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A stateless nation is an ethnic group or nation that does not possess its own sovereign state. The term stateless implies that the group has the right to self-determination, to establish an independent nation with its own government.
- Kurds. If Kurdistan were its own country, it would extend across 193,000 square miles (500,000 square kilometers) currently within the borders of southeastern Turkey, northern Iraq, northern Syria and northwestern Iran.
- Rohingya. The Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh is the largest of its kind in the world, home to more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees from neighboring Myanmar (formerly Burma).
- Palestinians. This one is a bit tricky. Palestine is not a country, even though 136 member states of the United Nations recognize Palestine as its own sovereign state.
- Roma. Better known by the derogatory term "gypsies," the Romani or Roma people have suffered ethnic persecution in Europe for centuries. The first Roma migrated from Northern Indian between the 13th and 15th centuries, and the Romani language still shares many words in common with Hindi.
There are a few trends you can see right away: countries in Europe and Northeast Asia tend to be the most homogenous, sub-Saharan African nations the most diverse. The Americas are generally...
The largest ethnic groups are the Russians, with 117 million, and the Germans, with 72 million.
There are some 160 culturally distinct groups in Europe, including a number of groups in the Caucasus region that have affinities with both Asia and Europe. Each of these large groups exhibits two significant features.
Ethnic groups in the country are the French and native minorities such as Corsicans, Bretons, Basques, Jews and Alsatians. In addition, numerous immigrants and their descendants live in France, including from Europe ( Italians , Spaniards , Portuguese , Romanians ), North Africa ( Algerians , Tunisians , Moroccans ), Sub-Saharan Africa ...
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Europeans are the focus of European ethnology, the field of anthropology related to the various ethnic groups that reside in the states of Europe. Groups may be defined by common ancestry, common language, common faith, etc.
