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While some countries make classifications based on broad ancestry groups or characteristics such as skin color (e.g., the white ethnic category in the United States and some other countries), other countries use various ethnic, cultural, linguistic, or religious factors for classification. Ethnic groups may be subdivided into subgroups, which ...
A 2007 study on the genetic history of Europe found that the most important genetic differentiation in Europe occurs on a line from the north to the south-east (northern Europe to the Balkans), with another east–west axis of differentiation across Europe, separating the indigenous Basques, Sardinians and Sami from other European populations ...
The lists are commonly used in economics literature to compare the levels of ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious fractionalization in different countries. [1] [2] Fractionalization is the probability that two individuals drawn randomly from the country's groups are not from the same group (ethnic, religious, or whatever the criterion is).
Rank (by population size) People: Population (million people) 1. Russians (Europe and Asia): 122 2. Germans (i.e. German-speakers, including Germans, Austrians ...
Ethnic groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina (11 C, 21 P) Ethnic groups in Bulgaria (12 C, 35 P) C. ... Category: Ethnic groups in Europe by country. 39 languages ...
Ethnic groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (26 C, 94 P) Ethnic groups in Denmark (10 C, 15 P) Ethnic groups in Djibouti (2 C, 6 P)
Ancient tribal groups are to be included under Category:Historical ethnic groups of Europe only. Subcategories This category has the following 27 subcategories, out of 27 total.
In some countries such as the United Kingdom, France and Spain, the designation of nationality may controversially take on ethnic aspects, subsuming smaller ethnic groups such as Scots, Welsh, Cornish, Northern Irish, Bretons, Catalans, and Basques, making it difficult to quantify a "British" or "French" ethnicity, for example.