User:Jerome501/List of ethnic minorities by country

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Africa[edit]

Name Countries with significant minority populations Home country (if applicable) Population (total) Language Religion
Hutus  DR Congo,  Tanzania  Rwanda,  Burundi 11.5 million Rwandan, Rundi, French Catholicism
Shona  Mozambique  Zimbabwe 11,766,000 Shona, English Christianity, Animism
Sotho  South Africa  Lesotho 6,409,000 Sesotho Christianity, Animism
Swazis  South Africa  Swaziland 2.5 million Swati Animism, Christianity

Asia[edit]

Name Countries with significant minority populations Home country (if applicable) Population (total) Language Religion
Arabs  Iran,  Israel,  Turkey,  India  Arab League states 450 million Arabic Sunni, Shia, Sufism
Armenians  Azerbaijan ( Nagorno-Karabakh),  Georgia,  Turkey,  Greece,  Ukraine,  Lebanon,  Syria,  Iran  Armenia 8 million Armenian Armenian Orthodoxy
Azerbaijanis  Iran,  Russia,  Georgia  Azerbaijan 7 million Georgian Georgian Orthodoxy
Bengalis  India,  Burma (Rohingya),  Malaysia  Bangladesh 300 million Bengali Sunni, Hinduism
Burmese  Thailand  Burma 30 million Burmese Theravada Buddhism
Filipinos  China,  Malaysia  Philippines 118 million Filipino Catholicism, Sunni
Georgians  Russia,  Turkey,  Iran  Georgia 7 million Georgian Georgian Orthodoxy
Han Chinese  Thailand,  Malaysia,  Singapore,  Burma,  Cambodia,  Russia,  Indonesia,  Philippines,  South Korea,  Vietnam,  Japan,  India  China,  Taiwan 1.31 billion Chinese Confucianism, Mahayana Buddhism
Indonesians  Malaysia  Indonesia 265 million Indonesian Sunni, Hinduism
Japanese  China,  Philippines  Japan 130 million Japanese Mahayana Buddhism, Shintoism, n/a
Kazakhs  China,  Uzbekistan,  Russia,  Mongolia  Kazakhstan 15 million Kazakh Sunni
Khmers  Thailand,  Vietnam  Cambodia 12 million Khmer Theravada Buddhism
Koreans  China,  Japan,  Russia  South Korea,  North Korea 82.5 million Korean n/a
Kyrgyz  China,  Uzbekistan  Kyrgyzstan 4.5 million Kyrgyz Sunni
Malays  Singapore,  Thailand,  Indonesia  Malaysia,  Brunei 450 million Malay Sunni
Maldivians  India  Maldives 400,000 Maldivian Sunni
Mongols  China,  Russia  Mongolia 10 million Mongolian Tibetan Buddhism
Nepalis  India,  Bhutan  Nepal 31 million Nepali Buddhism, Hinduism
Ngalop  China,  India  Bhutan 708,500 Dzongkha Buddhism
Persians  Afghanistan,  Iraq,  Russia,  Turkey  Iran,  Tajikistan (tech.) 90 million Persian Shia
Tajiks  Afghanistan,  Pakistan,  Uzbekistan  Tajikistan 20 million Kyrgyz Sunni
Thais  Vietnam,  Laos,  Malaysia  Thailand 50.6 million Thai Therevada
Turkmens  Iran,  Afghanistan,  Iraq,  Uzbekistan, {{Flaglist|Pakistan}  Turkmenistan 12 million Turkmen Sunni
Uzbeks  Tajikistan,  Afghanistan,  Kyrgyzstan,  Kazakhstan,  Turkmenistan  Uzbekistan 30 million Uzbek Sunni
Vietnamese  Laos,  Cambodia  Vietnam 77 million Vietnamese Vietnamese folk religion, Buddhism

Europe[edit]

Name Countries with significant minority populations Home country (if applicable) Population (total) Language Religion
Albanians  Turkey,  Italy,  Macedonia,  Greece,  Montenegro  Albania,  Kosovo 12.2 million Albanian Sunni, Albanian Orthodoxy
Andalusians  Gibraltar ( UK)  Spain ( Andalusia) 17 million Spanish Catholicism
Basques  Spain,  France n/a ( Basque Country) 3 million Basque Catholicism
Belarusians  Russia,  Ukraine,  Latvia  Belarus 10.5 million Belarusian Catholicism, Orthodoxy
Bosnians  Turkey  Bosnia and Herzegovina 7 million Bosnian Sunni, Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism
Bulgarians  Turkey,  Greece,  Moldova,  Ukraine,  Romania  Bulgaria 11.3 million Bulgarian Bulgarian Orthodoxy
Catalans  Spain,  France  Andorra, ( Catalonia) 8.2 million Catalan Catholicism
Croats  Bosnia and Herzegovina,  Austria  Croatia 8.5 million Croatian Georgian Orthodoxy
Danes  Norway,  Germany  Denmark 5,602,628 Danish Catholicism
Dutch  South Africa (Afrikaners),  France  Netherlands 36.3 million Dutch, Afrikaans, Flemish Catholicism, Protestantism
English  New Zealand  UK ( England) 100 million English Anglicanism, Catholicism
Estonians  Finland,  Sweden  Estonia 1.5 million Estonian Catholicism, Lutheranism
Finns  Sweden,  Russia  Finland 7 million Finnish Catholicism, Lutheranism
French  Belgium,  Morocco,  Germany,  United Kingdom ( Guernsey/ Jersey),  United States,  Canada,  Italy,  Spain,  Switzerland,  Madagascar  France,  Monaco 109 million French Catholicism
Germans  Hungary,  Italy,  Poland,  Belgium,  Russia,  France,  United States,  Canada  Germany,  Liechtenstein,  Austria,  Switzerland 150 million German Catholicism, Protestantism
Greeks  Albania,  Ukraine,  Russia,  Italy  Greece,  Cyprus 17 million Greek Greek Orthodoxy
Hungarians  Romania,  Slovakia,  Serbia,  Ukraine  Hungary 14.7 million Hungarian Catholicism
Icelanders  Denmark  Iceland 450,000 Icelandic Lutheranism
Irish  UK ( Northern Ireland)  Ireland 80 million English, Irish Catholicism
Italians  France,  Switzerland,  Croatia  Italy,  San Marino 140 million Italian Catholicism
Luxembourgers  Belgium,  France,  Germany  Luxembourg 430,000 Luxembourgish, French, German Catholicism
Macedonians  Greece  Macedonia 2.2 million Macedonian Macedonian Orthodoxy
Montenegrins  Turkey  Montenegro 500,000 Montenegrin, Serbian Eastern Orthodoxy
Poles  Belarus,  Germany,  Russia,  Ukraine,  Czech Republic,  Lithuania  Poland 60 million Polish Catholicism
Portuguese  Spain,  Angola  Portugal 42 million Portuguese Catholicism
Russians  Ukraine ( Donetsk PR,  Luhansk PR),  Kazakhstan,  Belarus,  Latvia,  Moldova ( Transnistria),  Estonia,  Azerbaijan,  Finland,  Georgia ( South Ossetia,  Abkhazia)  Russia 150 million Russian Russian Orthodoxy
Serbs  Montenegro,  Kosovo,  Bosnia and Herzegovina,  Croatia  Serbia 10 million Serbian Serbian Orthodoxy
Slovaks  Czech Republic  Slovakia 7 million Slovak Catholicism
Slovenes  Italy  Slovenia 2.5 million Slovene Catholicism
Swedes  Finland  Sweden 8.4 million Swedish Lutheranism
Turks  Cyprus ( Northern Cyprus),  Greece,  Bulgaria,  Iraq,  Syria,  Russia,  Azerbaijan,  Kazakhstan  Turkey 69 million Turkish Sunni
Ukrainians  Russia,  Belarus,  Moldova  Ukraine 38 million Ukrainian Orthodoxy, Catholicism