A group can have several names (e.g., names in English and in a native language, obsolete names, versions of spelling, etc.) An ethnic group is a human population whose members identify with each other, usually on the basis of a supposedly shared common genealogy or ancestry (Smith 1986). Henceforth, this list may include only groups whose members self-identify and/or are identified by others as members of an ethnic group.
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- Abenaki - Native Americans of Quebec , Vermont , New Hampshire , and possibly Maine and Nova Scotia ( Algonquin People )
- Abkhazians - Minority in Georgia , Turkey and Russia , majority (since 1993 civil war) in Abkhazia
- Indigenous Australians , also called ''Aborigines'', indigenous peoples of mainland Australia .
- 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
- Adyghe - Minority in Russia , in the north Caucasus region.
- Afar - A tribal people in Ethiopia , Eritrea and Djibouti . Also known as ''Danakil''
- African-American - Americans of black Africa n origin
- Afrikaners - descendants of Dutch settlers / French Huguenot refugees & German Protestants of southern Africa
- Afro-Cuban - Cubans of black Africa n origin
- Afromestizos
- Afro-Trinidadian
- Aftsarians or Isaurians
- Agni - minority group in Côte D'Ivoire
- Aguls - Dagestan i minority group
- Ahtna - Native Alaska ns, 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 west Balkans , principally residing in Albania , Kosovo , Macedonia , Italy and Greece .
''See also: Albanians In The Republic Of Macedonia ''
- 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 Altay Mountains region
- and Spain , this is a label referring to all inhabitants of the The Americas .
- Americo-Liberians - Mulatto African American s were given Reparations For Slavery in the form of their own country back in their homeland and this is Liberia , so they are Liberians.
- Amhara - Indigenous people of central Ethiopia
- Amish - North America n religious minority, of German descent
- Amungme
- Andorran s - Inhabitants of a small nation between France and Spain
- Anglo-American - In the United States , this term identifies Anglo-Saxon s and other Euro-Americans who have assimilated or adhere to the Anglo-Saxon ethnicity
- Anglo-Celtic Australian - Inhabitants of Australia with British , Irish or other European descent
- Anglo-Indian - Offspring of mixed India n and British parentage resident in India and Great Britain
- Anglo-Saxon - Historically, the name for the united Teuton tribes inhabiting Britain from the 5th century to the Norman invasion. Most commonly used today in the United States for a person of British descent, or pertaining to the English speaking world.
- Annamites or Vietnamese or Kinh or Jing - A people of Mongolian descent living in Vietnam as the dominant majority.
- Ansar or Ansarie
- Antiguan
- Antillean
- 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 - 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-homogeneous peoples of South America , inhabiting Chile and western Argentina
- Arawak - natives of the Caribbean
- Arikara - Native American people from the upper Midwest United States
- Armenians - natives of the Caucasus region, Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh , with a large worldwide Diaspora
- Aromanians (or ''Macedo-Romanians'') - a minority population of Northern Greece , Serbia , the Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia , Albania and Bulgaria
- Arubans - population of Aruba , a Dutch island in the Caribbean
- Arvanites
- Aryans - Indo-Iranians , ancient inhabitants of South Asia (excluding Southern India), Central Asia and the Iranian Plateau , but it can also refer to Indo-Aryans , who are inhabiting the majority of South Asia, as well as Afghanistan
- Asheninka
- Ashkenazi Jews - approximately 80% of the world's Jewish population
- Assiniboine - Native American people living in Alberta , Saskatchewan , and Montana ; one of the Sioux peoples
- Assyrians - Middle East ern, principally in Iraq and Syria with large Diaspora
- Atikamekw
- Atsina - Native American people inhabiting Montana and formerly Saskatchewan
- Atsugewi
- Australian Aborigine - generic name for native inhabitants of Australia
- Avars - inhabitants of the Russia n republic of Dagestan
- Awá - an endangered Amazonia n tribe of Hunter-gatherer s
- Aymara s - South American people of Bolivia and Peru
- Azeris - Turkic People of the Caucasus , living predominantly in Azerbaijan , northern Iran , Russia and Georgia .
- Aztecs - Central America n people, descendants widespread in Mexico
- Amerasian -A person of American and Asian descent, especially one whose mother is Asian and whose father is American
- Ba Na
- Baggara or ''Baqqarah'' - Sudan
- Baguirmi - inhabitants of Chad
- Bahamian
- 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 Russia n republic of Kabardino-Balkaria
- Baloch (also ''Baluch'') - traditionally nomadic Muslim people of Baluchistan
- Bamar - the majority ethnic group of Myanmar
- 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
- Barbadian
- Barbudan
- 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
- 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 Asia n Indo-Aryan people, inhabiting Bangladesh and the India n state of West Bengal
- Berbers - a North Africa n 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 Tibet an descent
- Biafran s - inhabitant of eastern Nigeria n region (see also Ibo )
- Blackfeet (or ''Blackfoot'') - group of Native American peoples of the Great Plains of the United States , comprising the Blackfoot, Blood , and Piegan tribes.
- Bo Y
- Bonan
- Bonairean - population of Bonaire , Netherlands Antilles
- BORAN - Oromo inhabitants of Kenya and Ethiopia and Part of the Large Oromo Community
- Bosniaks - Muslim Slavic People of Southeastern Europe , inhabiting chiefly Bosnia And Herzegovina and Sandžak
- Bouganvilleans - inhabitants of island near Papua New Guinea
- Boyko - the mountain people in Central Europe
- Brau
- Bretons - Celt ic group in northwest France
- Briton s - indigenous and majority population of Great Britain encompassing the groups of English , Scottish and Welsh as well as regional groups within these groups. Also used to refer to citizens of the United Kingdom which includes Northern Ireland .
- British-Canadian - Anglophone Canadians, largely of British descent.
- 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
- Bugis is one of the etnics in Indonesia and Malaysia , mostly inhabiting South Sulawesi of Indonesia and state of Sabah of Malaysia.
- Bulang
- Bulgars - an ancient people of Central Asia
- Bulgarians - Slavic People of the Balkans
- Bunjevci - Slavic People of the Balkans
- Buryats - people of the eastern Russian republic of Buryatia
- Bushongo - inhabitants of the Congo Basin region
- Buyi - national minority of China
- 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 - ancient people of the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea
- 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
- Cape Verdean - inhabitants of Cape Verde
- 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
- Caribbean
- Caripuna
- Catalans - inhabitants of north-eastern Spain , southwestern France and Andorra
- Catawba - Native Americans from the Carolina region of the United States , now resident in western South Carolina
- Caymanian
- 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
- Ceylon Moors - people who are of Arab stock living in Sri Lanka
- Cham - a people of Indonesian stock living in Cambodia and central Vietnam
- Chagga - a people of Bantu stock (Niger-Congo-B) living in Kilimanjaro Region in Tanzania
- Chamorro - the indigenous people of the Mariana Islands
- 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 s - a term used by some United States citizens 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
- Chinese - Han Chinese people, the dominant ethnic group of China
- 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
- Circassians or Cherkezians
- 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
- Chuvash - A Turkic people in Russia
- Chut
- Ciboney - Mesoamerica n inhabitants of Cuba , now extinct
- Circassians
- 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
- Colchians or Kolchians
- 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
- Comorian
- Cong
- Coquille
- Cornish - a British people from the South West of Great 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
- Cupeño
- Curacaoan - people of Curaçao , Netherlands Antilles
- Czechs - Slavic People of Central Europe
- Iceland ic - North Atlantic island
- Igbo - West Africa ( Nigeria )
- Illinois
- Inca n - Of western South America , along the Andes and particularly Peru
- Indian - inhabitants of India (refers to many ethnic groups)
- Indo-Aryan - speakers of Indo-Aryan Languages originating from Northern India , Pakistan , Bangladesh and Afghanistan (refers to many ethnic groups)
- Indo-Caribbean - Caribbean people (found mostly in Trinidad And Tobago , Jamaica ) and South American people (found mostly in Guyana , Suriname )of South Asian origins India , Nepal , Myanmar , Bangladesh , Pakistan , Sri Lanka
- Indo-Europeans - hypothetical pre-historic people that spoke the hypothetical Proto-Indo-European Language
- Indo-Iranians - speakers of Aryan / Indo-Iranian languages originating from the Indian Subcontinent , Iranian Plateau and Central Asia (refers to many ethnic groups)
- Indo-Trinidadian - Trinidad and Tobago people of South Asian origins India , Nepal , Myanmar , Bangladesh , Pakistan , Sri Lanka
- Ingushes - Ingushetia , northern Caucasus
- Ingalik - see '' Deg Hit'an ''
- Innu - Native Americans of eastern Canada
- Inuit - Widespread in Alaska and northern Canada
- Iowa
- Irani - religious and ethnic community of the Indian subcontinent. See also Parsi .
- Iranian - Aryan speakers of Iranian Languages inhabiting the Iranian Plateau , Afghanistan , Tajikistan , Uzbekistan and other parts of the Caucasus and Central Asia (refers to a number of ethnic groups including Persians and Kurds )
- Irish - the native people of Ireland
- Irish Traveller - nomadic people of Irish origin living in Ireland , Great Britain and the United States
- Irish-American - Americans of Irish descent
- 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
- Italian-American - Americans of Italian descent
- Italkim - the Jews Of Italy
- M'Baka
- Ma
- Macedonian Slavs - Slavic People of Southeastern Europe
- Macuxi
- Madurese
- Magar
- Mahican - Native Americans from New England
- Mahorian
- Maidu
- Maingtha - see Achang
- Maka-Njem - people of southern Cameroon
- Makah
- Makua
- Makong
- Malabo
- Malayalee People of Kerala State, South India
- 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 - indigenous people of the Isle Of Man
- Maonan
- Mapuche
- Maratha - People of Western India , formerly emperors of undivided India
- Maricopa
- Marquesas - Polynesia n island chain in the Eastern Pacific
- Martiniquais
- Māori - indigenous people of New Zealand
- Mashantucket Pequots - Native Americans of New England
- Mattaponi
- Matabele - Southern Africa
- Maubere
- Mauritian
- Maya - collective term for diverse groups of indigenous peoples 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
- Mentawai - Mentawai Islands , West Sumatra , Indonesia
- Métis
- Miami
- Miao
- Miccosukee - Eastern United States Native American
- Middle Eastern - Assyrian Jewish Arabic Turkish Kurdish Persians
- Mi'kmaq - Eastern United States and Atlantic Canada Native American
- Mina
- Minahasa - Indonesia
- Minangkabau - West Sumatra , Indonesia
- Mingo
- Mission
- Miwok
- Mixtec - Central America n natives
- Mnong
- Modoc
- Mohave - Native Americans of the southwest United States
- Mohawk - Eastern United States Native American
- Mohegan
- Moldovan - ethnic group that lives mainly in the Republic Of Moldova and Ukraine
- Mon - southeast Asia , particularly Thailand
- Monacan - Native American ethnic group from the Eastern United States , not to be confused with a person from Monaco
- Mongol - Central Asia , between Russia and China
- Mono - Native Americans from Eastern California and Nevada
- Montaukett
- Montenegrin - Slavicized descendants of the Dinaric peoples of Southeastern Europe
- Moor - people living mainly in Western Sahara and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, from which the latter country derives its name.
- Moriori - indigenous ethnic-group of the Chatham Islands , New Zealand
- Muckleshoot
- Mulam
- Munda s
- Muong
- Mursi
- Museu
- Myene
- Pa Then
- Paiute
- Pākehā - Caucasian New Zealanders with no or little defined European links, typically of British, Irish and Dutch extraction
- Pakoh
- Palestinian - much-disputed ethnic group of the Middle East
- Pamunkey
- Panoan
- Parsi - ethnic group of the Indian subcontinent ( Etymologically related to, but not to be confused with Persian Language word for a person from Pars )
- Pashtun (Pathan) - large group inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistan (with smaller communities in Iran and India ) who have mixed Indo-Aryan , Persian / Iranian , Turkic , Kurdish , Mediterranean , Mongol and Central Asian descent
- Passamaquoddy
- Patagonia n - southern tip of South America , Argentina
- Pataxo
- Paugusset
- Pawnee - Eastern United States Native American
- Pennsylvania Dutch - 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.
- Pennsylvania German - people of many religious affiliations whose families were formerly Pennsylvania Dutch. Called Pennsylvania Dutch by some.
- Penobscot - Eastern United States Native American
- Peoria
- Persians - ( Persian ) speaking Iranian Peoples in Iran , Afghanistan , Tajikistan , Uzbekistan and other parts of the Caucasus and Central Asia (linguistically belong to the Aryan / Indo-Iranian branch).
- Phong
- Phu La
- Phu Noi
- Phu Thai
- Piegan
- Pima
- Pit River Indians
- Pitcairn-Norfolk
- Polish - Slavic People of Central Europe
- Pomaks - Slavic Muslim s found in Bulgaria , Turkey and Greece
- Pomo
- Ponca
- Poospatuck
- Portuguese - extreme southwest of Europe
- Potawatomi - Eastern United States Native American
- Potiguara
- Powhatan - Eastern United States Native American
- Proto-Indo-Europeans - pre-historic speakers of the hypothetical Proto-Indo-European Language
- Pu Peo
- Pueblo People - Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains -area
- Puelche
- Puget Sound Salish - of Washington
- Punjabis - Indo-Aryan group inhabiting the Punjab , located between India and Pakistan
- Pumi
- Puyallup
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