Ethnic group

An ethnic group is a group of people who are considered to be the same in some way. They may all have the same ancestors, speak the same language, or have the same religion.

Sometimes almost all of the people in one country are of the same ethnic group, but not always. Often one country may have several different ethnic groups, or the people of one ethnic group may live in several different countries.

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ensures the right of ethnic group by the Article 27 and also right to use their own language.

List of ethnic groups

• Afro-Caribbean (in the Caribbean)
• Albanians (in Albania and Kosovo)
• Arabs (in North Africa and the Middle East)
• Armenians (in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh)
• Basques (in the Basque area in Spain and France)
• Bengalis (in Bangladesh, West Bengal, and Tripura)
• Berbers (in northwest Africa)
• Bosniaks (in Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• Canadians (in Canada)
• Cantonese people (in Hong Kong, Macao, and the Guangdong area of China)
• Cornish people (in Cornwall)
• Croats (in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• Czechs (in the Czech Republic)
• Danes (in Denmark and Germany)
• Dogon people (in Mali in west Africa)
• Dutch people (in the Netherlands and Belgium)
• English people (sometimes called Anglo-Saxons, in England)
• Finns (in Scandinavia)
• French people (in France and countries next to it)
• Germans (in Germany, Austria and nearby countries)
• Greeks (in Greece and Cyprus)
• Han (in China, as well as Taiwan, Singapore, Christmas Island and Indonesia)
• Italians (in Italy)
• Igbo people (in Nigeria)
• Irish people (in Ireland)
• Jews (throughout the world, but mostly in Israel, Europe and North America)
• Kashmiris (in Pakistan, India, and China).
• Kazakhs (in Kazakhstan)
• Magyars (sometimes called Hungarian people; in Hungary and Romania)
• Malays (in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and part of Thailand)
• Mandé people (in Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Mali, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Burkina Faso, and Côte d'Ivoire)
• Mongols (in Mongolia, China and Russia)
• Mossi (in Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana
• Native Americans (also called First Nations, Amerindians and American Indians; in the Americas)
• Norwegians (in Scandinavia)
• Punjabi people (in the Indian and Pakistani Punjabs)
• Poles (in Poland)
• Roma (sometimes called gypsies; nomadic; worldwide)
• Russians (in Russia and nearby countries)
• Sámi (sometimes called Lapps; in the Lappland area of Scandinavia)
• Scots (in Scotland)
• Serbs (in Serbia,Croatia,Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries)
• Slovaks (in Slovakia)
• Slovenes (in Slovenia)
• Swedes (in Scandinavia)
• Tamils (in southern India and northern Sri Lanka)
• Tatars (in Tatarstan and all over the world)
• Turks (in Turkey and Cyprus)
• Viet (in Vietnam
• Welsh people (in Wales)