What ethnic group does not have its own nation?

Stateless nations can have large populations; for example the Kurds have an estimated population of over 30 million people, which make them one of the largest stateless nations.

What are the 5 largest stateless nations?

We visit five prominent stateless nations to find out how they got that way.

1. Kurds.
2. Rohingya.
3. Palestinians.
4. Roma.
5. Hmong, Karen and Other Ethnic Minorities in Thailand.

What is the largest nation of people without their own state?

The Kurds, numbering an estimated 20 million Kurds, are commonly seen as the world’s largest nation without a state. About 10 million are in Turkey, 4 million in Iraq, 5 million in Iran and a million in Syria. There may be another million in the former Soviet Union.

What are the largest ethnic groups in the world?

The world’s largest ethnic group is Han Chinese, with Mandarin being the world’s most spoken language in terms of native speakers. The world’s population is predominantly urban and suburban, and there has been significant migration toward cities and urban centres.

What is the largest ethnic group in the Middle East?

The largest ethnic group in the Middle East are Arabs with Turks, Turkomans, Persians, Kurds, Azeris, Copts, Jews, Assyrians, Maronites, Circassians, Somalis, Armenians, Druze and numerous additional minor ethnic groups forming other significant populations.

What is the largest ethnic group in southwest Asia?

❖ Arabs are the largest ethnic group in the Middle East, living throughout North Africa and Southwest Asia.

Which group is the largest stateless nation in the world?

The Kurds are among the largest stateless ethnic groups in the world, with some 30 million concentrated in an area straddling Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria. A minority in all four countries, the Kurds speak their own language, with several dialects.

What are the 4 major ethnic groups in the Middle East?

The largest ethnic groups in the region are Arabs, Egyptians, Kurds, Persians, Turks, Azerbaijanis, Armenians and Georgians but there are dozens of other ethnic groups which have hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of members.

What are the three largest ethnic groups in the Middle East?

Mixing with the earlier inhabitants of the region, they produced the peoples that make up the Middle East today. They can be classified into three main ethnic groups–Arabs, Turks, and Iranians.

What are the 3 main ethnic groups in Southwest Asia?

This week we are learning about three of the major ethnic groups of Southwest Asia: Arabs, Persians, and Kurds.

Are there any ethnic groups that do not have a nation-state?

In France, besides the obvious cases of the Bretons and the Basques, there are also Savoyards, Occitans and Alsatians who do not have their nation states. True, overwhelming majority of them consider themselves French but they can be considered ethnic groups.

What is the largest ethnic group in the world?

That said, the largest commonly identified ethnic group that is not a majority in any country worldwide is probably Punjabis, who number around 131 million and make up 45\% of the population of Pakistan. Edit: see discussion in comments about whether Punjabis are an ethnicity.

Who are the most stateless nations?

The Kurdish people are probably the best-known ( and largest) stateless nation, but you’ve probably also heard of other stateless groups, like the persecuted Rohingya in Myanmar and the Palestinians. We visit five prominent stateless nations to find out how they got that way. 1. Kurds

What is a nation without a state called?

Nations without state are classified as fourth-world nations. Some of the stateless nations have a history of statehood, some were always a stateless nation, dominated by another nation.