Wikipedia: List of ethnic groups

List of ethnic groups
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This is a list of names of ethnic groupss. A group can have several names (e.g., names in English language and in native language, obsolete names, versions of spelling, etc.)

A

Abenaki - Native Americans once widespread in eastern North America
Abkhaz - Minority in Georgia, Turkey and Russia, Abkhazia
Acadian - French-Canadians of the Canadian Maritimes
Accohannock - Native Americans of Maryland
Achang - Yunnan, China
Achomawai - Native Americans of California
Acoma - Native Americans of the southwest United States and Mexico
Adja
Afar - Ethiopia
African-American - Descendants of African slaves brought to North America
Afrikaan - Dutch-descended settlers of southern Africa
Agni
Ahtna - Native Alaskans, along the Copper River
Aimaks - Minority group in Afghanistan
Aimaq - Minority group in Afghanistan
Ainu - Natives of Japan and Sakhalin
Aja
Ak Chin
Akan
Akha
Alabama-Coushatta
Alak
Albanian - from the Balkans
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
Americo-Liberians - descendants of African slaves repatriated to Liberia
Amhara - Ethiopia
Amish - North American religious minority, of German descent
Amungme
Andorran - small nation between France and Spain
Anglo-Celtic Australian
Anglo-Indian
Anglo-Saxon
Apache - western plains Native American group of the United States
Apinaje
Arab - widespread throughout the Middle East and North Africa
Araucanian
Arapaho
Arawak - natives of the Caribbean
Arikara - natives of the Caribbean
Armenian - specific ethnic group in the Caucasus region, Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh
Aromanian (or Macedo-Romanians)
Aruban - Dutch-colonized island in the Caribbean
Asheninka
Assiniboine
Assyrian - Middle Eastern
Atikamekw
Atsina
Atsugewi
Australian aborigine - natives of Australia
Awá - an endangered Amazonian tribe of hunter-gatherers
Aymara
Azeri - Turkic people of the Caucasus, Azerbaijan
Aztec - Central American group, descendants widespread in Mexico

B

Ba Na

Baguirmi

Bai
Bajau - Sea Gypsies of Borneo, Malaysia; touch land only to bury their dead.
Baka
Bakongo
Baloch
Bambara
Bamileke
Banawa
Banda
Bandjabi
Bantu - ethnic group widespread in central Africa
Baoule
Bapou
Bariba
Basarwa
Bashkhir
Bashkort
Basotho
Basque - group unrelated to other known ethnicities, located in the Pyrenees between Spain and France
Bassa
Bassari
Bateke
Batswana - largest ethnic group in Botswana
Bavarian - region in Germany, northern Europe
Baya-Mandjia
Bedouin - nomadic group throughout North Africa and western Middle East
Belarussian - Slavic people of eastern Europe, Belarus
Bengal - South Asian, Bangladesh
Berber
Betammaribe
Bethio
Bhotia
Biafran - of Nigeria
Bit
Blackfeet
Bo Y
Bonan
Bosniak - Muslim Slavic people of southeastern Europe
Bouganvillean - island near Papua New Guinea
Brau
Breton - Celtic group in northwest France
Bru-Van Kieu - Vietnam
Brule
Bulang
Bulgars - Slavic people of the Balkans
Bulu-Beti
Buryat
Bushongo
Buyi

C

Caddo

Cahuila

Caingang

Cajun - French-Americans in Louisiana
Caprivian
Carib - of the Caribbean
Caripuna
Carrier
Catalonian - nation on eastern Spain and southeastern France
Catawba - Native Americans from the Carolina-region of the United States
Cayuga - Eastern North American Native Americans
Cayuse
Chehalis
Chemakum
Chemehuevi - Southwest US Native Americans
Cham
Chechnyan - large minority in Russia, northern Caucasus
Chepang
Chere
Cherokee - Eastern United States Native American
Cheyenne - western plains Native Americans of the United States
Chilcotin
Chickahominee
Chikasaw
Chinookan
Chipewyan
Chippewa Cree
Chitimacha
Choctaw - Eastern United States Native American
Cho Ro
Chukchansi
Chumash
Chut
Ciboney - Mesoamerican
Clayoquot
Co
Co Ho
Co Lao
Cochiti
Cocopah
Coeur d'Alene - Rocky Mountains-area Native American group
Commanche
Cong
Cornish - Celtic group in the southwest of England
Cham
Chicano
Cho Ro
Co Tu
Coast Salish - Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest
Coharie
Colville
Coquille
Corsican - island off the coast of France
Costanoan
Coushatta
Cowichan
Cowlitz
Cree
Creek
Créole
Croat - Slavic people of southeastern Europe
Crow
Cupeno
Czech - Slavic people of central Europe

D

Dagestani - Central Russia
Dai (Thai, Thai Lue)
Dakota
Damara
Dao
Daur
De'ang
Delaware - Eastern United States Native American
Dendi
Danish - Scandinavian country in northern Europe
Diegueno
Dinka
Diola
Dominican - from the Dominican Republic, Hispaniola
Dong
Dongxiang
Drung
Du
Dutch - Northern European, one of the Low Countries

E

E De

Enxet
Eritrean - formerly of Ethiopia, on the Red Sea
Eshira
Esselen
Estonian - Finno-Ugric people of northeastern Europe
Evenki

F

Fang - Western Africa
Farsi - Small minority of Zoroastrians in Iran and Afghanistan
Fijian - Polynesian group
Finnish - Ural-Altaic group in Scandinavia, west of Russia
Flemish - Minority in the Netherlands
Fon
French - western European
French Creole - of Haiti
French Canadian - of French Canadian culture (Quebec, Canada) historically self-identified as Canadiens, then later as Canadiens-français and today as Québécois.
Frisian - Germanic group on a few islands in the North Sea
Fula
Fulani
Fulbe
Fulfulde
Fulni-o

G

Gagauz
Gaoshan
Garifuna
Ge - northern South America, Caribbean coast
Gelao
Georgian - Caucasus region, of Georgia
German - northern European
Gia Rai
Giay
Gie Trieng
Gongduk
Gorani - Slavic people in Serbia
Goshute
Goulaye
Greek - southeastern Europe
Greenlander - island in the North Atlantic
Gros Ventre
Guajajara
Guarani
Gurage - Ethiopia
Gurung

H

H'Re

Ha-Nhi

Haida - Pacific Northwest Native Americans
Hakka
Haliwa-Sapponi
Han Chinese - dominant ethnic group of China
Hani
Havasupai
Haw
Hawaiian - native Polynesians of the island chain
Hazara
Hercegovinian - arguably regional group of Croats and Serbs in Herzegovina
Herero
Hesquiat
Hezhen
Hidatsa
Himba
Hmong - Southeast Asia
Ho-Chunk
Hoa
Houma
Hoh
Hohokam
Holikachuk
Hopi - Native American, of the southwest United States
Hui Chinese
Hungarian - Finno-Ugric people of central Europe
Hualapai - Natives of Mesoamerica
Hupa
Huastec
Huron - Eastern United States Native American
Hutu - Rwanda

I

Icelandic - North Atlantic island
Illinois
Incan - Of western South America, along the Andes and particularly Peru
Ingalik - Natives of Alaska
Innu - Native Americans of eastern Canada
Inuit - Widespread in Alaska and northern Canada
Iowa
Irish - Island west of Britain, Celtic
Iroquois - Native Americans once widespread in the eastern United States and Canada
Isleta - Natives from New Mexico
Isoko
Istro-Romanian - Istria
Italian - from the Apennine peninsula in the south of Europe

J

Jamaican - mixture of African slaves, Central American natives and English settlers, Caribbean
Japanese - islands off the east coast of Asia
Javanese - island in Indonesia
Jemez
Jewish - widespread religion and nation, also concentrated in Israel
Jing
Jingpo
Jino
Jivaroan
Jola
Jopadhola
Jri

K

Kalispel

Karaja

Karen - southeast Asia
Karok
Kashub - northern Europe
Katang
Kato
Katu
Katuquina
Kavango
Kaw
Kaxinawa
Kazakh - Turkic/Mongol people of central Asia
Keresan
Khang
Khmer - southeast Asia, Cambodia
Khmu
Kho Mu
Khoikhoi - Southern Africa
Kickapoo
Kinh
Kiowa - Native Americans of the Great Plains of the United States
Kirghiz - Turkic people of central Asia
Klallam
Klamath - Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest
Klikitat
Kolchan
Kootenai
Korean - from a peninsula in Asia, south of Manchuria (China) and across the sea from Japan
Koskimo
Koyukon - Natives of Alaska
Kpelle - Group from Guinea, western Africa
Kraho - Natives of northwestern Brazil
Kri - Group from Sierra Leone, western Africa
Kui
Kumeyaay-Digueno
Kurd - large minority in Turkey, Iraq, Iran
Kutenai
Kwakiutl - of the Washington/British Columbia area

L

La Chi

La Ha

La Hu

Laguna
Lahu
Lakota - Native Americans of the Great Plains of the United States and Canada
Lamet
Lao Sung
Lao Theung
Laotian - southeast Asia
Latino - Mixed native South or Central American, Spanish or Portuguese and African
Latvian - Baltic people of northeastern Europe
Lavae
Laven
Lavi
Lebou
Lenca
Lhoba
Li Chinese
Limbus
Lippovans - Danube Delta, Romania
Lisu
Lithuanian - Baltic people of northeastern Europe
Lo Lo
Lotuko
Low Saxon - Northern Germany
Lu
Lue
Luiseno
Lumbee
Lummi

M

M'Baka

Ma
Macedonian Slavs - Slavic people of southeastern Europe
Macuxi
Madurese
Magar
Maidu
Makah
Makua
Makong
Malabo
Malay - dominant ethnic group in south-east Asia specifically Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and the Philippines.
Maliseet
Maltese - syncretist group in the Mediterranean
Mam - a Maya people of Guatemala
Manchu - Manchuria, now part of China, north of Korea
Mandan
Mang
Manx - Celts of the Isle of Man
Maonan
Maricopa
Maori - natives of New Zealand
Mashantucket Pequots - Native Americans of New England
Mattaponi
Maubere
Maya - natives of Central America, widespread
Me-Wuk
Megleno-Romanians - in Greece
Meherrin
Menba
Menominee - Eastern United States Native American
Métis
Miami
Miao
Miccosukee - Eastern United States Native American
Mi'kmaq - Eastern United States and Atlantic Canada Native American
Mina
Mingo
Mission
Miwok
Mixtec - Central American natives
Mnong
Modoc
Mohave - Native Americans of the southwest United States
Mohawk - Eastern United States Native American
Mohican - Native Americans from New England
Moldovan - Romanians people of Moldova, eastern Europe
Mon - southeast Asia, particularly Thailand
Monacan - Native American ethnic group, not to be confused with a person from Monaco
Mongol - Central Asia, between Russia and China
Mono
Montaukett
Montenegrin - Slavic people of southeastern Europe
Moor - Descendants of Arab invaders of the Hispanic Pennisula
Muckleshoot
Mulam
Muong
Museu
Myene

N

Nahanni

Nama
Nansemond
Narragansett - natives of New England
Nauruan - Polynesian group of islands in the Pacific Ocean
Navajo - Native Americans of the southwest United States
Naxi
Ndau
Nepalese - south Asia, between India and China
Nespelim
Newars
Nez Perce - Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area
Ngae
Nhahuen
Nhuon
Ni-Vanuatu - of Vanuatu, an island chain in the Pacific Ocean
Niominka
Nipmuc
Nishka
Nisqually
Nomlaki
Nooksack - Native Americans of Washington
Nootka - Native American group in the northwestern United States
Nu
Nung

O

O Du
Oglala - Native Americans of the central United States
Oi
Ojibwa
Okamba
Okande
Olmec
Omaha
Oneida
Onondangua
Oromo - Ethiopia
Oroqin
Osage
Otoe-Missouria
Ottawa
Ovambo

P

Pa Then

Paiute
Pakoh
Palestinian - much-disputed ethnic group of the Middle East
Pamunkey
Panoan
Pashtun - large group in Afghanistan
Passamaquoddy
Patagonian - southern tip of South America, Argentina
Pataxo
Paugusset
Pawnee - Eastern United States Native American
Penobscot - Eastern United States Native American
Peoria
Persian - modern-day Iran
Phong
Phu La
Phu Noi
Phu Thai
Piegan
Pima
Pit River Indians
Pitcairn-Norfolk
Polish - Slavic people of central-northern Europe
Pomaks - in Greece
Pomo
Ponca
Poospatuck
Portuguese - extreme southwest of Europe
Potawatomi - Eastern United States Native American
Potiguara
Powhatan - Eastern United States Native American
Pu Peo
Pueblo people - Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains-area
Puelche
Puget Sound Salish - of Washington
Pumi
Puyallup

Q

Quahatika

Quapaw

Quechan
Qiang
Quiché
Quileute
Quinault

R

R.Berserker

Ra Glai

Rais

Ramapough Mountain Indians
Rappahannock - of the mid-Atlantic region of the United States
Ro Mam
Roma - one of the two groups more commonly known as Gypsies
Romanian - Eastern European
Russian - Slavic people of eastern Europe, originally of Moscow, Kiev area, now widespread through Siberia and the Urals to the Pacific Ocean
Ruthenes (also called Rusyns)