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Khmer Krom
The Khmer Krom (ខ្មែរក្រោម, "lower Khmer") are the ethnic Khmer minority of southern Vietnam, living in the Mekong Delta, speaking Khmer, and practicing Theravada Buddhism.
Khmer people
Khmer people: Austroasiatic-speaking ethnic group of Cambodia, heirs of the 9th–15th century Khmer Empire of Angkor; 95.8% of Cambodia's population; Theravada Buddhist; Khmer Krom minority in Vietnam; large Thai labor migrant and US diaspora populations.
Khorchin Mongols
The Khorchin Mongols (Хорчин) are a Mongol people of Inner Mongolia, China, descended from Khasar, a brother of Chinggis Khan, and among the first Mongols to ally with the Manchus.
Komodo people
Komodo people (Ata Modo, "people of Modo") are the indigenous Muslim inhabitants of Komodo Island, Indonesia, speakers of the endangered Komodo language (kvh), kin to the dragon Ora in the sebae twin myth, facing relocation and tourism pressure.
Koreans (한국인)
Koreans (한국인, Han minjok) are the East Asian ethnic people of the Korean Peninsula and its worldwide diaspora. About 96% of South Koreans are ethnically Korean; roughly 7 million Koreans live abroad; genetically an admixed northern-southern East Asian group.
Lao people (ຄົນລາວ)
Lao people (ຄົນລາວ), Tai-speaking group on both sides of the Mekong: ethnic Lao are ~30% of Laos, while most Thai Northeasterners (Isan) are of Lao ethnicity. Historic Lan Xang kingdom, 1904 Siamese reclassification, and a 1975–1980s diaspora distinguish the group.
Malay race
Malay race (bangsa Melayu): a state population category in Malaysia and Singapore, one of the Malay-Chinese-Indian-Others groups inherited from British colonial censuses, legally and administratively tied to Bumiputera status and Malay identity.
Malays (أورڠ ملايو) (ethnic group)
Malays (Orang Melayu) are an Austronesian ethnic group of maritime Southeast Asia defined by Malay language, Islam, and adat custom; Malaysia's constitution fixes these criteria legally, and Malays form 58.4% of Malaysian citizens (2026) and 67.4% of Brunei's 2021 population.
Manchu people
The Manchu people, also known as the Manchus, are an East Asian ethnic group from northeast China who founded and ruled the Qing dynasty from 1644 to 1912.
Maranao people
The Maranao (Meranao) are the largest Islamic ethnolinguistic group of the Philippines, living around Lake Lanao in Lanao del Sur, Mindanao; known for the torogan royal house, okir carving, malong weaving, and kolintang gong music.
Miao people
Miao (苗) is China's official ethnonym for several Hmong-Mien-speaking groups: Hmu, Qo Xiong, A-Hmao, and Hmong proper. About 11 million people, over a third in Guizhou; diaspora Hmong reject the term as pejorative.
Minahasan people
Minahasan people, also called the Manado people, are an Indigenous Christian ethnic group of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, formed from eight tribes united in the eighteenth century, speaking Minahasan Austronesian languages related to Philippine languages.
Minangkabau people
Minangkabau: Muslim people of West Sumatra, Indonesia, about three million strong and the world's largest matrilineal society; women inherit houses and rice fields, men migrate (merantau), and adat coexists with Islam amid persistent gender asymmetries.
Mon people
The Mon are an Austroasiatic-speaking ethnic group living in lower Myanmar and parts of Thailand. Their early civilization is identified in Myanmar, with Dvaravati finds dating to the 1st or 2nd century AD.
Mongols (Монголчууд)
The Mongols (Монголчууд) are an ethnographic group of Central Asia's Mongolian Plateau; today they live mainly in Mongolia, China's Inner Mongolia, and southern Siberia, and Chinggis Khaan founded their empire in 1206.
Moro people
Moro people (Bangsamoro): Islamized ethnolinguistic groups of Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan, Philippines. Named after Spanish "Moors"; largest groups Maguindanao, Maranao, Tausug; 7.11 million (6.5%) in the 2020 census; history of Spanish, American, and post-1946 conflict.
Mosuo (摩梭)
Mosuo (摩梭), also called Na, an ethnic group of about 40,000 around Lugu Lake, Yunnan/Sichuan, China, known for matrilineal households, duolocal residence, and 'walking marriages' (Sese/Zouhun); distinct from the Naxi and from true matriarchy.
Negrito
Negrito is a Spanish-origin anthropological term for short-statured, dark-skinned, frizzy-haired indigenous groups in the Philippines, Malay Peninsula, southern Thailand, and Andaman Islands, including the Semang, Maniq, Aeta, and Andamanese; genetics shows they are not one population.
Orang Laut
Orang Laut, Malay for "sea people," are boat-dwelling maritime communities of the Thai-Malay Peninsula and Sumatra, historically pillars of the Srivijaya, Melaka, and Johor-Riau kingdoms.
Pinoy
Pinoy: informal word for a Filipino, from Tagalog (Fili)pino plus diminutive -y, first recorded 1920-25; widely used in the Filipino diaspora, alongside Pinay and Filipinx.
Rakhine people
Rakhine (Arakanese) people: Theravada Buddhist ethnic group of Rakhine State, western Myanmar, about 3 million strong (6.2% of population, 2014 census); heirs of the Arakanese kingdom conquered in 1784, distinct from the Muslim Rohingya minority.
Rohingya people
The Rohingya are a stateless Muslim minority from Rakhine State, Myanmar, denationalized by the 1982 Citizenship Law; over 700,000 fled in 2017, and around 1.2 million now live in Bangladesh camps while The Gambia's ICJ genocide case proceeds.
Sama-Bajau
Sama-Bajau (Bajau, Bajo, Badjao): Austronesian maritime people of the Philippines, Borneo, and eastern Indonesia, historically boat-dwelling sea nomads, now largely settled and many stateless.
Shan people (ရှမ်းလူမျိုး)
The Shan people are a Tai-speaking ethnic minority concentrated in Shan State in eastern Myanmar. Mostly Theravada Buddhists, they historically ruled hereditary principalities, shaping their political relationship with the Burmese state.
Stereotypes of East Asians in the United States
Stereotypes of East Asians in the United States, also called perpetual foreigner, model minority, and yellow peril tropes, cast Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Americans as unassimilable foreigners and uniformly high achievers, driving discrimination and media underrepresentation.
Sundanese people
Sundanese (orang Sunda), the second largest ethnic group of Indonesia at 15.5% in 2010, inhabit West Java and Banten (Pasundan/Tatar Sunda), speak the Sundanese language, are mostly Muslim, and farm wet rice traditionally timed by the pranata mangsa calendar.
Tagalog people
Tagalog people (Taga-ilog, "from the river") are the largest Philippine ethnolinguistic group, 28,273,666 people or 26.0% of the 2020 census household population, native to Luzon; their language underlies Filipino, the national language.
Tai peoples
Tai peoples: ethnic groups of mainland Southeast Asia and southern China speaking Tai languages of the Kra-Dai family; called Dai in China, Shan in Myanmar, Lao in Laos; southern-China origin, nearly 100 million Kra-Dai speakers.
Taiwanese people (台湾人)
Taiwanese people (台湾人) are the inhabitants of Taiwan, descended from Indigenous Austronesian peoples, Han immigrants from Fujian and Guangdong, and post-1945 mainland migrants; key facts include the Austronesian homeland in Taiwan and shifting identity under successive governments.
Tausūg people
Tausug (Suluk) people, meaning People of Sulu, are the dominant Muslim ethnolinguistic group of Jolo and the Sulu Archipelago, historically ruling the Sultanate of Sulu; their language is distinct from Sama-Bajau and closest to Butuanon.