List of indigenous peoples

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Main article: indigenous peoples

This is a selected list of the world's indigenous peoples. For guidelines on what should be included or excluded in this listing, see this article's Talk page.

Note that this is a listing of peoples, groups and communities. It is not a list of individual persons who may be considered or recognised as indigenous.

This list is grouped by region, and sub-region. Note that a particular group may warrant listing under more than one region, either because the group is distributed in more than one region (example: Inuit in North America and eastern Russia), or there may be some overlap of the regions themselves (that is, the boundaries of each region are not always clear and some locations may commonly be associated with more than one region).

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[edit] Africa

The continent of Africa, including associated islands such as Madagascar, but excluding Arabia.

[edit] Central Africa

Central Africa generally includes the lands mainly of the Congo River basin, south of the Sahara and west of the Great Rift Valley.

[edit] East Africa

East Africa generally includes the Horn of Africa region and (parts of) surrounding countries.

[edit] North Africa

North Africa generally includes African countries with borders on the Mediterranean Sea and northern Red Sea and Atlantic Ocean, bounded largely by the Sahara Desert to the south.

[edit] Southern Africa

Southern Africa generally includes lands from the Cape of Good Hope northwards to the borders of Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania, and islands such as Madagascar.

[edit] West Africa

West Africa generally includes the region bounded by the Sahara Desert to the north and the Gulf of Guinea to the south.

[edit] Americas

the Americas is the continent (or supercontinent) comprising North and South America, and associated islands.

Main article: Indigenous peoples of the Americas
Further information: List of Native American Tribal Entities

[edit] The Caribbean

the Caribbean, or West Indies, generally includes the island chains of the Caribbean Sea.

[edit] Central America and Mexico

Central America generally includes the part of the North American (sub-)contintent from southern Mexico to and including Panama, this section includes indigenous peoples of Mexico.

[edit] North America

North America generally includes Greenland, Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the eastern Aleutian Islands.

[edit] South America

South America generally includes all of the (sub-)continent and islands south of the Isthmus of Panama.

Urarina shaman, 1988
Urarina shaman, 1988

[edit] Asia

The (sub-)continent of Asia, including related islands, the Indian subcontinent, Central Asian Republics, the Middle East and Arabia.

[edit] Central Asia

Central Asia generally includes the landlocked region east of the Caspian Sea, south of the Russian Taiga, to the Himalayas, and extending eastwards to Mongolia and the western Chinese provinces and autonomous regions.

[edit] East Asia

East Asia generally includes the People's Republic of China (except perhaps province of Qinghai and the western autonomous regions of Tibet and Xinjiang), the Korean Peninsula, and the associated Pacific islands, principally Japan and Taiwan.

[edit] North Asia

North Asia generally includes the Russian Far East and the northern and eastern parts of Siberia.

[edit] South Asia

South Asia generally includes the Indian subcontinental region, the Himalayan states and related islands of the Indian Ocean.

[edit] Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia generally includes the mainland region sometimes known as Indochina, and the Malay archipelago.

[edit] Southwest Asia

Southwest Asia generally includes the region (formerly Persia) westwards of Pakistan, the Arabian peninsula, the Middle East or Levant or Eretz Israel, Mesopotamia, the Caucasus region and Anatolia.

[edit] Circumpolar North

The Circumpolar North generally includes the lands surrounding the Arctic Circle.

[edit] Europe

Europe generally refers to the mass of the Eurasian peninsula westwards of the Ural Mountains, the islands of the Mediterranean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean.

[edit] Oceania

Oceania includes most islands of the Pacific Ocean, New Guinea and the continent of Australia.

[edit] Australia

Australia includes the continental landmass, and associated islands.

Further information: List of Indigenous Australian group names

[edit] Melanesian

Melanesian generally includes New Guinea and other (far-)western Pacific islands from the Arafura Sea out to Fiji.

[edit] Micronesia

Micronesia generally includes the various small island chains of the western and central Pacific.

[edit] Polynesia

Polynesia generally includes New Zealand and thus islands of the central and southern Pacific Oceans

[edit] References

  1. ^ Rouse, Irving 1992. The Tainos. Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus. Yale University Press. New Haven and London.

[edit] See also

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