List of ethnic groups

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

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Name	Description and location	Larger ethnic group
Abenaki	Native Americans of Quebec, Vermont, New Hampshire, and possibly Maine.	Algonquin people
Acadian	Original French settlers of the Canadian Maritimes, including Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.	French-Canadians
Accohannock	Native Americans of the Chesapeake Bay's eastern shore	Powhatan

Abkhaz- Minority in Georgia, Turkeyand Russia, Abkhazia

Acadian - French-Canadians of the Canadian Maritimes
Accohannock - Native Americans of Maryland
Achang - Yunnan, China
Achomawi - Native Americans of California
Acoma - Native Americans of the southwest United States and Mexico
Adja - Minority in Benin
Adyghe - Minority in Russia, in the north Caucasus region.
Afar - Minority in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. Also known as Danakil
African-American - Descendants of African slaves brought to North America
Afrikaners - Descendents of Dutch settlers / French Huguenot refugees & German Protestants of southern Africa
Agni - minority group in Côte d'Ivoire
Aguls - Dagestani minority group
Ahtna - Native Alaskans, along the Copper River
Aimaks - Minority group in Afghanistan
Aimaq - Minority group in Afghanistan
Ainu - Natives of Hokkaido, much of Sakhalin, the Kuriles, and at one time northern Honshu, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Amur River basin
Aja - Minority group in Benin
Ak Chin - Native American group now resident in Pinal County, Arizona on the Tohono O'odham reservation
Akan - People of West Africa, inhabiting principally Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire and Togo
Akha
Alabama - Native American people from whom the state takes its name; now sharing a reservation in Texas with the Coushatta
Alak - from Laos
Albanians - Natives of the south-west Balkans, principally residing in Albania, Macedonia and Serbia and Montenegro.
Aleut - Natives of Alaska, and the Yukon, Nunavut and Northwest Territories
Algonquian - Native Americans of the eastern United States and Canada
Altaic peoples - Non-homogeneous peoples of the Altai Mountains region
American - Heterogeneous population of primarily English and Spanish speaking people with a similar culture living in the United States.
Americo-Liberians - Descendants of African slaves repatriated to Liberia
Amhara - Indigenous people of central Ethiopia
Amish - North American religious minority, of German descent
Amungme
Andorrans - Inhabitants of a small nation between France and Spain
Anglo-Celtic Australian - Inhabitants of Australia with British descent
Anglo-Indian - Offspring of mixed Indian and British parents resident in India
Anglo-Saxon - Often used to mean a person of English ancestry
Annamites - A people of Mongolian descent living in Vietnam.
Apaches - western plains Native American group of the United States
Apinaje
Arab - originally from Arabia, now widespread throughout the Middle East and North Africa
Aramean - Semitic people of the Middle East, chiefly resident in Syria
Arapaho - Native American people, formerly inhabiting Colorado and Wyoming, now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming
Araucanian - Non-homogenous peoples of South America, inhabiting Chile and western Argentina
Arawak - natives of the Caribbean
Arikara - Native American people from the upper Midwest
Armenians - natives of the Caucasus region, Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, with a large worldwide diaspora
Aromanians (or Macedo-Romanians) - a population living as a minority in Northern Greece, Serbia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Albania and Bulgaria
Arubans - Dutch-colonized island in the Caribbean
Asheninka
Assiniboine - Native American people living in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Montana; one of the Sioux peoples
Assyrians - Middle Eastern, principally in Syria
Atikamekw
Atsina - Native American people inhabiting Montana and formerly Saskatchewan
Atsugewi
Australian aborigine - generic name for native inhabitants of Australia
Avars - inhabitants of the Russian republic of Dagestan
Awá - an endangered Amazonian tribe of hunter-gatherers
Aymaras - South American people of Bolivia and Peru
Azeris - Turkic people of the Caucasus, Azerbaijan
Aztecs - Central American people, descendants widespread in Mexico

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B

Ba Na
Baggara or Baqqarah - Sudan
Baguirmi - inhabitants of Chad
Bai - national minority of China, inhabiting Yunnan province
Bajau - Sea Gypsies of Borneo; touch land only to bury their dead.
Baka - one of the Pygmy peoples of central Africa. See also Twa, Aka, Mbuti, Binga and Gelli Efé.
Bakongo - majority population of the Republic of the Congo; also living in Angola
Balkars - people of the northern Caucasus, mainly inhabiting the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria
Baloch (also Baluch) - traditionally nomadic Muslim people of Baluchistan
Bambara - group living chiefly in Mali and Guinea
Bamileke - majority inhabitants of Cameroon
Banawa
Banda - one of the peoples of the Central African Republic
Bandjabi
Bantu - ethnic group widespread in central and southern Africa
Baoule - major ethnic group in Côte d'Ivoire
Bapou
Bariba - national minority in Benin
Basarwa - ethnic minority in Botswana
Bashkhirs (or Bashkir) - people of east central Russia, inhabiting principally Bashkortostan
Basotho - inhabitants of Lesotho
Basques - group unrelated to other known ethnicities, located in the Pyrenees between Spain and France
Bassa - people of Liberia
Bassari
Baster (also known as Baaster) - people descended from the offspring of Dutch speaking whites and black African women
Bate Boiko
Bateke - minority group in the Republic of the Congo
Batswana - largest ethnic group in Botswana
Bavarians - inhabitant of the German state of Bavaria, with a distinctive dialect of High German
Baya-Mandjia
Bedouins - nomadic group throughout North Africa and western Middle East
Beja - nomadic group in northern Eritrea, southern Egypt, and northeastern Sudan
Belarusians - Slavic people of eastern Europe, Belarus
Bengalis - South Asian people, inhabiting Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal
Berbers - a North African people, living in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt
Betammaribe
Bethio
Bhotia - majority population of Bhutan, of Tibetan descent
Biafrans - inhabitant of eastern Nigerian region (see also Ibo)
Bit
Blackfeet (or Blackfoot) - group of Native American peoples of the Great Plains, comprising the Blackfoot, Blood, and Piegan tribes.
Bo Y
Bonan
Bosniak - Muslim Slavic people of southeastern Europe, inhabiting chiefly Bosnia and Serbia
Bouganvilleans - inhabitants of island near Papua New Guinea
Brau
Bretons - Celtic group in northwest France
Bru-Van Kieu - Vietnam
Brulé - Native American people inhabiting parts of Nebraska and South Dakota; one of the Sioux peoples
Bubi minority ethnic group in Equatorial Guinea Majority Ethnic group on the island of Bioko
Bulang
Bulgars - an ancient people of central Asia
Bulgarians - Slavic people of southeastern Europe
Bulu-Beti
Bunjevci - Slavic people of the Balkans
Buryats - people of the eastern Russian republic of Buryatia
Bushongo - inhabitants of the Congo region
Buyi - national minority of China

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C

Caddo - Native American peoples formerly residing in Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, now located in central Oklahoma.
Cahuilla
Caingang
Cajuns - French-Americans in Louisiana. See also Acadian.
Cape Coloured - mixed-race population of the Western Cape Province of South Africa
Cape Malay - Malay-descended population of the Western Cape Province of South Africa
Caprivian - inhabitants of the Caprivi Strip in northeastern Namibia
Caribs - group of Native American peoples of northern South America, the Lesser Antilles, and the east coast of Central America; now mostly extinct
Caripuna
Carrier - Native American people of Canada, one of the Athabaskan group of peoples
Catalans - inhabitants of north-eastern Spain and southwestern France
Catawba - Native Americans from the Carolina region of the United States, now resident in western South Carolina
Cayuga - Native American people of New York state, now resident in Wisconsin and Oklahoma; one of the Iroquois group of peoples
Cayuse - Native American people of northeast Oregon and southeast Washington
Cham - a people of Indonesian stock living in Cambodia and central Vietnam
Chechens - inhabitants of northern Caucasus, chiefly in Chechnya in Russia
Chehalis
Chemakum
Chemehuevi - Native American people of the southwest United States
Chepang
Chere
Cherokee - Native American people originally of Tennessee and North Carolina, now mostly living in Oklahoma
Cheyenne - Native American people of the Great Plains of the United States
Chicano - a United States citizen of Mexican origin
Chickahominee
Chickasaw - Native American people formerly of northeast Mississippi and northwest Alabama, now living in Oklahoma
Chilcotin - Native American inhabitants of British Columbia
Chinookan - members of a number of Native American peoples living in the Columbia River valley in Washington and Oregon
Chipewyan - Native American people of northwest Canada
Chippewa - Native American people inhabiting the Great Lakes region of Canada and also living in Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Montana
Chitimacha
Cho Ro
Choctaw - Native American people formerly of Mississippi and Alabama, now mostly living in Oklahoma
Chukchansi
Chumash - Group of Native American peoples inhabiting coastal southern California
Chut
Ciboney - Mesoamerican inhabitants of Cuba, now extinct
Clayoquot - Native American people of Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Co
Co Ho
Co Lao
Co Tu
Coast Salish - Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest
Cochiti - Native American people of the southwestern United States
Cocopah
Coeur d'Alene - Native American people of the Rocky Mountains
Coharie
Coloured - term used to denote mixed-race inhabitants of South Africa. See also Cape Coloured
Colville - Native American people inhabiting Washington; one of the Salish tribes
Comanche - Native American people inhabiting Oklahoma, Texas, California and New Mexico
Cong
Coquille
Cornish - Celtic group in the southwest of England
Corsicans - inhabitants of island off the south coast of France
Costanoan - Native American people of central California, one of the Mission Indian peoples
Coushatta - Native American now resident in Texas. See also Alabama
Cowichan - Native American inhabitants of Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Cowlitz - Native American people of western Washington; one of the Salish peoples
Cree - widely dispersed Native American people inhabiting the northern United States and Canada
Creek - Native American people originally of Alabama but now mostly residing in Oklahoma
Créole - referring either to people of Iberian or French ancestry in the Americas, or people of mixed Native American and European ancestry in Alaska
Croats - Slavic people of southeastern Europe
Crow - Native American people of the northern Great Plains, now chiefly residing in southeast Montana; one of the Sioux peoples
Cupeno
Czechs - Slavic people of central Europe

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D

Dagestani peoples - indigenous groups of northern Caucasus
Dai (Thai, Thai Lue)
Dakota
Damara
Dargins - Dagestani
Dao
Daur
De'ang
Delaware - Eastern United States Native American
Dendi
Danish - Germanic people of Scandinavia
Diegueno
Dinka
Diola
Dominican - from the Dominican Republic, Hispaniola
Dong
Dongxiang
Drung
Du
Dutch - Germanic people of northern Europe

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E

E De
English - Germanic group dwelling in the lowlands of Great Britain
Enxet
Eritrean - formerly of Ethiopia, on the Red Sea
Eshira
Eskimo - see Inuit
Esselen
Estonian - Finno-Ugric people of northeastern Europe
Evenks

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F

Fang - Western Africa
Fijian - Polynesian group, central South Pacific Ocean
Filipino
Finns - Ethnic group in Finland and Scandinavia, west of Russia
Flemish - Belgium and the Netherlands
Fon - Togo, Benin
Fur - western Sudan (Darfur)
French - western European
French Creole - of Haiti
French Canadian - of French Canadian culture, historically self-identified as Canadiens, then later as Canadiens-français and today as Québécois. See also Québécois, Metis and Acadians.
Frisian - Germanic group on a few islands in the North Sea
Fula
Fulani
Fulbe
Fulfulde
Fulni-o