Ethnic groups in Tanzania

The Swahili people (or Waswahili) are an ethnic and cultural group inhabiting the African Great Lakes region.

The Sandawe are an indigenous ethnic group of Southeast Africa, based in the Kondoa district of Dodoma Region in central Tanzania.

Nilotic peoples are peoples indigenous to the Nile Valley that speak Nilotic languages, which comprise a large sub-group of the Nilo-Saharan languages spoken in South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, and northern Tanzania.

The Bemba (or 'BaBemba' using the Ba- prefix to mean 'people of', and also called 'Awemba' or 'BaWemba' in the past) belong to a large group of Bantu peoples mainly in the Northern, Luapula and Copperbelt Provinces of Zambia who trace their origins to the Luba and Lunda states of the upper Congo basin, in what became Katanga Province in southern Congo-Kinshasa (DRC).

The Makonde are an ethnic group in southeast Tanzania and northern Mozambique.

The Taita people (the Wataita or Wadawida) are a Kenyan ethnic group located in the Taita-Taveta District.

The Kurya (also known as AbaKurya, as they prefer to call themselves) are a community of Bantu people who inhabit Kenya.

The Maasai (Kenyan English: [maˈsaːɪ]) are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting southern Kenya and northern Tanzania.

The Luo (also called Joluo or Jonagi/Onagi, singular Jaluo, Jaonagi or Joramogi/Nyikwaramogi, meaning Ramogi's heirs) are an ethnic group in western Kenya, northern Uganda, and in Mara Region in northern Tanzania.

The Luhya (also known as Abaluyia or Luyia) are a Bantu ethnic group in Kenya.

The Chaga (also called Wachaga, Chagga, Jagga, Dschagga, Waschagga, or Wachagga) are Bantu-speaking indigenous Africans and the third largest ethnic group in Tanzania.

The Hadza, or Hadzabe, are an indigenous ethnic group in north-central Tanzania, living around Lake Eyasi in the central Rift Valley and in the neighboring Serengeti Plateau.

The Fipa (or Wafipa) are an ethnic and linguistic group based in the Sumbawanga Rural and Nkasi districts of Rukwa Region in southwestern Tanzania speaking the Fipa and Mambwe languages.

The Iraqw or Irakw (also known as the Wambulu amongst Swahili speakers) are a Cushitic-speaking ethnic group inhabiting the Great Lakes region of East Africa.

The Sukuma are a Bantu ethnic group inhabiting the southeastern African Great Lakes region.

The Bena are a large ethnic and linguistic group based in the Iringa Region of south-central Tanzania who speak the Bantu Bena language.

The Nyamwezi, or Wanyamwezi, are one of the Bantu groups of Southeast Africa and the second-largest of over 120 ethnic groups in Tanzania.

The Yao people, Wayao, are a major Bantu ethnic and linguistic group based at the southern end of Lake Malawi, which played an important part in the history of Southeast Africa during the 19th century.

The Ngoni people are an ethnic group living in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia, in southeast-central Africa.

The Bembe are an ethnic and linguistic group based in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Tanzania.

The Okiek (Ogiek: [oɡiɛk]), sometimes called the Ogiek or Akiek (although the term Akiek sometimes refers to a distinct subgroup), are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Northern Tanzania, Southern Kenya (in the Mau Forest), and Western Kenya (in the Mount Elgon Forest).

The Pogoro (also Pogolo) are an ethnic and linguistic peoples based in Iringa Region and Morogoro Region, Tanzania.

The Sonjo (native name Batemi) are an ethnic and lingusitic group inhabiting living some 30-40 miles west of Lake Natron in Arusha Region, Tanzania.

Taveta is the name of a tribe of Southeast Africa, the name of the principal town in the land of the Taveta people, and also the name of the surrounding subdistrict of Kenya.

The Nena people are an African tribe first encountered in the last quarter of the 19th century in the north-east Livingstone Mountains in what is now Tanzania by two different European travellers.

The Haya are an ethnic and linguistic group based in the Bukoba District, Muleba District and Karagwe District of Kagera Region in northwestern Tanzania, East Africa.

The Lambya, also known as the Nkoya, are an ethnic and linguistic group based along the border of northwestern Malawi and in Mbeya Region, Tanzania.

White Tanzanian is a term which can apply to people from Tanzania who are of European, White African's or Arab descent and who do not regard themselves, or are not regarded as, being part of another racial group.

The Lungu people (also known as Rungu or Tabwa) are an ethnic and linguistic group living primarily on the southwestern shores of Lake Tanganyika, on the Marungu massif in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and in southwestern Tanzania and northeastern Zambia.

The Mambwe are an ethnic and linguistic group from Rukwa Region, Tanzania and northeastern Zambia.

This is a list of ethnic groups in Tanzania.

The Nyakyusa (also called the Sokile, Ngonde or Nkonde) are an African ethnic and linguistic group who live in the fertile mountains of southern Tanzania and northern Malawi—former German East Africa.

There are currently over 50,000 people of Indian origin in Tanzania.

The Meru (waMeru), also known as the Rwa, are a Chaga-speaking Tanzanian ethnic and linguistic group native to the slopes of Mount Meru in Arusha Region.

Dorobo (or Ndorobo, Wadorobo, Wandorobo, Torobo) is a derogatory umbrella term for several unrelated hunter-gatherer groups of Kenya and Tanzania that are subservient to the Maasai and have no cattle.

The Kinga are an ethnic and linguistic group from Njombe Region, Tanzania, in the great Kipengere Range (formerly known as Livingstone Mountains) northeast of Lake Malawi.

The Kami are an ethnic and linguistic group in Morogoro Region, Tanzania.

The Akie (sometimes called Mosiro, which is an Akie clan name) are a Tanzanian ethnic and linguistic peoples living in western Arusha Region.

The Pare (pronounced "Pahray") people are members of an ethnic group indigenous to the Pare Mountains of northern Tanzania, part of the Kilimanjaro Region.

The Nyambo, or Ragwe, are a Bantu ethnic and linguistic group based in the Karagwe District of Kagera Region in far northwestern Tanzania.

The Pangwa are an ethnic and linguistic group based in the Kipengere Range on the eastern shore of Lake Malawi, in the Ludewa District of Njombe Region in southern Tanzania.

The Alagwa or Chasi are an ethnic group based in the Kondoa district of the Dodoma Region in central Tanzania.

The Dhaiso, or Daiso, are an ethnic and linguistic group based at the foot of the Usambara Mountains in the Muheza District of Tanga Region in northeastern Tanzania.

The Kahe are an ethnic and linguistic group based southeast of Moshi in Kilimanjaro Region Tanzania.

The Ndali are an ethnic and linguistic group from Mbeya Region, Tanzania and northern Malawi.

The Pimbwe are an ethnic and linguistic group based in the Rukwa Region of western Tanzania, in the neighbourhood of Mpimbwe to the northwest of Lake Rukwa

Before the coming of the Ngoni, an African group along the coast, the southern highlands had no political unit larger than clan chiefdom.