Tajikistan to Zimbabwe

Tajikistan

The people of Tajikistan are called Tajiks. People who trace their ancestry to Tajikistan are 62 percent of the population, and include the Pamiri or Mountain Tajiks.

Tanzania

The people of Tanzania are called Tanzanians. Approximately 95 percent of Tanzanians may be roughly classified as Bantu peoples (including the Shambaa).

Thailand

The people of Thailand are called Thai. There are more than 30 ethnic groups, each with its own history, language, religion, appearance, and patterns of livelihood.

Trinidad and Tobago

The population of Trinidad is estimated to be 43 percent black, 40 percent Indian, 14 percent of mixed descent, 1 percent European, and 2 percent Chinese and other. Tobago is predominantly black.

Tunisia

The people of Tunisia are called Tunisians. The population is almost entirely of Arab descent.

Turkey

The people of Turkey are called Turks. About 85 percent of the population traces their ancestry to Turkey.

Turkmenistan

The people of Turkmenistan are called Turkmens or Turkomans. Over 70 percent of the population are Turkmens.

The Baganda, who populate the northern shore of Lake Victoria, constitute the largest single ethnic group in Uganda (about 17 percent of the total population). Ten other main ethnic groups, each accounting for between 3 and 12 percent of Uganda's population, together make up 60 percent of the total.

Ugandans

Baganda

Banyankole

Ukraine

The people of Ukraine are called Ukrainians. About 75 percent of the population traces their origins to the Ukraine.

Ukrainians

United Arab Emirates

South Asians (Asian Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, and Sri Lankans) account for about 45 percent of the population of the UAE, followed by Arabs (about 33 percent), and Iranians (17 percent). Westerners (Americans and Western Europeans) account for about 5 percent.

Emirians

United Kingdom

The people of the United Kingdom are called British or English, Welsh, Scots, and Irish. Over 90 percent of United Kingdom residents are native-born.

English

Scots

Welsh

Uruguay

The inhabitants of Uruguay are primarily (about 88 percent) white and of European origin, mostly Spanish and Italian; a small percentage is descended from Portuguese, English, and other Europeans. Mestizos (mixed white and Amerindian lineage) represent 8 percent of the population, and blacks and mulattoes (mixed black and white) about 4 percent.

Uruguayans

Uzbekistan

It is estimated that about 70 percent of the population is Uzbek. Russians constitute 8 percent; Tajiks, 5 percent; Kazaks, 4 percent; Tatars, 3 percent; and Karakalpaks, 2 percent.

Uzbeks

Karakalpaks

Vanuatu

Nearly 95 percent of the total population of Vanuatu is of Melanesian origin. Minority groups include Europeans (mostly French) and other Pacific Islanders.

Ni-Vanuatu

Venezuela

The original inhabitants of Venezuela were Amerindians, mainly Caribs and Arawaks. The bulk (about 68 percent) of the present population is mestizo (mixed race); an estimated 21 percent is unmixed white, 8–10 percent is black, and 2 percent is Amerindian.

Venezuelans

Guajiros

Pemon

Vietnam

About 87 percent of the population of Vietnam is composed of ethnic Vietnamese. In addition to the ethnic Vietnamese, there are fifty-three other ethnic groups living in Vietnam.

Vietnamese

Cham

Western Samoa

Samoans comprise almost 93 percent of the total population of Western Samoa. Samoans also account for 89 percent of the population of neighboring American Samoa, a territory of the United States.

Samoans

Yemen

Since independence, the population has been almost entirely Arab. Many ethnologists contend that the purest "Arab" stock is to be found in Yemen.

Yemenis

Zambia

The people of Zambia are called Zambians. Seventy ethnic groups live in Zambia, including the Bemba (37 percent) and Tonga (19 percent).

Zambians

Bemba

Tonga

Zimbabwe

Zimbabweans are mainly related to the two major Bantu-speaking groups, the Shona (about 77 percent of the population) and the Ndebele (about 18 percent). Europeans in Zimbabwe are almost entirely either immigrants from the United Kingdom or South Africa or their descendants.