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25 largest peoples in the world by population

25 peoples, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, or type every one you can remember in Name all.

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The peoples

  1. 1Javanese
  2. 2Marathi
  3. 3Pashtuns
  4. 4Yoruba
  5. 5Hausa
  6. 6Igbo
  7. 7Berbers
  8. 8Akan
  9. 9Uyghurs
  10. 10Baloch
  11. 11Hui
  12. 12Zulu
  13. 13Manchu
  14. 14Kongo
  15. 15Miao
  16. 16Quechua
  17. 17Hazaras
  18. 18Yi
  19. 19Batak
  20. 20Bretons
  21. 21Tigray
  22. 22Minangkabau
  23. 23Tatars
  24. 24Santal
  25. 25Welsh

Population: Wikidata’s figure for the whole people (P1082; where it gives only one country’s figures, their sum), as each item dates it. Counts of peoples rest on censuses and self-identification and differ between sources; a people without a figure is left out. Peoples from Wikidata: indigenous peoples with articles in 18 or more Wikipedia editions and other ethnic groups with 45 or more; peoples of the past, umbrella groupings and the nations a sovereign state is named for are left out. Indigenous: an instance of indigenous people (Wikidata Q103817) or a kind of it. A people is a point at the centre of its homeland: Wikidata’s, else that of its language (Glottolog), else one set by hand for a few well-known peoples; it marks where a people lives, not a border. Names in the people’s own language count as answers (“Diné” for the Navajo).

On the map

Map of 25 largest peoples in the world by population, 25 peoples: each one marked on the globe

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