List of contemporary 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 Carribean
- 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, Carribean 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, Carribean
- 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 Mediteranean
- 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 Carribean
- 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
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