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Ethnic groups in Ukraine

Ethnic groups in Ukraine

  • Poleshuks
    Poleshuks (West Polesian: Полэшукы/Poleshuki, Ukrainian: Поліщуки/Polishchuki, Belarusian: Паляшуки/Palyashuki, Russian: Poleszczuki/Poleshchuki, Polish: Poleszucy) is the name given to the people who populated the swamps of Polesia (Polesie, also Polissia).
  • Armenians in Ukraine
    Armenians in Ukraine are ethnic Armenians who live in Ukraine.
  • Moldovans in Ukraine
    Moldovans in Ukraine are the third biggest minority recorded in the 2001 All Ukrainian Census after Russians and Belarusians.
  • Belarusians in Ukraine
    Belarusians in Ukraine is the second biggest minority after Russians.
  • Serbs in Ukraine
    Ukrainian Serbs (Serbian: Украјински Срби / Ukrajinski Srbi) are the citizens of Ukraine who are of Serbian origin.
  • Koryo-saram
    Koryo-saram (Cyrillic: Корё сарам, Hangul: 고려사람) is the name which ethnic Koreans in the post-Soviet states use to refer to themselves.
  • Azerbaijanis in Ukraine
    Azerbaijan and Ukraine relations took through centuries and both countries used to be the part of Russian Empire and then Soviet Union.
  • History of the Jews in Ukraine
    Jewish communities have existed in the territory of Ukraine from the time of Kievan Rus' (one of Kiev city gates was called Judaic) and developed many of the most distinctive modern Jewish theological and cultural traditions such as Hasidism.
  • Chukchi people
    The Chukchi, Eskimos of Western Chukotka (Russian: чукчи (plural), чукча (singular)) are an indigenous people inhabiting the Chukchi Peninsula and the shores of the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea region of the Arctic Ocean within the Russian Federation.
  • Jews
    The Jews (/dʒuːz/; Hebrew: יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3 Yehudim, Israeli pronunciation [jehuˈdim]), also known as the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group originating from the Israelites, or Hebrews, of the Ancient Near East.
  • Koryaks
    Koryaks (or Koriak) are an indigenous people of the Russian Far East, who live immediately north of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Kamchatka Krai and inhabit the coastlands of the Bering Sea.
  • Romani people
    The Romani (also spelled Romany; /ˈroʊməni/, /ˈrɒ-/), or Roma, are a traditionally nomadic ethnic group, living mostly in Europe and the Americas and originating from the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent, presumably from where the states Rajasthan, Haryana, and Punjab exist today.
  • Mari people
    The Mari (Mari: мари, Russian: марийцы), are a Finno-Ugric ethnic group, who have traditionally lived along the Volga and Kama rivers in Russia.
  • Hutsuls
    Hutsuls (Ukrainian: гуцули, hutsuly; Polish: Hucuł, plural Huculi, Hucułowie; Romanian: huțul, plural huțuli) are an ethno-cultural group of Ukrainians, who for centuries have inhabited the Carpathian mountains, mainly in Ukraine and in the northern extremity of Romania (in the areas of Bukovina and Maramureş).
  • Lemkos
    Lemkos (Ukrainian: Лeмки, Polish: Łemkowie, Lemko: Лeмкы, translit. Lemky; sing. Лeмкo, Lemko) are one of Ukrainian small ethnic sub-groups inhabiting a stretch of the Carpathian Mountains known as Lemkivshchyna.
  • Polans (eastern)
    The Polans (Polish: Polanie; Ukrainian: Поляни Polyany; Russian: Поляне Polyane); also Polianians; were a Slavic tribe between the 6th and the 9th century, which inhabited both sides of the Dnieper river from Liubech to Rodnia and also down the lower streams of the rivers Ros', Sula, Stuhna, Teteriv, Irpin', Desna and Pripyat.
  • Bulgarians in Ukraine
    Bulgarians in Ukraine is the fifth biggest minority in the country primarily residing in the southern regions where they make up a significant minority living in the Odessa Oblast, the city of Bolhrad.
  • Greeks in Ukraine
    Greeks in Ukraine are a Hellenic minority that resides in Ukraine or used to live on territory of modern Ukraine.
  • Gagauz people
    The Gagauz people are a Turkic-speaking group living mostly in southern Moldova (Gagauzia), southwestern Ukraine (Budjak), south-eastern Romania (Dobruja), northeastern Bulgaria, Greece, Brazil, United States and Canada.
  • Hungarians in Ukraine
    The Hungarians in Ukraine number 156,600 people according to the Ukrainian census of 2001 and are the fifth in number national minority in the country.
  • Albanians in Ukraine
    The Albanians in Ukraine (also known as Albantsi, Ukrainian: Албанці) are an ethnic minority group located mainly in Zaporizhia Oblast and Budjak.
  • Crimean Karaites
    The Crimean Karaites or Krymkaraylar (Crimean Karaim: Кърымкъарайлар sg. къарай – qaray; Trakai Karaim: sg. karaj, pl. karajlar, Hebrew: קראי מזרח אירופה, Turkish: Karaylar), also known as Karaims and Qarays, are an ethnic group derived from Turkic-speaking adherents of Karaism in Central and Eastern Europe, especially in the territory of the former Russian Empire.
  • Gagauz people in Ukraine
    Ethnic Gagauz people in Ukraine number around 31,923.
  • Georgians in Ukraine
    Ethnic Georgians in Ukraine number around 34,199.
  • Tatars in Ukraine
    Tatars are one of many ethnic minorities in Ukraine.
  • Turks in Ukraine
    Turks in Ukraine are people of Turkish ethnicity living in Ukraine.