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The following is a list of lists of ethnic group
Ethnic group

An ethnic group is a group of humans whose members identify with each other, through a common heritage that is real or presumed.Ethnic identity is further marked by the recognition from others of a group's distinctiveness and the recognition of common culture, linguistic, religion, human behaviour or Race traits, real or presumed, as indic...
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The following is a list of lists of ethnic group
Ethnic group

An ethnic group is a group of humans whose members identify with each other, through a common heritage that is real or presumed.Ethnic identity is further marked by the recognition from others of a group's distinctiveness and the recognition of common culture, linguistic, religion, human behaviour or Race traits, real or presumed, as indic...
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By region

  • Africa
    • North Africa
    • Horn of Africa
      Horn of Africa

      The Horn of Africa is a peninsula in East Africa that juts for hundreds of kilometers into the Arabian Sea, and lies along the southern side of the Gulf of Aden....
    • Sub-Saharan Africa
      Sub-Saharan Africa

      Sub-Saharan Africa is a geographical term used to describe the area of the African continent which lies south of the Sahara, or those African countries which are fully or partially located south of the Sahara....


  • Americas (indigenous)
    Indigenous peoples of the Americas

    The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples....
    • Mesoamerica
      • Maya peoples
    • North America
      • USA
        Native Americans in the United States

        Native Americans in the United States are the Indigenous peoples of the Americas from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States United States, including parts of Alaska and the island state of Hawaii....
        • Alaska
          Alaska Natives

          Alaska Natives are the indigenous peoples of Alaska. They include: Inupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Eyak, and a number of Northern Athabaskan cultures....
      • Canada
        Aboriginal peoples in Canada

        Aboriginal people in Canada, also known as First Nations, Inuit and M?tis, are people who belong to recognized indigenous groups in the Canada Constitution Act, 1982, Section Twenty-five of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and Section Thirty-five of the Constitution Act, 1982, respectively as First Nations, M?tis people , and...
    • South America
      • Brazil


  • Asia
    • Central Asia
      • Afghanistan
    • East Asia
      • China (historical
        Ethnic groups in Chinese history

        The following are the ethnic groups in Chinese history. Any non clear-cut connection is denoted by a question mark beside the equivalences. As so many ethnic groups have appeared in history, this table is certainly not complete....
        )
    • Northern Asia
      • Russia (indigenous)
        List of indigenous peoples of Russia

        The list of indigenous peoples of Russia consists of the following sublists:*List of small-numbered indigenous peoples of Russia, as defined by the Russian law....
         (transcontinental)
        • Siberia
          Indigenous peoples of Siberia

          Including the Russian Far East, the population of Siberia numbers just above 40 million people.As a result of the 17th to 19th century History_of_Siberia#Imperial_Russian_expansion and the subsequent Forced settlements in the Soviet Union during the Soviet era, the demographics of Siberia today is dominated by native speakers of Russian language....
    • South Asia
      Ethnic groups of South Asia

      The ethno-linguistic composition of the population of South Asia, that is the nations of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives and Sri Lanka, as well as sometimes Afghanistan, is highly diverse....
      • Bangladesh
        Ethnic groups in Bangladesh

        Ethnic groups in BangladeshThis article is about the demographics features Ethnic group, their population, religion, customs, cultures etc....
      • Bhutan
      • India
      • Maldives
      • Nepal
      • Pakistan
        Ethnic groups in Pakistan

        About 99% of languages spoken in Pakistan are Indo-Iranian languages , a branch of Indo-European languages family of languages. Most languages of Pakistan are written in the Perso-Arabic script, with significant vocabulary derived from Arabic and Persian language....
      • Sri Lanka
    • Southeast Asia
      Ethnic groups of Southeast Asia

      Tai peoples*Thai people*Lao people*Kadai peoples*Kam-Sui peoples*Saek*Nung people*Nyaw*Lu people*Kongsat*White Thai*Shan...
      • Brunei
      • Cambodia
        List of ethnic groups in Cambodia

        Cambodia, in contrast to its Southeast Asian neighbors, has a fairly homogeneous population. Ninety percent of its 14 million people are ethnic Khmer people....
      • Indonesia
        Ethnic groups in Indonesia

        Ethnic groups in IndonesiaThere are over 300 ethnic groups in Indonesia.Many ethnic groups, particularly in Kalimantan and Papua , have only hundreds of members....
      • Laos
        List of ethnic groups in Laos

        The following is a list of ethnic groups within Laos....
      • Malaysia
      • Philippines
      • Vietnam
        List of ethnic groups in Vietnam

        Vietnam is a multi-ethnic country with over fifty distinct groups , each with its own language, lifestyle, and cultural heritage. Many of the local ethnic groups are known collectively in the West as Montagnard or Degar....
    • Southwest Asia
      Ethnic groups of the Middle East

      The ethnic groups in West Asia fall into several categories:*The Middle East proper is dominated by Arabs. There are various other ethnic groups, mostly Iranian peoples and Turkic peoples , Assyrians and Jews ....
      • Iran (minorities)
        Ethnic minorities in Iran

        This article focuses on ethnic minorities in Iran and their related political issues....
      • Iraq
      • Israel
      • Lebanon
      • Syria
    • Caucasus (transcontinental)
      • Armenia


  • Europe
    • Caucasus (transcontinental)
    • Russia (indigenous)
      List of indigenous peoples of Russia

      The list of indigenous peoples of Russia consists of the following sublists:*List of small-numbered indigenous peoples of Russia, as defined by the Russian law....
       (transcontinental)
    • Turkey (transcontinental)
    • United Kingdom


  • Oceania
    • Pacific Islanders
      • Hawaiians
        Native Hawaiians

        Native Hawaiians refers to the indigenous Polynesian people of the Hawaiian Islands or their descendants. Native Hawaiians trace their ancestry back to the first Marquesas Islands and Tahitian settlers of Hawaii , before the arrival of British explorer Captain James Cook in 1778....
    • Australia (indigenous)
      List of Indigenous Australian group names

      This List of Indigenous Australian group names contains names and collective designations which have been applied, either formerly or in the past, to group of Indigenous Australians....


By linguistic phylum

  • Altaic speaking people
    Altaic languages

    Altaic is a disputed language family that is generally held by its proponents to include the Turkic languages, Mongolic languages, Tungusic languages, Korean language, and Japonic languages language families ....
    • Mongols
      Mongols

      The name Mongol specifies one or several ethnic groups, now mainly located in Mongolia, China, and Russia....
    • Tungusic peoples
      Tungusic peoples

      The term Tungusic peoples is used to describe peoples speaking a Tungusic languages....
    • Turkic peoples
      Turkic peoples

      The Turkic peoples are Eurasian peoples residing in northern, central and western Eurasia, and who mostly speak languages belonging to the Turkic languages....
  • Afro-Asiatic
    • Semitic
    • Berber peoples
  • Austronesian peoples
  • Dravidian peoples
    Dravidian peoples

    Dravidian people also Dravidians refers to the peoples that natively speak languages belonging to the Dravidian languages. Populations of speakers are found mostly in South India....
  • Niger-Congo
    • Bantu peoples
      • Bantu speaking peoples of South Africa
  • Indo-Europeans
    • Germanic
      List of Germanic peoples

      This is a list of Germanic peoples....
    • Slavic peoples
      Slavic peoples

      The Slavic Peoples are a linguistic branch of Indo-European peoples, living mainly in eastern Europe. From the early 6th century they spread from their original homeland to inhabit most of eastern Central Europe, Eastern Europe and the Balkans....
    • Iranian peoples
      Iranian peoples

      The Iranian peoples are an ethnic and linguistic branch of Indo-European peoples, living mainly in Iranian plateau and beyond in central-, southern-, and southwestern Asia and southeastern Europe....
    • Indo-Aryans
      Indo-Aryans

      Indo-Aryan is an ethno-linguistic term referring to the wide collection of peoples united as native speakers of the Indo-Iranian languages of the family of Indo-European languages....
    • Latin European peoples
  • Tai peoples
    Tai peoples

    "Thai peoples" redirects here. For the subgroup of the Tai, see Thai peopleThe 'Tai' ethnicity refers collectively to the ethnic groups of southern China and Southeast Asia, stretching from Hainan to eastern India and from southern Sichuan to Laos, Thailand, and parts of Vietnam, which speak languages in the Tai languages family and share s...
  • Uralic
    • Finno-Ugric peoples
      Finno-Ugric peoples

      The Finno-Ugric peoples is a historic linguistic group of peoples in Europe who speak Finno-Ugric languages, such as the Finnic peoples and the Ugric peoples ....
      • Finnic peoples
        Finnic peoples

        Finnic peoples are a historical linguistics group of peoples that speak Finnic languages: Baltic Finns, who live near the Baltic Sea, Volga Finns, who live near the Volga River, the Permians, who live in north-central Russia....
      • Ugric peoples
        Ugric peoples

        The term Ugric people is used to describe peoples speaking a Ugric languages. Ugric is a linguistic concept, not an ethnic or cultural one. Nationalist ideologies in Hungary have been hostile to the idea of Ugric, as they envision kinship with more "prestigious" peoples such as the Turks, Mongols, and Sumerians, and the discovery of the Finno...
    • Samoyedic peoples
      Samoyedic peoples

      The term Samoyedic peoples is used to describe peoples speaking Samoyedic languages, which are part of the Uralic languages family. They are a linguistic grouping, not an ethnic or cultural one....


By status

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

    This is a selected list of the world's indigenous peoples. For guidelines on what should be included or excluded in this listing, see this article's Talk:List of indigenous peoples....
  • Uncontacted peoples
    Uncontacted peoples

    Uncontacted peoples are peoples who, either by choice or chance, live, or have lived, without significant contact with the 'modern' civilizations of the world....


See also

  • List of indigenous peoples
    List of indigenous peoples

    This is a selected list of the world's indigenous peoples. For guidelines on what should be included or excluded in this listing, see this article's Talk:List of indigenous peoples....
  • List of people by nationality
    List of people by nationality

    There are a variety of articles listing people of a particular nationality. People on these lists should be notable in some way and should ideally have articles of their own....
  • List of active autonomist and secessionist movements
    List of active autonomist and secessionist movements

    This is a list of currently active Autonomous entity and secessionist movements around the world.Entries on this list meet two criteria: they are active movements with living, active members, and they are seeking greater autonomy or self-determination for a geographic region ....
  • Y-DNA haplogroups by ethnic groups
    Y-DNA haplogroups by ethnic groups

    Listed here are notable ethnic groups by Y-DNA haplogroups based on relevant studies. The data is presented in two colums for each haplogroup with the first being the sample size and the second the percentage in the haplogroup designated by the column header....