Germany

The people of Germany are known as Germans. Foreigners began immigrating to find work in Germany in the late 1950s.

Germans

Ghana

The people of Ghana are called Ghanaians. There are more than twenty-five different languages spoken by the different groups in Ghana.

Ghanaians

Greece

The people of Greece are called Greeks. Minority groups include Turks, Macedonian Slavs, Albanians, Armenians, Bulgarians, and Vlachs (a group of semi-nomads who live in the mountains of the north).

Greeks

Grenada

The people of Grenada are called Grenadians. Blacks, together with those of mixed black and white ancestry, make up over 90 percent of the population.

Grenadians

Guatemala

The people of Guatemala are called Guatemalans. The population has a larger proportion of Amerindians (native people) than any other country in Central America.

Guatemalans

Guinea

The people of Guinea are called Guineans. There are about twenty-four ethnic groups.

Guineans

Fulani

Guyana

The people of Guyana are called Guyanans. A little more than half of the population is of Asian Indian descent.

Guyanans

Haiti

The people of Haiti are called Haitians. About 95 percent of the inhabitants are black, and 5 percent are mulatto (mixed black and white).

Haitians

Honduras

The people of Honduras are called Hondurans. The majority (more than 90 percent) are mestizo (mixture of white and Amerindian—native people).

Hondurans

Hungary

The people of Hungary are called Hungarians. The majority of the population are of Hungarian, or Magyar, descent.

Hungarians

Iceland

The population of Iceland is almost entirely descended from the original settlers from Norway in the late ninth and early tenth centuries.

Icelanders

India

With a total population approaching 1 billion, India is the second most populous nation on earth after China. Collectively, the people of India are called Indians or Asian Indians.

Indians

Andhras

Gonds

Gujaratis

Marathas

Oriya

Rajputs

Indonesia

Indonesia, with over 195 million inhabitants, is the fourth-most-populous country in the world (after China, India, and the United States.) Collectively, the people of Indonesia are called Indonesians. However, by one estimate, there are more than 250 distinct cultural groups (sukus) in Indonesia, speaking as many as 700 languages.

Indonesians

Asmat

Balinese

Javanese

Sundanese

Iran

The people of Iran are called Iranians. People who trace their descent to Iran, sometimes called Persians (a historical name for Iran), are nearly half the total population of Iran.

Iranians

Iraq

The people of Iraq are known as Iraqis. The Kurds, an Islamic non-Arab people, are the largest and most important minority group, constituting about 19 percent.

Iraqis

Ma'dan(Marsh Arabs)

Ireland

The people of Ireland are called Irish. Throughout history, Ireland has been inhabited by Celts, Norsemen, French Normans, and English, and these groups have been so intermingled that no purely ethnic divisions remain.

Irish

Israel

Of Israel's estimated population of 5.2 million, about 82 percent are Jews and 18 percent are non-Jews. Of the non-Jews, 76 percent are Muslims, 15 percent are Arab Christians, and 9 percent are Druzes or members of other ethnic groups.

Israelis

Palestinians

Italy

The people of Italy are called Italians. For centuries, the majority of Italy's people came from similar ethnic backgrounds.

Italians

Jamaica

The people of Jamaica are called Jamaicans. About 95 percent of the population is of partial or total African descent.

Jamaicans