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| Name | Country | Population | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abazins | Russia (Karachay-Cherkessia, Adygea), Turkey, Armenia | 50,000 | |
| Abenaki | Canada (Quebec, Nova Scotia), United States (Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine) | 12,000 | Native Americans |
| Abipones | Argentina | extinct | |
| Abkhazs | Georgia, Turkey, Russia, Abkhazia | ~200,000 – 600,000 | |
| Aboriginal Australians | Australia | 550,000 | Indigenous peoples of Australia |
| Abron | Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire | 1,200,000 | |
| Acadians | Canada (Canadian Maritimes), United States (Madawaska, Maine) | 500,000 | French-Canadians |
| Accohannock | United States (Maryland) | Native Americans | |
| Achang | China (Yunnan) | 29,000 | |
| Acelmese | Indonesia | 1,200,000 | |
| Acholi | Uganda | Luo people | |
| Achomawi | United States (California) | 1,500 | band of the Pit River tribe of Native Americans |
| Acoma | United States (southwest), Mexico | 5,000 | Native Americans |
| Adi | India (Arunachal Pradesh) | ||
| Adjarians | Georgia (Adjara) | ~70,000 | sub-group of Georgians of the Islamic religion |
| Adyghe | Russia (North Caucasus region), Turkey | ~600,000 | |
| Adyhaffe | |||
| Aeta | Philippines | ||
| Afar | Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti | ~5,000,000 | Also known as Danakil |
| African-American | United States | 40,000,000 | citizens of the United States descended from West African slaves or otherwise of African ancestry |
| African Canadian | Canada | 800,000 | may include West Indian and Afro-Caribbean peoples in Canada |
| African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem | Israel | ~5,000 | an ethnic minority of black people in Israel |
| Afrikaners | South Africa | 3,600,000 | South Africans of mostly Dutch ancestry, but also including the descendants of French Huguenot and German Protestant refugees, who intermarried with Dutch settlers and adopted Afrikaans as their mother tongue |
| Afro Argentine | Argentina | Afro-American peoples of the Americas, Afro-Latin American | |
| Afro Bolivian | Bolivia | Afro-American peoples of the Americas, Afro-Latin American | |
| Afro Brazilian | Brazil | Afro-American peoples of the Americas, Afro-Latin American | |
| Afro-Chilean | Chile | Afro-American peoples of the Americas, Afro-Latin American | |
| Afro-Colombian | Colombia | Afro-American peoples of the Americas, Afro-Latin American | |
| Afro-Costa Rican | Costa Rica | Afro-American peoples of the Americas, Afro-Latin American | |
| Afro-Cuban | Cuba | Afro-American peoples of the Americas, Afro-Latin American | |
| Afro-Dominican | Dominican Republic | Afro-American peoples of the Americas, Afro-Latin American | |
| Afro-Ecuadorian people | Ecuador | Afro-American peoples of the Americas, Afro-Latin American | |
| Afro-Guyanese | Guyana | Afro-American peoples of the Americas | |
| Afro-Jamaican | Jamaica | Afro-American peoples of the Americas | |
| Afro-Mexican | Mexico | Afro-American peoples of the Americas, Afro-Latin American | |
| Afro-Peruvian | Peru | Afro-American peoples of the Americas, Afro-Latin American | |
| Afro-Portuguese | Portugal | 150,000 | residents or citizens of Portugal of Black-African descent |
| Afro-Puerto Rican | Puerto Rico | Afro-American peoples of the Americas, Afro-Latin American | |
| Afro-Trinidadian | Trinidad and Tobago | Afro-American peoples of the Americas | |
| Afro-Uruguayan | Uruguay | Afro-American peoples of the Americas, Afro-Latin American | |
| Aftsarians or Isaurians | Turkey | ||
| Agaw | Ethiopia, Eritrea | ||
| Agni | Côte d'Ivoire | ||
| Aguls | Dagestan | 30,000 | |
| Ahtna | United States (Copper River) | 500 | Alaska Natives |
| Aimaq | Afghanistan, Iran, Tajikistan | 1,600,000 | |
| Ainu | Japan, Russia (Sakhalin Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, Kamchatka Krai) | ~25,000 - 200,000 | Natives of Hokkaidō, much of Sakhalin, the Kuriles, and at one time northern Honshū, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Amur River basin |
| Aynu | China | different from the Ainu of Japan and Russia | |
| Aja | Benin, Togo | 500,000 | part of the Gbe linguistic/cultural group |
| Aka | Central African Republic, Congo, Republic of the | 30,000 | |
| Akie | Tanzania | 5,200 | |
| Ak Chin | United States (Tohono O'odham reservation, Pinal County, Arizona) | Native Americans | |
| Akan | Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire | 20,000,000 | |
| Akha | Thailand | 450,000 | |
| Akuapem | Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana | ~1,000,000 | |
| Akhvakh people | Dagestan | 8,000 | |
| Akyem | Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana | ~4,000,000 | |
| Alabama | United States (Oklahoma, Texas) | 1,500 | Native American people from whom the state takes its name; now sharing a reservation in Texas with the Coushatta |
| Alak | Laos | 4,000 | |
| Albanians | Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Greece, Turkey, Italy (Arbereshe) | 7,000,000 | Balkan people |
| Albanian American | United States | 200,000 | United States citizens of full or partial Albanian ancestry |
| Albanian Australian | Australia | 11,000 | residents of Australia who are of Albanian ancestry |
| Aleut | United States (Aleutian Islands), Russia (Chukotka Autonomous Okrug) | 18,000 | Alaska Natives |
| Algonquian | United States (eastern), Canada | Native Americans | |
| Aliutors | Russia (Koryak Autonomous Okrug) | ~2,000 - 3,000 | |
| Alsatians | France | inhabitants of Alsace, France who are of ethnic German origin. | |
| Amahuaca | Bolivia, Peru | 500 | |
| Amerasians | Japan, Korea, Republic of, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam | Children and grandchildren of mixed-race unions of U.S. American servicemen and Asian women, most notably during the Vietnam war era | |
| Americans | United States (North America) | 311,591,917 | |
| Americo-Liberians | Liberia | 150,000 - 200,000 | Liberian ethnicity of African American descent |
| Amhara | Ethiopia | 20,000,000 | also the Amharic language |
| Amish | United States (Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, New York), Canada (Ontario) | 250,000 | North American religious minority, of German descent |
| Amungme | Indonesia (Papua province) | 13,000 | |
| Andalusians | Spain | 17,500,000 | Latin European peoples; inhabitants of southern Iberia |
| Andis | Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||
| Anga | Papua New Guinea | ||
| Anglo-African | South Africa | 2,000,000 | White African people of largely British descent who live or come from Sub-Saharan Africa and are Anglophone |
| Anglo-Burmese | Burma | 52,000 | mixed-race descendants of Burmese and Anglophone British colonists |
| Anglo-Celtic Australian | Australia | 13,000,000 | Majority inhabitants of Australia with mixed English and Celtic (especially Irish and Scottish, but also Welsh and even Cornish and Manx) ancestry |
| Anglo-Indian | India | 125,000 | People of mixed Indian and English ancestry, or people of British ancestry living in India |
| Anglo-Irish | Ireland | a term used primarily in the 19th and early 20th centuries to identify a privileged social class in Ireland, whose members were the descendants and successors of the Protestant Ascendancy | |
| Anglo-Norman | United Kingdom | mainly the descendants of the Normans who ruled England following the Norman conquest by William the Conqueror in 1066 | |
| Anglo-Saxon | United Kingdom | Historically, a collective name for the Germanic tribes resident Great Britain since the 5th century, especially prior to the Norman Conquest; Became the largest group to form the English people | |
| Annamites or Vietnamese or Kinh or Jing | Vietnam | 77,000,000 | Majority ethnic group of Vietnam |
| Ansar people or Ansarie | Syria, Lebanon, Turkey | 4,000,000 | |
| Anuak | South Sudan, Ethiopia | 350,000 | |
| Apaches | United States (Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma) | 56,000 | Native Americans |
| Apinaje | Brazil | Indigenous peoples of Brazil. | |
| Appalachian Folk culture of the Southeastern United States. | |||
| Arab | Arab League | 280,000,000 | originally from Arabia, now widespread throughout the Middle East and North Africa (see Arabization) and tens of millions of ethnic Arabs live worldwide in diaspora |
| Arab American | United States | 1,680,000 | Arab diaspora |
| Arab Argentine | Argentina | ~130,000-350,000 | Arab diaspora |
| Arab Australian | Australia | 360,000 | Arab diaspora |
| Arab Brazilian | Brazil | 10,000,000-15,000,000 | Arab diaspora |
| Arab Britons | United Kingdom | 500,000 | Arab diaspora |
| Arabs in Bulgaria | Bulgaria | ~10,000-17,000 | Arab diaspora |
| Arab Canadian | Canada | 470,000 | Arab diaspora |
| Arab Chilean | Chile | 800,000 | Arab diaspora |
| Arab residents in Côte d'Ivoire | Côte d'Ivoire | 100,000 | Arab diaspora |
| Arab Ecuadorians | Ecuador | ~20,000 - 97,500 | Arab diaspora |
| Arab Haitian | Haiti | 15,000 | Arab diaspora |
| Arabs in France | France | 2,500,000 | Arab diaspora |
| Arabs in Germany | Germany | ~400,000-500,000 | Arab diaspora |
| Arabs in Greece | Greece | 200,000 | Arab diaspora |
| Arab Indonesians | Indonesia | 87,000 | Arab diaspora |
| Arabs in Italy | Italy | 100,000 | Arab diaspora |
| Arab Mexican | Mexico | 1,100,000 | Arab diaspora |
| Arab Dutch | Netherlands | 418,000 | Arab diaspora |
| Arabs in Pakistan | Pakistan | 10,000 | Arab diaspora |
| Arab Peruvian | Peru | 10,000 | Arab diaspora |
| Arab settlement in the Philippines | Philippines | ~22,000 | Arab diaspora |
| Arab Singaporean | Singapore | 7,000 - 10,000 | Arab diaspora |
| Arab Sri Lankans | Sri Lanka | ~200,000 | Arab diaspora |
| Arabs in Sweden | Sweden | 10,000 | Arab diaspora |
| Arabs in Turkey | Turkey | 800,000 | Arab diaspora |
| Arab Venezuelan | Venezuela | 1,600,000 | Arab diaspora |
| Arab diaspora in Colombia | Colombia | 84,000 | Arab diaspora |
| Arabs in Afghanistan | Afghanistan | 10,000 | Arab diaspora |
| Iranian Arabs | Iran | 1,557,000 | Arab diaspora |
| Aramaeans | Syria | Aramaic speaking people in Syria | |
| Araon | China | ||
| Aragonese | Spain | 1,277,471 | Inhabitants of Aragon (Iberian Peninsula). One of the nationalities of Spain. Ethnic Aragonese live primarily in Upper Aragon. There are also some Aragonese in the Spanish diaspora. |
| Arapaho | United States (Colorado, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Nebraska) | 5,000 | Native American people, formerly inhabiting Colorado and Wyoming, now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming |
| Arawak | Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Colombia, The Caribbean | ~450,000 | Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean |
| Arbëreshë | Italy | 260,000 | an Albanian population in Italy |
| Archis | Dagestan | 1,200 | |
| Arikara | United States (North Dakota) | Native Americans | |
| Armenians | Armenia, Russia, Iran, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey | 8,000,000 - 12,000,000 | natives of Eastern Anatolia |
| Armenian American | United States | 474,559 | United States citizens of Armenian ancestry |
| Aromanians | Greece, Serbia, Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Bulgaria | 100,000 - 1,000,000 | |
| Arvanites | Greece | 50,000 - 200,000 | an Albanian-speaking population in Greece |
| Ashkenazi Jews | Israel | A branch of the Jewish diaspora, stemming from the indigenous Hebrew speaking peoples of the Levant, who settled in Central and later Eastern Europe during the early Middle Ages. | |
| Assyrian people | Assyria | 3,000,000 | Indigenous Semites of Iraq, South East Turkey and North East Syria |
| Atoni | East Timor | 600,000 | |
| Aryans/Indo-Iranians | descendants of the Aryans, the ancient inhabitants of the northern Indian subcontinent (excluding Southern India), Central Asia and the Iranian plateau. | ||
| Indo-Aryan peoples | India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives | 1,210,000,000 | |
| Iranian peoples | Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Turkey, The Caucasus | 160,000,000 - 190,000,000 | (the name "Iran" means "Aryan" in Persian) |
| Asante (Ashanti) | Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire | ~10,000,000 | |
| Asheninka | Peru, Brazil | 25,000 - 45,000 | Indigenous peoples of Peru |
| Asmat | Indonesia (Papua Province) | 70,000 | |
| Assiniboine | Canada (Alberta, Saskatchewan), United States (Montana) | Native American people of the Sioux | |
| Assyrians | Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Sweden, United States, Jordan, Assyria | 3,300,000 - 4,200,000 | |
| Asturians | Spain | 1,076,896 | |
| Atacameno | Chile | 2,000 | Native Americans |
| Atta | Philippines | ||
| Ati | Philippines | 2,000 | |
| Atikamekw | Canada (Quebec) | 4,500 | Native Americans |
| Atsina | United States (Montana) | 3,682 | Native American people inhabiting Montana and formerly Saskatchewan |
| Atsugewi | United States (California) | 850 | Native Americans |
| Aukstaitians | Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus | ~300,000 | |
| Austrians | Austria | 10,000,000 | a German-speaking, Germanic people, native to Austria and South Tyrol (today Italy) |
| Avars | Dagestan | 1,000,000 | |
| Awá | Brazil | 300 | An endangered Amazonian tribe of hunter-gatherers. |
| Aymaras | Bolivia, Peru, Chile | ~2,000,000 | indigenous ethnic group of Andes and Altiplano |
| Ayrums | Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Iran | ||
| Azerbaijanis | Azerbaijan, Turkey, Russia, Georgia, Iran | 22,000,000 - 35,000,000 | People of Turkic-Tatar ethnicity |
| Aztecs | Mexico | 1,500,000 | Native North American people, descendants widespread in Mexico (see also Nahuatl) |
| Ayapaneco | Mexico | 2 | Indigenous people of Mexico, currently only two persons of this community still speak the Ayapaneco language |
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