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| Name | Country | Population | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caddo | United States (Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas) | 5,757 | Native American peoples. |
| Cahuilla | United States (California) | 1,276 | Native American peoples. |
| Caingang | Brazil (São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul) | Native American peoples. | |
| Cajun | United States (Louisiana) | 488,549 | French-Americans in Louisiana. See also Acadian. |
| Caldoche | New Caledonia | French people of New Caledonia; largest French national colony outside of France. | |
| Californio | United States (California), Mexico (Alta California) | 300,000 - 500,000 | Spanish-speaking inhabitants of the colonial Spanish/Mexican California and their descendants. |
| Cambodians | Cambodia | ~13,000,000 | |
| Campa | Bolivia | 25,000 - 45,000 | |
| Canaanites | Lebanon, Israel | 0 | Ancient people, unclear who their descendants are. |
| Canadians | Canada | 34,960,000 | |
| Canarians | Canary Islands | 1,547,611 | Berber based ethnic group. |
| Cantonese | China | 66,000,000 | Subgroup of Han chinese, people whose ancestral home is in Guangdong. Also called Yue. They form a significant proportion of Overseas Chinese. |
| Cape Coloured | South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe | 4,539,790 | Mixed-race population of the Western Cape province in South Africa. |
| Cape Malay | South Africa | 200,000 | Population descended from people of the Malay archipelago in the Western Cape province in South Africa. |
| Castilians | Spain | ~6,500,000 | Largest ethnic group of Spain, found in the Castile region; Also found in the Spanish diaspora. |
| Caprivian | Namibia | Inhabitants of the Caprivi Strip in northeastern Namibia. | |
| Caribs | Caribbean | 3,000 | Native American peoples of northern South America, the Lesser Antilles, and the east coast of Central America. |
| Carinthian Slovenes | Austria | ||
| Caripuna | |||
| Cascadian, members of the Cascadia (independence movement) belong to a culture of the Northwestern USA. | |||
| Catalans | Spain, France, Andorra | 8,000,000 | Also found in the Catalan-speaking diaspora around the world. |
| Catawba | United States (North Carolina, South Carolina) | 2,600 | Native American peoples. |
| Cayuga | United States (New York, Oklahoma), Canada (Ontario) | 86,000 | Native American peoples. |
| Cayuse | United States (Oregon, Washington) | 0 | Native American peoples. |
| Cebuano | Philippines | 20,000,000 | Also known as Cebu. |
| Celts | Ireland, United Kingdom, France (Brittany) | 0 | Ethno-linguistic group of tribal societies in Iron Age and Medieval Europe. |
| Ceylon Moors | Sri Lanka | 1,800,000 | People of Arab descent living in Sri Lanka. |
| Chagga | Tanzania | 2,000,000 | People of Bantu descent (Niger-Congo-B) living in Kilimanjaro Region in Tanzania. |
| Cham | Cambodia, Vietnam | 400,000 | People of Indonesian descent living in Cambodia and central Vietnam. |
| Chambri | Papua New Guinea | ||
| Chamalals | Russia (Dagestan) | 5,000 | |
| Chamorro | Guam, Northern Mariana Islands | 177,000 | Indigenous peoples. |
| Champenois-speaking people of Champagne-Ardenne of Northeastern France. | |||
| Charrúa | Uruguay, Brazil | 0 | Indigenous peoples; Now extinct. |
| Chechens | Russia (Chechnya) | 1,700,000 | |
| Chehalis | United States (Washington) | 691 | Native American peoples. |
| Chemehuevi | United States (Arizona, California) | 600 | Native American peoples. |
| Chepang | Nepal | 52,237 | |
| Cherokee | United States (North Carolina, Oklahoma) | 316,049 | Native American people originally of eastern and central Tennessee, most of Kentucky, southern West Virginia, western Virginia, northern Georgia (USA), northern Alabama, northwestern South Carolina, and western North Carolina, now mostly living in Oklahoma and North Carolina. |
| Cheyenne | United States (Montana, Oklahoma) | 15,672 | Native American peoples. |
| Chicanos | United States | 31,689,000 | United States citizens of Mexican origin. While some Mexican-Americans may embrace the term "Chicano", others prefer to identify themselves differently. |
| Chickahominy | United States (Virginia) | 972 | Native American people. |
| Chickasaw | United States | 38,000,000 | Native American people formerly of northeast Mississippi, west Tennessee, and northwest Alabama, now living in Oklahoma. |
| Chilcotin | Canada (British Columbia) | Native American peoples. | |
| Chileans | Chile | 17,094,275 | |
| Chilean American | United States | 113,934 | Chilean diaspora of the United States. |
| Chilean Australian | Australia | 33,626 | Chilean diaspora of Australia. |
| Chilean Swedes | Sweden | 42,396 | Chilean diaspora of Sweden. |
| Chimakum | United States (Washington) | 0 | Native America peoples. Now extinct. |
| Chinese | China | 1,310,158,851 | Also known as Han or Han Chinese. Dominant ethnic group of the People's Republic of China. |
| Chinese American | United States | 3,376,031 | Chinese diaspora of the United States. |
| Chinese Australian | Australia | 1,185,000 | Chinese diaspora of Australia. |
| Chinese Brazilian | Brazil | 151,649 | Chinese diaspora of Brazil. |
| Chinese Canadian | Canada | 1,364,215 | Chinese diaspora of Canada. |
| British Chinese | United Kingdom | 296,623 | Chinese diaspora of the United Kingdom. |
| Ethnic Chinese in Brunei | Brunei | 43,000 | Chinese diaspora of Brunei. |
| Chinese people in Bulgaria | Bulgaria | 10,000 | Chinese diaspora of Bulgaria. |
| Burmese Chinese | Burma | 1,637,540 | Chinese diaspora of Burma. |
| Chinese Cambodian | Cambodia | 1,180,000 | Chinese diaspora of Cambodia |
| Chinese people in Chile | Chile | 10,000 | Chinese diaspora of Chile. |
| Chinese-Costa Rican | Costa Rica | 45,000 | Chinese diaspora of Costa Rica. |
| Chinese Cuban | Cuba | 114,240 | Chinese diaspora of Cuba. |
| Chinese in Fiji | Fiji | 8,000 | Chinese diaspora of Fiji. |
| Chinese Filipino | Philippines | 1,146,250 | Chinese diaspora of the Philippines. |
| Chinese diaspora in France | France | 230,515 | Chinese diaspora of France. |
| Chinese Indonesian | Indonesia | 8,800,000 | Chinese diaspora of Indonesia. |
| Chinese people in Italy | Italy | 162,000 | Chinese diaspora of Italy. |
| Chinese Jamaican | Jamaica | 22,000 | Chinese diaspora of Jamaica. |
| Chinese people in Japan | Japan | 655,377 | Chinese diaspora of Japan. |
| Ethnic Chinese in Korea | South Korea, North Korea | 706,861 | Chinese diaspora of the Korean Peninsula. |
| Laotian Chinese | Laos | 185,765 | Chinese diaspora of Laos. |
| Malaysian Chinese | Malaysia | 6,590,500 | Chinese diaspora of Malaysia. |
| Chinese Mauritian | Mauritius | 38,500 | Chinese diaspora of Mauritius. |
| Chinese Mexican | Mexico | 23,000 | Chinese diaspora of Mexico. |
| Ethnic Chinese in Mongolia | Mongolia | 40,000 | Chinese diaspora of Mongolia. |
| Chinese New Zealander | New Zealand | 147,510 | Chinese diaspora of New Zealand. |
| Chinese Nicaraguan | Nicaragua | 12,000 | Chinese diaspora of Nicaragua. |
| Ethnic Chinese in Panama | Panama | 135,000 | Chinese diaspora of Panama. |
| Chinese Peruvian | Peru | 1,300,000 | Chinese diaspora of Peru. |
| Chinese of Romania | Romania | 2,243 | Chinese diaspora of Romania. |
| Ethnic Chinese in Russia | Russia | 998,000 | Chinese diaspora of Russia. |
| Chinese in Samoa | Samoa, American Samoa | 250 | Chinese diaspora of Samoa. |
| Chinese Singaporean | Singapore | 2,808,300 | Han Chinese in Singapore; Majority ethnic group of Singapore. |
| Chinese South Africans | South Africa | 350,000 | Chinese diaspora of South Africa. |
| Chinese people in Spain | Spain | 197,214 | diaspora of Spain. |
| Thai Chinese | Thailand | 7,053,240 | Chinese diaspora of Thailand. |
| Chinese in Tonga | Tonga | 3,000 | Chinese diaspora of Tonga. |
| Chinese Trinidadian | Trinidad and Tobago | 3,800 | Chinese diaspora of Trinidad and Tobago. |
| Chinookan | United States (Washington, Oregon) | Native American peoples. | |
| Chipewyan | Canada | 11,000 | Native American peoples. |
| Chippewa | United States (Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Montana), Canada (Great Lakes) | 219,711 | Native American peoples. |
| Chitimacha | United States (Louisiana) | 720 | Native American peoples. |
| Chitpavan | India (Maharashtra) | 497,000 | Smarta Brahmin community of Konkan. |
| Cho Ro | Vietnam | 22,567 | |
| Choctaw | United States (Oklahoma, California, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Alabama) | 160,000 | Native American people of Mississippi and Alabama, now mostly living in Oklahoma and Mississippi. |
| Chukchansi | United States (California) | 2,600 | Native American peoples. |
| Chukchis | Russia (Chukchi Peninsula) | 15,767 | Indigenous peoples. |
| Chulym Tatars | Russia (Tomsk Oblast) | 656 | Turkic peoples. |
| Chumash | United States (California) | 2,000 - 5,000 | Native American peoples. |
| Chuncho | Peru | Indigenous peoples. | |
| Chut | Vietnam (Quang Binh province) | 3,829 | |
| Chuukese people | Federated States of Micronesia | 53,280 | |
| Chuvash | Russia | 2,000,000 | Turkic peoples. |
| Ciboney | Cuba | 0 | Indigenous peoples; Now extinct. |
| Circassians or Cherkezians | Russia, Turkey | 7,000,000 - 9,000,000 | See also Adyghe. |
| Clayoquot | Canada (Vancouver, British Columbia) | 618 | Native American peoples. |
| Co people | |||
| Coalhuiltec | Native American peoples. | ||
| Co Ho people | Vietnam | ||
| Co Lao | |||
| Co Tu people | Vietnam (Thừa Thiên -Huế, Quảng Nam) | 61,588 | |
| Coast Salish | United States (Washington, Oregon), Canada (British Columbia) | ~18,000 | Native American peoples. |
| Cochiti | United States (Southwestern) | Native American peoples. | |
| Cocopah | United States (Arizona), Mexico (Baja California and Sonora) | 891 | Native American peoples. |
| Coeur d'Alene | United States (Rocky Mountains and Columbian Plateau) | 2,000 | Native American peoples. |
| Coharie | United States (North Carolina) | 2,632 | Native American peoples. |
| Colchians or Kolchians | Georgia | 0 | Ancient Mingrelians-Lazs who inhabited the west and southwest of the Transcaucasus region in prehistoric and historic times. |
| Colombians | Colombia | 50,000,000 | |
| Coloured | South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe | 4,539,790 | Mixed-race inhabitants of South Africa. See also Cape Coloured. |
| Colville | United States (Washington) | ~322 | Native American peoples; One of the Salish tribes. |
| Comanche | United States (Oklahoma, Texas, California, New Mexico) | 14,700 | Native American peoples. |
| Comorian | Comoros | 798,000 | |
| Cong | Laos, Thailand, Vietnam | 40,000 | See also Phunoi. |
| Congolese people | Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo | ||
| Copper | Native American peoples. | ||
| Copt | Egypt | 10,000,000 - 20,000,000 | Christian ethnoreligious group in Egypt. |
| Coquille | United States (Oregon) | Native American peoples. | |
| Corsicans | Corsica | 290,000 | |
| Cornish | United Kingdom | 534,300 | British people originating in Cornwall and the South West of Great Britain. |
| Cornish American | United States | 1,000,000 - 2,500,000 | Cornish diaspora in the United States. |
| Cornish Australian | Australia | 1,000,000 | Cornish diaspora in Australia. |
| Cossack | Russia, Ukraine | 2,500,000 - 7,000,000 | Predominantly East Slavic people inhabiting the lower Dnieper and Don basins. |
| Costanoan | United States (California) | 1,500 - 2,000 | Native American peoples; One of the Mission Indian peoples. |
| Coushatta | United States (Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma) | 1,520 | Native American peoples. See also Alabama. |
| Cowichan | Canada (Vancouver Island, British Columbia) | 4,000 | Native American peoples. |
| Cowlitz | United States (Washington) | Native American peoples; One of the Salish peoples. | |
| Cree | United States, Canada | 200,000 | Native American peoples. |
| Creek | United States (Alabama, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas) | 71,502 | Native American people originally of Alabama but now mostly residing in Oklahoma. |
| Créole | United States | People of Iberian or French ancestry in the Americas, or people of mixed Native American and European ancestry in Alaska. See Louisiana Creole people. | |
| Crimean Germans | Ukraine (Crimea) | 3,000 | Crimean people of German origin. |
| Crimean Goths | Ukraine (Crimea) | Gothic tribes who remained in the lands around the Black Sea, especially in Crimea. Almost no signs of the Crimean Goths exist today. | |
| Crimean Tatars | Ukraine | 248,200 | Turkic people of Crimea. |
| Croats | Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 4,462,171 | South Slavic peoples. |
| Croatian American | United States | 420,763 | Croatian diaspora in the United States. |
| Croatian Australian | Australia | 126,264 | Croatian diaspora in Australia. |
| Croatian Brazilian | Brazil | 45,000 | Croatian diaspora in Brazil. |
| Croatian Canadians | Canada | 110,880 | Croatian diaspora in Canada. |
| Croatian Chileans | Chile | 380,000 | Croatian diaspora in Chile. |
| Croatian-Peruvians | Peru | 6,000 | Croatian diaspora in Peru. |
| Crow | United States (Montana) | 12,000 | Native American peoples; One of the Sioux peoples. |
| Cubans | Cuba | 11,247,925 | |
| Cuban Americans | United States | 1,094,811 | Cuban diaspora in the United States. |
| Cumans | Eastern Europe, Caucasus | 0 | Historic nomadic Turkic peoples. |
| Cupeño | United States (California) | 1,000 | Native American peoples. |
| Curaçaoan | Curaçao | 142,180 | |
| Greek Cypriots | Cyprus | 1,150,000 | Ethnic Greek population in Cyprus. |
| Czechs | Czech Republic | 10,000,000 | Slavic people of central Europe, consisting of Bohemians and Moravians. |
| Czech American | United States | 1,462,000 | Czech diaspora in the United States. |
| Czechs in the United Kingdom | United Kingdom | 30,000 – 90,000 | Czech diaspora in the United Kingdom. |
| Czech Canadian | Canada | 98,090 | Czech diaspora in Canada. |
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