List of ethnic groups

This is a list of ethnic groups.

• 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 - Balkan Penninsula
• Aleut - natives of Alaska, and the Yukon, Nunavut and Northwest Territories
• Algonquin - Native Americans of the eastern United States and Canada
• Altay - of Siberian Russia
• 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 - of the Caucasus region, formerly of the USSR
• Aromanian[?]
• Aruban - Dutch-colonized island in the Caribbean
• Asheninka[?]
• Assiniboine[?]
• Assyrian[?] - Middle Eastern
• Atikamekw
• Atsina[?]
• Atsugewi[?]
• Australian aborigine - natives of Australia
• Awa
• Aymara
• Azerbaijani - group of the Caucasus, formerly of the USSR
• Azeri
• Aztec - Central American group, descendants widespread in Mexico
• Ba Na[?]
• Baguirmi[?]
• Bai[?]
• 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
• Belarusian - Eastern European, formerly of the USSR
• Bengal - South Asian, Bangladesh
• Berber
• Betammaribe[?]
• Bethio
• Bhotia[?]
• Biafran - of Nigeria
• Bit
• Blackfeet
• Bo Y[?]
• Bohemian - a region in southern Germany
• Bonan[?]
• Bouganvillean[?] - island near Papua New Guinea
• Brau[?]
• Breton - Celtic group in northwest France
• Bru-Van Kieu[?] - Vietnam
• Brule[?]
• Bulang[?]
• Bulu-Beti[?]
• Buryat
• Bushongo[?]
• Buyi[?]
• Caddo[?]
• Cahuila[?]
• Caingang[?]
• Cajun - French-Americans in Louisiana
• Caprivian[?]
• Carib - of the Caribbean
• Caripuna[?]
• Carrier
• Catalonian - historical 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
• Croatian - Balkan penninsula, formerly of Yugoslavia
• Crow[?]
• Cupeno[?]
• Czech - Central European, formerly of Czechoslovakia
• Dagestani[?] - Central Russia
• Dai
• 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 De[?]
• Enxet
• Eritrean - formerly of Ethiopia, on the Red Sea
• Eshira[?]
• Esselen[?]
• Estonian - Eastern European, formerly of the USSR
• Evenki
• 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
• Frisian - Germanic group on a few islands in the North Sea
• Fula
• Fulani
• Fulbe
• Fulfulde
• Fulni-o[?]
• Gagauz[?]
• Gaoshan
• Garifuna[?]
• Ge - northern South America, Caribbean coast
• Gelao[?]
• Georgian - Caucasus region, formerly of the USSR
• German - northern European
• Gia Rai[?]
• Giay[?]
• Gie Trieng[?]
• Gongduk[?]
• Goshute[?]
• Goulaye[?]
• Greek - Southern tip of the Balkan Penninsula
• Greenlander - island in the North Atlantic
• Gros Ventre[?]
• Guajajara[?]
• Guarani
• Gurage[?] - Ethiopia
• Gurung[?]
• 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[?] - Balkan Penninsula, formerly of Yugoslavia
• 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 - Eastern European
• Hualapai[?] - Natives of Mesoamerica
• Hupa[?]
• Huastec
• Huron - Eastern United States Native American
• Hutu - Rwanda
• 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[?]
• Italian - penninsula in the south of Europe
• 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[?]
• Jri[?]
• Kalispel[?]
• Karaja[?]
• Karen[?] - southeast Asia
• Karok[?]
• Kashub - northern Europe
• Katang[?]
• Kato[?]
• Katu[?]
• Katuquina[?]
• Kavangos[?]
• Kaw
• Kaxinawa[?]
• Kavango
• Kazakh - Central Asia, Kazakhstan, formerly of the USSR
• 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 - Caucasus-region, Kirghizistan formerly of the USSR
• Klallam[?]
• Klamath - Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest
• Klikitat[?]
• Kolchan[?]
• Kootenai[?]
• Korean - Asian penninsula, 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 Iraq, Iran, Turkey
• Kutenai[?]
• Kwakiutl - of the Washington/British Columbia area
• 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 - Eastern European, formerly of the USSR
• Lavae[?]
• Laven[?]
• Lavi[?]
• Lebanese - Middle Eastern group, between Turkey and Israel
• Lebou
• Lenca[?]
• Lhoba
• Li Chinese
• Limbus[?]
• Lisu[?]
• Lithuanian - Eastern European, formerly of the USSR
• Lo Lo[?]
• Lotuko[?]
• Low Saxon - Northern Germany
• Lu[?]
• Lue[?]
• Luiseno[?]
• Lumbee[?]
• Lummi[?]
• M'Baka[?]
• Ma
• Macedonian Slavs[?] - of the Balkan Penninsula
• Macuxi[?]
• Madurese[?]
• Magar[?]
• Maidu[?]
• Makah[?]
• Makua[?]
• Makong[?]
• Malabo
• Malay[?] - dominant ethnic group in Malaysia
• Maliseet[?]
• Maltese - syncretist group in the Mediterranean
• Mam[?]
• 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[?]
• Mayan - natives of Central America, widespread
• Me-Wuk[?]
• Meherrin[?]
• Menba[?]
• Menominee[?] - Eastern United States Native American
• Métis
• Miami[?]
• Miao
• Miccosukee[?] - Eastern United States Native American
• Micmac[?] - Eastern United States 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 - Eastern European, formerly of the USSR
• 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[?]
• Montenegran - of the Balkan Penninsula
• Moor - Descendants of Arab invaders of the Hispanic Pennisula
• Muckleshoot
• Mulam[?]
• Muong[?]
• Museu[?]
• Myene[?]
• 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 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[?]
• 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[?]
• Polish - northern European
• Pomo[?]
• Ponca[?]
• Poospatuck[?]
• Portuguese - extreme southwest of Europe
• Potawatomi[?] - Eastern United States Native American
• Potiguara[?]
• Powhatan[?] - Eastern United States Native American
• Pu Peo[?]
• Pueblo - Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains-area
• Puelche[?]
• Puget Sound Salish[?] - of Washington
• Pumi[?]
• Puyallup[?]
• Quahatika[?]
• Quapaw[?]
• Quebecois - French-Canadians of Quebec
• Quechan
• Qiang[?]
• Quiche
• Quileute[?]
• Quinault[?]
• 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 - Eastern European, originally of Moscow, Kiev area, now widespread through Siberia and the Urals to the Pacific Ocean
• S'Klallam[?]
• Saami - (Lapplanders), northern extreme of Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Finland)
• Sadang[?]
• Saek[?]
• Salar[?]
• Salish[?] - of Washington and British Columbia
• Samaritan
• Samtao[?]
• San
• San Chay[?]
• San Diu[?]
• Sardinian - island near Italy
• Sarsi[?]
• Sauk
• Sauk-Suiattle[?]
• Scandinavian - Norway and Sweden
• Scottish - Celtic group in the north of Britain
• Sekani[?]
• Seminole - natives of Florida
• Semitic
• Sena[?]
• Seneca - Native Americans of the New York area
• Serbian - of the Balkan Penninsula, of Serbia
• Serer
• Serer-Ndut
• Shangaan[?]
• Shankella[?] - Ethiopia
• Shasta[?]
• Shawnee[?]
• She[?]
• Sherpa - group in Nepal and the Himalayas
• Shinnecock[?]
• Shoalwater Bay Tribe[?]
• Shoshone[?]
• Shui[?]
• Si La
• Sicilian - island south of Italy
• Sidamo[?] - Ethiopia
• Siksika[?]
• Siletz[?]
• Singmun[?]
• Sinhalese - group widespread in southern India and Sri Lanka
• Sinti - one of the two main groups of Gypsies
• Sioux - Northern Central United States
• Siuslaw[?]
• Slavik[?]
• Slovak - Central European, formerly of Czechoslovakia
• Slovene - Central European, formerly of Yugoslavia
• Skokomish[?]
• Somali[?] - Ethiopia
• Somba[?]
• Sorbic - concentrated minority in Germany
• Souei[?]
• Spanish - southwestern Europe
• Spokane[?]
• Squaxin Island Tribe[?]
• Stillaguamish[?]
• Sundanese[?]
• Suquamish[?]
• Swazi[?] - southern Africa, Swaziland
• Swinomish[?]
• Ta Oi[?]
• Tache[?]
• Tachi
• Tagish[?]
• Tahitian - Pacific Ocean island, Polynesian
• Taino - natives of the Caribbean
• Tajik - central Asia, formerly of the USSR
• Taliang[?]
• Tamil - of Sri Lanka, an island south of India
• Tanaina[?]
• Tanana[?]
• Taos
• Tapuia[?]
• Tarascan
• Tatar
• Tay[?]
• Tehuelche[?]
• Tejano - Latino immigrants to Texas
• Teotihuacan
• Terena[?]
• Teton[?] - Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area
• Tewa[?]
• Thai - southeast Asia
• Tharu[?]
• Thin[?]
• Tho[?]
• Tibetan - currently under Chinese rule, central Asia
• Ticuna[?]
• Tigre - Ethiopia
• Tigua[?]
• Tlakluit[?]
• Tlingit - Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest
• Tohono O'odham
• Tolowa[?]
• Toltec - Central America
• Tonkawa[?]
• Tongva
• Topachula[?]
• Totonac[?]
• Tsetsaut[?]
• Tsimishian[?] - Pacific Northwest Native Americans
• Tsonga[?]
• Tswana
• Tualalip[?]
• Tuareg
• Tujia]
• Tukanoan[?]
• Tukolor[?]
• Tulutni[?]
• Tum
• Tumbuka[?]
• Tungus[?]
• Tunica-Biloxi[?]
• Tupian[?]
• Turkish - Middle Eastern group, Turkey
• Turkmen - central Asia, Turkmenistan
• Tutchone[?]
• Tutsi - of Rwanda and southern Africa
• Tuvan - Central Asian group in Russia
• Tuvaluan[?] - Polynesian island chain in the Pacific Ocean
• Twa
• Tzigane
• Uighur - large Muslim minority in China
• Ukrainian - widespread ethnic group north of the Black Sea, formerly of the USSR
• Umatilla[?]
• Umpqua[?]
• Upper Skagit[?]
• Ute - Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area
• Uzbek - central Asia, Uzbekistan
• Wa
• Waccamaw[?]
• Wailaki[?]
• Welsh - Celtic nation in western England
• Walla Walla[?]
• Wampanoag[?]
• Wasco[?]
• Washoe[?]
• White Mountain Apache[?]
• Wichita[?]
• Wintun[?]
• Wiyot[?]
• Wolof - Senegal and elsewhere in western Africa
• Wyandot
• Xacriaba[?]
• Xavante[?]
• Xerente[?]
• Xhosa - of Southern Africa
• Xibe
• Xinh Mun[?]
• Xo Dang[?]
• Xtieng[?]
• Xucuru
• Xueda[?]
• Yae[?]
• Yakama[?]
• Yakima[?]
• Yakut[?] - in eastern Russia
• Yang
• Yanomami - the Amazon river basin, Brazil
• Yao[?]
• Yavapai
• Yawanawa[?]
• Yi[?]
• Yocha-Dehe[?]
• Yokut[?]
• Yoruba - western Africa
• Yugur[?]
• Yuki[?] - Native Americans of northwestern California
• Yupik
• Yuma
• Yumbri[?]
• Yurok[?]
• Zapotec - Central America
• Zhuang
• Zulu - of southern Africa
• Zuni[?] - of the southwestern United States

See also:

• Native American
• List of Chinese ethnic groups, Ethnic groups in Chinese history
• Indigenous people of Brazil
• Indigenous cultures, kingdoms and ethnic groups of Senegal
• List of ethnic groups in Vietnam
• List of ethnic groups in Laos