Ethnic groups in Asia

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Asian people
Total population
4,533,765,005
59.4% of the total world population
(World population of 7.5 billion)
Southeast Asians (Eastern Asians)[2]
 China (PRC)1,384,688,986[3]
 India1,296,834,042[4]
 Indonesia262,787,403[5]
 Pakistan238,181,034[6]
 Bangladesh164,098,818[7]
 Japan126,168,156[8]
 Philippines100,006,900[9]
 Vietnam97,040,334[10]
 Thailand68,615,858[11]
 Myanmar57,069,099[12]
 South Korea51,418,097[13]
   Nepal30,424,878[14]
 North Korea25,831,360[15]
 Taiwan (ROC)23,545,963[16]
 Sri Lanka23,044,123[17]
 Kazakhstan18,744,548[18]
 Cambodia17,288,489[19]
 Hong Kong (SAR)7,213,338[20]
 Singapore5,996,000[21]
West Asia (Western Asians)
 
others

The ancestral population of modern

Northern China
.

Migrations of distinct

Australo-Melanesians.[35][36][37][38]

In terms of

Western Asia. The ethnic groups have adapted to mountains, deserts, grasslands, and forests, while on the coasts of Asia
, resident ethnic groups have adopted various methods of harvest and transport. The types of diversity in Asia are cultural, religious, economic and historical.

Ethnological map of the Pamirs

Some groups are primarily

European peoples
began in the late 1st millennium BCE, reaching its peak in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

History

Central Asia

Main article:
Ethnic groups in Central Asia
Ethnic map of Central Asia

Mongolic
peoples comprise its general ethnicities.

The main religions of Central Asia are

Sarmatian, and Mongolian
cultures.

The

Central Asian cuisine is one of the most prominent cuisines of Asia, with cuisines from Pakistan, India, China and Azerbaijan showing significant influence from the foods of Central Asia. One of the most famous Central Asian foods is kebab
.

The literature of Central Asia is linked with

Arabian
literary works.

East Asia

Main article: East Asian people
Ethnolinguistic map of China

Manchus, Ryukyuan, Ainu, Zhuang, Mongols, and other Mongolic peoples.[60][61] Ancestral East Asians are, based on archaeogenetic data, suggested to have originated in Mainland Southeast Asia, and expanded outgoing from Southern China in multiple waves northwards and southwards respectively.[62][63]

The major East Asian language families are the

Mon–Khmer.[68]

Throughout the ages, the greatest

Greco-Roman civilization on Europe and the Western World.[75] Major characteristics exported by China towards Japan and Korea include shared Chinese-derived language characteristics, as well as similar social and moral philosophies derived from Confucianist thought.[76][74][77]

The script of the Han Chinese characters has long been a unifying feature in East Asia as the vehicle for exporting Chinese culture to its East Asian neighbors.[77] Chinese characters became the unifying language of bureaucratic politics and religious expression in East Asia.[77] The Chinese script was passed on first to Korea, Vietnam in the 1st century, then to Japan, where it forms a major component of the Japanese writing system. In Korea, Sejong the Great invented the hangul alphabet in 1443, which later became the main orthographic system for the Korean language in the 19th century.[78] In Japan, much of the Japanese language is written in hiragana and katakana in addition to Chinese characters.[76]

North Asia

Main article: Indigenous peoples of Siberia
Distribution of the Uralic, Altaic, and Yukaghir languages

Paleo-Siberian
" peoples, with most of these ethnic groups being composed of nomads or people with a nomadic history.

The geographic region of

expansion of its territory however, took control of the region now known as Siberia, and thus today it is under Russian rule
. There are roughly 33 million people in North Asia.

South Asia

Main article: South Asian ethnic groups
Language families in South Asia
Traditional Rajasthani garments from Jaipur, Rajasthan

Baluchistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa share a greater Iranian heritage and while the provinces of Sindh share a more Indo-Aryan culture. Iranian is most prevalent in Afghanistan, with significant Turkic
speakers.

Regions of Nepal and parts of the Indian states and territories of Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Sikkim, and Uttarakhand have cultural similarity to Tibet, Tibetan Buddhism being the dominant religion there. Finally the Northeast Indian states of Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, and tribal groups of Assam and Tripura have cultural affinities with Southeast Asia.

Bhutanese are often referred to in their literature as "Bhote" (people of Bhutia/Bhotia or Tibet). They follow Tibetan Buddhism to and it is a dominant political and cultural element in modern

Tibetan
.

subcontinent. Islam and Christianity also have significant region-specific histories. While India and Nepal have a majority of people following Hinduism, Sri Lanka and Bhutan have a majority of Buddhists alongside Hinduism. Islam
is the second largest religion after Hinduism with Muslim countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh.

North East India. Austroasiatic languages are spoken in certain northern and eastern areas of Bangladesh, parts of Nepal and scattered across different zones of India mostly concentrated around Chota Nagpur Plateau and the state of Meghalaya. Iranian languages are most prevalent in Afghanistan and western Pakistan. Turkic speakers are significant in Afghanistan and due to the Afghan diaspora in parts of Pakistan
as well.

Southeast Asia

Main article: Ethnic groups of Southeast Asia

Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam; and Maritime Southeast Asia, which includes Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, East Malaysia, the Philippines, and Singapore. China has historically influenced the region more than India, most notably through the large Chinese populations
in many of the countries of the region.

Demographically, Southeast Asia has had little Western immigration, although Western influence still exists due to the lasting legacy of

United States of America
over the course of almost four centuries of colonisation.

A common feature found around the region is

Buddhist
literature.

West Asia

Main article: Ethnic groups in the Middle East
Caucasian, Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) and Indo-European
families.
A Jewish man blows a shofar
Traditional costumes of (from right to left) a Christian resident of Famagusta, a Christian woman of Famagusta, and an Orthodox monk of the Monastery of Tchiko, near Lefka. Photographed in Cyprus in 1873.

West Asia is sometimes referred to as "Southwest Asia". West Asia consists of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Cyprus, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, most of Turkey, and part of Egypt.

Culturally, the region's dominant ethnic groups are

Persian (about 50 million) and Kurds (about 35 million). Other indigenous minorities include Jews (6.2 million), Assyrians (about 400,000), Armenians (about 4.5 million), Azerbaijanis (about 40 million), Mandaeans, Yazidis, Circassians, Greeks, and others. Many of the West Asian countries contain expansive deserts, and thus many nomadic groups exist today, most notably the Bedouin
Arabs.

Other minorities and migrant groups

Europeans, Russian nationals, North Americans, and South Americans

An Indonesian Balinese girl wearing a kebaya during a traditional ceremony
A woman in Nepalese costume

At least 21 million of European, Russian, North American and South American nationalities and heritage live in Asia, representing 0.45% of the total population of Asia. The following is a list of people with such ancestry and nationality, including people of mixed heritage of part Asian and part European/North American/South American, living in Asian countries, also showing the main country of origin.

 Philippines 5 million (Spain, 4.7% of total population)[citation needed]

 Kazakhstan 3.5 million (Russia, 19% of total population)[80]

 India 1.7 million (United Kingdom, 0.12% of total population)[81][82]

 Kyrgyzstan 837,000 (Russia, 13.5% of total population)[83]

 Uzbekistan 750,000 (Russia, 2.3% of total population)[84]

 United Arab Emirates 461,000 (United Kingdom, 4.9% of total population)[85][86]

 Turkmenistan 297,913 (Russia, 5.1% of total population)[87]

 Thailand 250,000 (United Kingdom, 0.36% of total population)[88]

 South Korea 245,000 (United States, 0.48% of total population)[89]

 Hong Kong 218,209 (United States, 3.1% of total population)[90][91][92]

 Indonesia 189,000 (Netherlands, 0.071% of total population)[93][94]

 Pakistan 149,253 (United Kingdom, 0.07% of total population)[95]

 Syria 120,000 (Russia, 0.7% of total population)[96]

 Azerbaijan 119,300 (Russia, 1.2% of total population)[97]

 Qatar 115,000 (United States, 4.3% of total population)[98]

 Bangladesh 110,138 (United States, 0.06% of total population)[99]

 Cyprus 109,462 (United Kingdom, 9.1% of total population)[100]

 Japan 106,000 (United States, 0.08% of total population)[101]

 Saudi Arabia 100,000 (United States, 0.3% of total population)[102]

 Singapore 76,900 (United Kingdom, 1.3% of total population)[103][104]

 Tajikistan 68,200 (Russia, 1.1% of total population)[83]

 Jordan 65,000 (Russia, 0.67% of total population)[105]

 Iran 50,000 (Russia, 0.061% of total population)[106]

 Malaysia 37,000 (Portugal, 0.11% of total population)[107]

 Georgia 26,453 (Russia, 0.7% of total population)[108]

 Lebanon 25,000 (United States, 0.41% of total population)[108]

 Taiwan 21,000 (United States, 0.09% of total population)[109]

 Myanmar 19,200 (United Kingdom, 0.035% of total population)[110]

 Oman 16,349 (United Kingdom, 0.39% of total population)[111]

 Bahrain 15,000 (United Kingdom, 1% of total population)[112]

 Afghanistan 13,000 (United States, 0.037% of total population)[113]

 Kuwait 13,000 (United States, 0.031% of total population)[114]

 Macau 13,000 (Portugal, 2.3% of total population)[115]

 Armenia 11,911 (Russia, 0.4% of total population)[116]

 Sri Lanka 8,856 (Italy, 0.04% of total population)[117]

 Iraq 6,000 (United States, 0.015% of total population)[114]

 Mongolia 3,000 (Russia, 0.1% of total population)[118]

   Nepal 3,000 (United States, 0.01% of total population)[119]

 Vietnam 2,700 (United States, 0.002% of total population)[120]

 North Korea 2,045 (United States, 0.008% of total population)[121]

 Maldives 1,117 (Germany, 0.25% of total population)[122]

 Cambodia 1,000 (France, 0.006% of total population)[123][124]

 Yemen 1,000 (United States, 0.003% of total population)[125][126]

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