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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Abenaki - Native Americans of Quebec , Vermont , New Hampshire , and possibly Maine (Algonquin people )
Abkhaz - Minority in Georgia , Turkey and Russia , Abkhazia
Acadian - French-Canadians of the Canadian Maritimes
Accohannock - Native Americans of Maryland
Achang - Yunnan , China
Achomawi - Native Americans of California
Acoma - Native Americans of the southwest United States and Mexico
Adja - Minority in Benin
Adyghe - Minority in Russia , in the north Caucasus region.
Afar - Minority in Ethiopia , Eritrea and Djibouti . Also known as Danakil
African-American - Descendants of African slaves brought to North America
Afrikaners - Descendents of Dutch settlers / French Huguenot refugees & German Protestants of southern Africa
Afro-Cuban
Afromestizos
Afro-Trinidadian
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 , Serbia and Montenegro and Greece .
Aleut - Natives of Alaska, and the Yukon , Nunavut and Northwest Territories
Algonquian - Native Americans of the eastern United States and Canada
Altaic peoples - Non-homogeneous peoples of the Altai Mountains region
American - Heterogeneous population of primarily English and Spanish speaking people with a similar culture living in the United States.
Americo-Liberians - Descendants of African slaves repatriated to Liberia
Amhara - Indigenous people of central Ethiopia
Amish - North American religious minority, of German descent
Amungme
Andorrans - Inhabitants of a small nation between France and Spain
Anglo-Celtic Australian - Inhabitants of Australia with British descent
Anglo-Indian - Offspring of mixed Indian and British parents resident in India
Anglo-Saxon - Often used to mean a person of English ancestry
Annamites - A people of Mongolian descent living in Vietnam.
Apaches - groups of Native Americans in the western plains of the United States
Apinaje
Arab - originally from Arabia , now widespread throughout the Middle East and North Africa
Aramean - Semitic people of the Middle East , chiefly resident in Syria
Arapaho - Native American people, formerly inhabiting Colorado and Wyoming , now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming
Araucanian - Non-homogenous peoples of South America , inhabiting Chile and western Argentina
Arawak - natives of the Caribbean
Arikara - Native American people from the upper Midwest
Armenians - natives of the Caucasus region, Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh , with a large worldwide diaspora
Aromanians (or Macedo-Romanians ) - a population living as a minority in Northern Greece, Serbia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Albania and Bulgaria
Arubans - Dutch -colonized island in the Caribbean
Asheninka
Assiniboine - Native American people living in Alberta , Saskatchewan , and Montana ; one of the Sioux peoples
Assyrians - Middle Eastern , principally in Syria
Atikamekw
Atsina - Native American people inhabiting Montana and formerly Saskatchewan
Atsugewi
Australian aborigine - generic name for native inhabitants of Australia
Avars - inhabitants of the Russian republic of Dagestan
Awá - an endangered Amazonian tribe of hunter-gatherers
Aymaras - South American people of Bolivia and Peru
Azeris - Turkic people living in Caucasus , mostly in Azerbaijan , as well as in northwestern parts of Iran
Aztecs - Central American people, descendants widespread in Mexico
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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
Bashkirs (or Bashkhirs ) - people of east central Russia , inhabiting principally Bashkortostan
Basotho - inhabitants of Lesotho
Basques - located in the Pyrenees between Spain and France
Bassa - people of Liberia
Bassari
Baster (also known as Baaster) - people descended from the offspring of Dutch speaking whites and black African women
Bate Boiko
Bateke - minority group in the Republic of the Congo
Batswana - largest ethnic group in Botswana
Bavarians - inhabitant of the German state of Bavaria , with a distinctive dialect of High German
Baya-Mandjia
Bedouins - nomadic group throughout North Africa and western Middle East
Beja - nomadic group in northern Eritrea, southern Egypt, and northeastern Sudan
Belarusians - Slavic people of eastern Europe , Belarus
Bengalis - South Asian people, inhabiting Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal
Berbers - a North African people, living in Morocco , Algeria , Tunisia , Libya and Egypt
Betammaribe
Bethio
Beti-Pahuin - group of peoples from Central Africa
Bhotia - majority population of Bhutan , of Tibetan descent
Biafrans - inhabitant of eastern Nigerian region (see also Ibo )
Bit
Blackfeet (or Blackfoot ) - group of Native American peoples of the Great Plains , comprising the Blackfoot, Blood , and Piegan tribes.
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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
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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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 .
Canaanites
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
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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 Britain
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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M'Baka
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Macedonian Slavs - Slavic people of southeastern Europe
Macuxi
Madurese
Magar
Mahican - Native Americans from New England
Maidu
Maingtha - see Achang
Maka-Njem - people of southern Cameroon
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
Mapuche
Maricopa
Marquesas - Polynesian island chain in the Eastern Pacific
Maori - indigenous people of New Zealand
Mashantucket Pequots - Native Americans of New England
Mattaponi
Matabele - Southern Africa
Maubere
Maya - natives of south-east Mexico and northern Central America , widespread
Me-Wuk
Megleno-Romanians - in Greece
Meherrin
Melungeon
Memon - India and Pakistan
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
Minahasa - Indonesia
Mingo
Mission
Miwok
Mixtec - Central American natives
Mnong
Modoc
Mohave - Native Americans of the southwest United States
Mohawk - Eastern United States Native American
Mohegan
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 - Slavicized Descendents of the Dinaric peoples of southeastern Europe
Moor - Descendants of Arab invaders of the Hispanic Peninsula
Moriori - indigenous ethnic-group of the Chatham Islands , New Zealand
Muckleshoot
Mulam
Muong
Museu
Myene
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