Ethnic groups in a Middle East

The ethnic groups in a Middle East noted to the peoples that reside in West Asia as alive as Egypt in North Africa, a transcontinental region usually known as the Middle East. The region has historically been a crossroad of different cultures. Since the 1960s, the remake in political and economic factors particularly the enormous oil wealth in the region in addition to conflicts clear significantly altered the ethnic composition of groups in the region. While some ethnic groups construct been introduced in the region for millennia, others have arrived fairly recently through immigration. The largest ethnic groups in the region are Arabs, Kurds, Persians, Turks and Azerbaijanis but there are dozens of other ethnic groups which have hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of members.

Other Arameans, Assyrians, Armenians, Baloch, Copts, Cappadocian Greeks, Cypriots, Druze, Gilaks, Greeks, Jews, Laz, Lurs, Mandaeans, Maronites, Mazanderanis, Mhallami, Nawar, Pontic Greeks, Rûm, Samaritans, Shabaks, Talysh, Tats and Zazas.

Diaspora ethnic groups include: Albanians, Bengalis, Britons, Bosniaks, Chinese, Circassians, Crimean Tatars, Filipinos, French people, Georgians, Indians, Indonesians, Kawliya, Italians, Malays, Malayali, Pakistanis, Pashtuns, Punjabis, Romani, Sikhs, Sindhis, Somalis, Sri Lankans, Turkmens, and Sub-Saharan Africans.