
Nzema		Ghana Côte d'Ivoire	500,000	People living in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.
O Du		Vietnam	570
Occitania			Occitan Language speaking peoples in Southern France.
Odawa		USA Canada	15,000
Ogaden
Oglala		USA	46,855	Native Americans of the central USA.
Ogoni		Nigeria	850,000
Ojibwa		USA Canada	220,000	Native Americans of Canada and the northern USA.
Okamba
Okande
Okies				A transplanted sociocultural group from Oklahoma and the Great Plains states to California and the US West Coast.
Okinawans		Japan
Omaha		USA	6,000
Omagua				An ethnic minority in Brazil.
Oneida		USA	45,000
Onondaga		USA	5,000
O'Odham				see Tohono O'Odham.
Oroch		Russia	1,000
Orokaiva		Papua New Guinea		an ethnic minority group in Papua.
Oroks		Russia	360
Oromo		Ethiopia, Kenya	34,000,000	in East Africa.
Oroqen		China	8,000
Oroshoris
Osage Nation		USA	16,000	of Oklahoma.
Ossetians	Iranian	Russia (North Ossetia-Alania) South Ossetia Georgia	720,000
Otavaleño		Ecuador		an ethnic minority in Ecuador.
Otoe-Missouria		USA	2,554
Ottawa			Native Americans.
Ovambo		Namibia	1,500,000
Pa Then		Vietnam	6,811
Pacoh
Paiute		USA	6,300	Native Americans of the Western USA.
Pākehā		New Zealand		New Zealanders of European ancestry.
Palestinian		Palestine Israel Jordan	11,000,000	Ethnic Arabs.
Palcene		Bulgaria Serbia	15,000
Paliyan		India
Pamunkey		USA	200
Panamanian
Pangasinan people		Philippines	1,500,000	A Filipino ethnic group.
Panoan
Pa-O		Burma	600,000	Burma.
Pashu		Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore	8,000,000	Descendants of Chinese people in South East Asia.
Pashtun	Iranian	Pakistan Afghanistan India	70,000,000	One of the largest ethnic groups of the world inhabiting in Afghanistan, Pakistan (with smaller communities in Iran, the United Arab Emirates, India and millions of ethnic Pashtuns live worldwide in diaspora.
Parsi		India	125,000 - 200,000	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		USA Canada
Pataxo		Brazil	2,790
Pattar			Belong to Vishwakarma community in India. Pattar actually means, 'Goldsmith'.
Pa-Thi		Burma		Burma.
Paugusset		USA	100
Pawnee		USA	3,240	Eastern USA Native American
Pennsylvania Dutch		USA		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		Brunei Malaysia	9,500	ethnic minority in Malaysia.
Pennsylvania German		USA		people of many religious affiliations whose families were formerly Pennsylvania Dutch. Called Pennsylvania Dutch by some.
Penobscot		USA	2,278	Eastern USA Native American.
Peoria
Papel		Senegal, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau
Perce				Native Americans.
Phong
Phu La		Vietnam	11,000
Phu Noi
Phu Thai		Thailand, Laos, Vietnam	870,000
Picardy				Picards.
Pied-noir				French people who live(d) in North Africa (primarily in Algeria when it was part of France before the war of independence, 1954–62).
Piegan		USA		Native Americans.
Pima		USA	20,000	Native Americans of the Southwest USA.
Pit River Indians		USA	1,800
Pitcairn-Norfolk, microcosm of English settlers on two islands in the South Pacific.
Pilaga		Argentina	4,000	An ethnic minority in Argentina.
Pokot people		Uganda Kenya	760,000
Polabian Slavs	Slavic
Polish	Slavic	Poland USA	60,000,000 - 70,000,000
Polynesians		New Zealand, USA, Australia	1,500,000	a.k.a. Pacific Islanders. Consists of various ethnic groups that speak Polynesian languages.
Pomaks	Slavic	Turkey Bulgaria Greece	500,000	Bulgarian-speaking Muslims
Pomo		USA	10,000	Western USA Native American. Most live in California.
Ponca		USA	6,700	Native Americans of the Great Plains (USA).
Ponhpeian		Micronesia		ethnic group at Pohnpei, part of the Federated States of Micronesia.
Pontic Greeks	Hellenic	Greece, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey	3,000,000	a population group in Greece and the southern coast of Black Sea.
Poospatuck
Portuguese	Romance	Portugal, Brazil	115,000,000	extreme southwest of Europe. Includes people with Portuguese ancestry.
Potawatomi		USA	28,000	Eastern USA Native American.
Potiguara		Brazil	12,000
Powhatan		USA		Eastern USA Native American.
Pu Peo
Pueblo people		USA		Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains-area and the desert Southwest USA.
Puelche		Chile		An ethnic minority in Argentina and Chile.
Puerto Ricans		USA Puerto Rico	8,500,000
Puget Sound Salish			of Washington.
Purépecha		USA Mexico	175,000	Native Americans living in western Mexico.
Punan		Malaysia	5,000
Pumi		China	30,000
Punjabis	Indo-Aryan	Pakistan India Canada UK	120,000,000	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.
Puyallup		USA	4,000
Qashqai	Turkic	Iran	1,000,000
Q'eros
Qiang		China	200,000
Quahatika
Quapaw		USA	3,240	Native Americans of the Southern Plains (USA)
Quechan		USA	1,200
Québécois		Canada	9,721,365	French Canadian
Quechuas		Peru Bolivia Ecuador	11,000,000	South American people (various ethnic groups speaking Quechua) of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, and Chile
Quiché (K'iche')		Guatemala	1,270,000
Quileute		USA	2,000
Quinault		USA
Quinqui		Spain		semi-nomadic group of Spain
Ra Glai		Vietnam	122,245
Rais
Rajasthani		India	13,000,000+	Ethnic group from Rajasthan - Western part of India.
Rakhine		Burma	3,361,000	Rakhine State, Burma
Rakuba			an ethnic minority group in Chad
Ramapough Mountain Indians		USA	2,654
Rappahannock		USA	500	of the mid-Atlantic region of the USA
Rashaida		Eritrea, Sudan	270,000	minority group in Sudan, closely related to the Bedouin
Rehoboth Baster people of Namibia in southern Africa
Ripuarian people of the tri-national area of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany
Ro Mam		Vietnam	436
Rohingya		Burma, Bangladesh, Pakistan	3,000,000	Muslim minority group in North western Burma
Romani		Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Hungary	2,000,000 - 12,000,000	An ethnic group consisting of Roma and Kale.
Romanians	Romance	Romania Italy Spain	23,623,890
Roshanis
Rotuman		Fiji	10,000	Native of Rotuma, Fiji
Russians	Slavic	Russia Ukraine Kazakhstan	133,000,000 - 150,000,000
Rusyns		USA, Slovakia, Serbia, Poland, Ukraine, Hungary	1,200,000
Ruthenians
Rutuls		Russia	35,000	Dagestani
Ryukyuans			the native inhabitants of the Ryukyus, a chain of islands starting about 200 km (124 mi) southwest of the Japanese mainland Northern Ryukyuans Amamians Okinawans Southern Ryukyuans Miyakoans Yaeyamans Yonagunians
Saarlanders of Saarland, Germany and adjacent part of France		Germany	1,000,000
Sadang
Saek		Laos, Thailand
Saho		Eritrea, Ethiopia	213,000	northern Ethiopia
Saingolo
Salar		China	104,000
Salish		USA, Canada		of Washington and British Columbia.
Samanthan		India
Samaritan		Israel, Palestine	800
Samegrelo
Sami		Norway, USA, Sweden, Finland, Russia	163,000	Nordic (Norwegian, Finnic and Swedish) people, thought to be among the oldest ethnic groups in Europe.
Sammarinese		San Marino	32,000	People of San Marino
Samoans		Samoa, USA, New Zealand	550,000	Polynesian island chain in the Pacific Ocean, also the largest group of Polynesians. Many Samoans live in the Mainland US and Hawaii (see Samoan American).
Samogitians		Lithuania	500,000	Baltic people in western part of Lithuania, northeastern Europe.
Samojeeds		Russia		Ethnic minority in Russia.
Samtao
Samburu		Kenya		an ethnic minority group in Kenya.
San		Botswana		an ethnic minority group in Botswana.
San Chay
San Diu
Sanema				ethnic minority in South America.
Santal
Santee Sioux				native Americans of the Great Plains (USA).
Saponi				Native American people of North Carolina – related to the Catawba.
Sara
Saraikis		Pakistan (mainly in Punjab), India (mainly in Punjab and Rajasthan)	25,000,000 - 39,000,000	Found mainly in Punjab, Pakistan. Most Saraiki Hindus also moved to Gujarat and Rajasthan in India after partition
Saramaka		Suriname		ethnic minority in Suriname.
Sarakatsani			a Greek population of transhumant shepherds in Greece and other parts of the southern Balkans.
Sauk				Native Americans of the Midwest/Great Plains (USA).
Sauk-Suiattle
Savoyard dialect of Savoyards of Savoy in southeastern France
Scottish	Celtic	UK (Scotland) USA Canada Australia	28,000,000 - 40,000,000	Ethnic group native to Scotland. Includes people with Scottish ancestry.
Sekani
Selk'nam
Selkups	Samoyedic	Russia	3,649
Semai
Seminole				Native Americans of Florida
Sena
Seneca			Native Americans of the New York area
Senegalese people of Senegal and the Gambia
Sentinelese
Sephardic Jews	Semitic	Israel France USA	2,200,000
Serbs	Slavic	Serbia Bosnia and Herzegovina (Republika Srpska)	10,500,000 - 12,000,000
Serer
Serer-Ndut
Seychellois Creole people
Seychellois people				Ethnic minority in Europe.
Shan		Burma, China, Thailand	6,000,000
Shangaan
Shasta
Shavante				An ethnic minority in Brazil
Shawnee				related peoples to the Algonkian, Delaware (Leni-Lenape) and Iroquois peoples
She
Sherpa			group in Nepal and the Himalaya
Shinnecock
Shipibo				An ethnic minority in Peru
Shoalwater Bay Tribe
Shona		Zimbabwe, Mozambique	14,000,000	ethnic group from Zimbabwe and Mozambique
Shors	Turkic	Russia (Kemerovo Oblast)	12,888
Shoshone				Native Americans of the Great Basin (USA)
Shughnis
Shui
Si La
Sidamo				southern Ethiopia
Siddi
Siksika
Silesians				inhabitants of Silesia of either Polish- and German-speaking origins of Poland
Siletz
Sindhis		Pakistan (mainly in Sindh), India (mainly in Gujarat and Rajasthan)	25,000,000 - 39,000,000	Found mainly in Sindh, Pakistan. Most Sindhi Hindus also moved to Gujarat and Rajasthan in India after partition
Singmun
Sinhalese or Sinhalas		Sri Lanka	15,000,000	inhabitants of Sri Lanka
Sinti			one of the two main groups of Gypsies, who are of North Indian/Indo-Aryan descent
Sioux		United States (SD, MN, NE, MT, ND), Canada (MB, SK, AB)	170,110	Northern Central USA
Siuslaw
Skagit				Native Americans
S'Klallam
Skokomish
Sḵwxwú7mesh
Slavs
Slovaks	Slavic	Slovakia	6,000,000	Slavic people of central Europe
Slovenes	Slavic	Slovenia	2,000,000 - 2,500,000	Slavic people of central and southeastern Europe
Sokci
Somali		Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Yemen, Djibouti	16,000,000 - 19,000,000	in Greater Somalia and the Somali diaspora
Somba
Songhai			msinly in Mali (closely related to the Zarma and Dendi)
Soninke			a group in Senegal, Mali, and Mauritainia (a Mande people)
Sorbs	Slavic	Germany
Souei
Southern Tutchone
Spaniards	Romance	Spain Diaspora: Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Cuba	134,000,000 - 141,000,000	A loosely defined ethno-linguistic group based in southwestern Europe, consisting of the inhabitants of Iberia and their descendants of Latin America. However, within Spain there are a number of different nationalisms and regionalisms, although they are often grouped as a single ethnicity due to their shared culture.
Spokane				native tribe of the Pacific Northwest (USA)
Squaxin Island Tribe
Sri Lankan Moors				People of mixed Arab descent in Sri Lanka
Stillaguamish
Sundanese		Indonesia	40,000,000+	western part of Java, Indonesia
Sudanese people
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	Kartvelian	Georgia	14,000 -30,000
Aramean-Syriacs
Swahili people		Tanzania, Kenya, Mozambique, Comoros	1,328,000	ethnic minority in Kenia and Tanzania
Swazi		Swaziland, South Africa	2,482,046	Largest ethnic group of Swaziland, also significant population in South Africa (a Nguni people)
Swedes	Germanic	Sweden Finland	13,250,000
Swinomish
Syrian Christians or Saint Thomas Christians		India	6,000,000	one of the ancient Christian community from India. Syrian Christians or Saint Thomas Christians are a high caste in the Indian social order. There is a common belief that Saint Thomas Christians were Brahmins converted to Christianity by Saint Thomas in the 1st century
Swiss Romansh
Sylheti				India (Barak Valley, Tripura), Bangladesh
T'boli			people at Philippines in Mindanao
Ta Oi
Tabasarans			Dagestan
Taché
Tachi
Tagalogs		Philippines	22,000,000	The second largest Filipino ethnic group
Tagish
Taíno			natives of the Caribbean
Taiwanese aborigines
Tajiks	Iranian	Afghanistan Tajikistan Uzbekistan	20,000,000 - 23,000,000
Taliang
Talysh	Iranian	Iran Azerbaijan	500,000
Tamang			group in Nepal and the Himalaya
Tamil		India Sri Lanka Malaysia	77,000,000	Dravidian group widespread in Southern India and parts of Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa and a global diaspora
Tamil Indians in Sri Lanka
Tanna			An ethnic minority in Vanuatu
Tanana
Taos Pueblo Indians of New Mexico
Tapajo				An ethnic minority in Brazil
Tapirapé				An ethnic minority in Brazil
Tapuia
Tarahumara			Native Americans of the Mexican state of Chihuahua
Tarascan
Tasaday			an ethnic minority in the Philippines
Tatars	Turkic	Russia (Tatarstan)	6,800,000
Tats	Iranian	Azerbaijan Russia (Dagestan)	10,900 - 22,041
Tay
Teda				an ethnic minority group in Chad
Tehuelche				An ethnic minority in Argentina
Teimani Jewish Jews of Yemenite extraction
Tejano				Latino immigrants to Texas though they may be its' original Spanish/Amerindian inhabitants
Telefolmin				an ethnic minority group in Papua
Telugu		India	80,000,000
Terena
Tetons (Lakota people)				Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area
Tewa
Thai		Thailand	50,000,000	majority ethnic group of Thailand
Thakali				minority ethnic group of Nepal
Tharu
Thin
Thổ
Tibetans	Tibeto-Burman	China (Tibet Autonomous Region, various Tibetan regions, Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan and Gansu provinces), India	6,500,000	majority ethnic group of the Tibetan Autonomous Region (China), Ladakh (India), Baltistan (Pakistan), northern Bhutan, parts of Nepal and historically Sikkim
Ticuna
Tigray-Tigrinya		Ethiopia, Eritrea	9,339,400	in Ethiopia, Eritrea
Tigre people		Eritrea, Sudan
Tigua
Tindis
Tipra
Tlakluit
Tlingit			Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest
Toala			an ethnic minority in Indonesia
Toba			an ethnic minority in Argentina
Tofalars	Turkic	Russia	761
Tohono O'odham			Native Americans of Arizona, USA and Sonora, Mexico
Tokelauan – Polynesian island chain in the Pacific Ocean
Tolowa
Tolais			ethnic minority in Papua New Guinea (New Britain)
Toltec			Central America: Meso-American civilization of Mexico
Tonga			East Africa
Tongans			a Polynesian ethnic group
Tongva
Tonkawa
Topachula
Toraja				Indigenous Peoples in Sulawesi, Indonesia
Torbesh	Slavic	Macedonia	40,000 - 100,000
Torres Strait Islanders				indigenous people of the Torres Strait Islands, Australia
Totonac
Toubou
Transylvanian Saxons				Germans of Romania
Trukhmens
Tsakhurs				Dagestan
Tsetsaut
Tsez				Also known as Dido.
Tsimishian				Pacific Northwest Native Americans
Tsonga				Southern Africa
Tsuu T'ina
Tswana people			ethnic minority in South Africa and Botswana (see also Batswana)
Tuareg	Berber	Niger Mali Algeria	1,200,000
Tujia		China	8,300,000
Tukano				An ethnic minority in Brazil
Tukolor
Tuamotu				Island group in French Polynesia; ethnically diverse from other French Polynesian islands
Tulalip
Tulutni
Tum
Tumbuka
Tungus
Tunica-Biloxi
Tupí people				- indigenous people of Brazil
Tupian peoples of Brazil			Bolivia and Paraguay
Tupinamba			An ethnic minority in Argentina
Turkmens	Turkic	Turkmenistan Iran Afghanistan	8,000,000
Turks	Turkic	Turkey Germany Bulgaria	70,000,000
Turkish Cypriots	Turkic	Northern Cyprus	1,100,000
Tusheti
Tutsi			from Rwanda, Burundi and southern Africa
Tuvaluans			a Polynesian ethnic group originated in Tuvalu
Tuvans	Turkic	Russia (Tuva)	280,000
Twa peoples
Txicao			An ethnic minority in Brazil
Tzigane
U'wa			Indigenous peoples in the northeast of Colombia
Udeghes
Udis
Ukrainian	Slavic	Ukraine Russia Canada	39,800,000 - 57,500,000
Ulchs
Ulster-Scots			descendants of Scots who migrated to Ulster, Northern Ireland
Ulta			An ethnic minority in Russia
Umatilla
Umpqua
Upper Skagit
Urapmin			a small tribe in Papua New Guinea
Uruguay
Ute			Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area
Uyghurs	Turkic	China (Xinjiang)	10,000,000
Uzbeks	Turkic	Uzbekistan Afghanistan Tajikistan	30,000,000
Vaccaei			ancient people group in Northern Spain
Valencians	Romance	Spain	Related to Catalan people, but are culturally distinct from Catalonians
Vaturanga			a people of the Guadalcanal
Venesuala			From the northern part of South America
Venda				South Africa
Veps
Visayan			The largest Filipino ethnic group
Vlachs	Romance		Latin/Romance-speaking peoples of the Balkans
Volga Germans			Mostly were deported by the Soviets or transported to Siberia during WWII
Votes
Wa
Wabanaki			native Americans
Waccamaw
Wailaki
Waitaha			pre-Māori people of Aotearoa (New Zealand)
Waiwai			An ethnic minority in Guyana
Waki			an ethnic minority in Pakistan and China
Wakhs
Walla Walla
Walsers				French/Swiss or German-Swiss settlers from the Valais Canton of Switzerland arrived in Austria and the former Austro-Hungarian empire during the 19th century (also known as the "Banat French", when they settled in the Banat region of Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia)
Wampanoag
Wasco
Washoe
Wayana				An ethnic minority in Guyana
Welayta people				people of southern Ethiopia
Welsh	Celtic	UK (Wales)	6,234,805
Wends				Slavic people from north-central Europe
White Mountain Apache of Arizona (USA)
Wichita
Wintu
Wintun
Wishram
Wiyot			northern California
Wolof				Senegal and elsewhere in western Africa
Wu Chinese				A subgroup of Han Chinese, concentrated in the Wu region and other parts of Jiangnan
Wyandot
Wyyanaha
Xakriabá		Brazil	6,000
Xavante		Brazil (Eastern Mato Grosso)	9,600
Xerente		Brazil	1,813
Xhosa		South Africa	7,900,000
Xibe		China (Xinjiang)	172,900
Xikrin		Brazil
Xin Uygurs		China (Xinjiang)
Xinh Mun		Vietnam, Laos	18,018
Xo Dang		Vietnam	127,148
Xtieng		Vietnam, Cambodia	6,059
Xucuru		Brazil (Pernambuco)	8,500
Xueda
Yaghan			An ethnic minority in Chile
Yaghnabis
Yagua			An ethnic minority in Peru
Yakama or Yakimas
Yakugir			An ethnic minority in Russia
Yakuts	Turkic	Russia (Sakha Republic)	478,700
Yang
Yankton Sioux			Native Americans
Yanomami			the Amazon River basin, Brazil
Yao		Thailand, China	2,900,000
Yavapai: Yavapai-Apache Nation, Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe
Yapese			Ethnic group at Yap Island, part of the Federated States of Micronesia.
Yaqui			Native Americans
Yawanawa
Yawalpiti			Native Americans
Yazgulamis
Yekuana			An ethnic minority in Venezuela
Yi		China	8,700,000
Yocha-Dehe
Yokut
Yoruba		Nigeria, Benin	40,000,000	an ethnic group in Nigeria, Benin and Togo
Yörüks	Turkic	Turkey Macedonia	?	semi-nomadic subgroup of Turkish people living in the Balkans and Anatolia
Yuchi
Yugur
Yukaghirs
Yuki			– Native Americans of northwestern California (USA)
Yuma			Native Americans of southeastern California and southern Arizona (USA)
Yumbri
Yupik
Yurok			Native Americans of Southern Oregon and Northern California (USA)
Yu people			Thought to be in moribund status, extinct language but cultural distinction present among the "Yu family" in Central China
Zaghawa		Chad (eastern) and Sudan (western)	75,000-350,000
Zambo		Latin America	800,000	Mixed people of African and Native American descent.
Latino Zamboangueño		Philippines (Zamboanga Peninsula)
Zapotec		Mexico	1,100,000	Native Mexicans living in southern Mexico.
Zarma		Niger (western)
Zazas	Iranian	Turkey	1,000,000 - 2,000,000
Zhuang		China (Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region)	18,000,000
Zou		India
Zulian		Venezuela (Zulia)	4,000,000
Zulu	Niger-Congo	South Africa	10,600,000
Zuni		USA	12,000	Native American Lorma People Liberia 14,000

Related lists by status

• List of indigenous peoples
• List of stateless ethnic groups
• Uncontacted peoples

See also

• Ethnic flag
• Human
• List of language families
• Lists of people by nationality
• Lists of active separatist movements
• Race (classification of humans)
• Y-chromosome haplogroups by populations

References

• Levinson, David (1998), Ethnic Groups Worldwide: A Ready Reference Handbook, Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 978-1-57356-019-1