Kurdish, with 15 %, constitute a major community in southeastern Anatolia, and are the largest ethnic minority.

* Arab Americans, particularly Lebanese Americans ( the largest ethnic Arab group in the United States )-Arab cuisine, Lebanese cuisine

As of 2011, Canadians who are of Scottish ancestry are the third largest ethnic group in the country and thus Columba's name is to be found attached to Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian parishes.

Only ethnic dominance, the case where the largest ethnic group comprises a majority of the population, increased the risk of civil war.

The two largest ethnic groups are the Somali ( 60 %) and the Afar ( 35 %).

Mestizos, the multiracial group of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry, are by far the largest of all the ethnic groups, and comprise around 72 % of the current population.

They are the largest ethnic group in the country, constituting about 55 % of the population.

The largest ethnic group of non-German origin are the Turkish.

The two countries are also economically interdependent: 8. 8 % of German exports are U. S .- bound and 6. 6 % of German imports originate from the U. S. Other signs of the close ties include the continuing position of German-Americans as the largest ethnic group in the U. S. and the status of Ramstein Air Base ( near Kaiserslautern ) as the largest U. S. military community outside the U. S.

The largest ethnic group among the Catholic priesthood of Britain remains Irish ( in the United States, the upper ranks of the Church's hierarchy are of predominantly Irish descent.

The 2006 census by Statcan, Canada's Official Statistical office revealed that the Irish were the 4th largest ethnic group with 4, 354, 155 Canadians with full or partial Irish descent or 14 % of the nation's total population.

Irish Americans number over 45 million, making them the second largest reported ethnic group in the country, after German Americans.

This exchange greatly exacerbated tensions between the republic's two largest ethnic groups, who at that point were numerically about equal.

Kenya's diversity is such that its largest ethnic group, the Kikuyu, make up for less than a fifth of total population.

The independence of Pakistan in 1947 saw the settlement of the what is now the largest ethnic community in the city, the Muhajirs who migrated from India in search of a Muslim homeland and settled in Pakistan, that's why the culture of Karachi is very similar to any Indian Muslim dominant city and the city's first language is Urdu because of these Muhajir unlike other parts of the country Most properties vacated by Hindus were granted to Urdu-speaking Muslim migrants who had migrated from India, Known as Muhajirs, their descendants now form the majority of Karachi's residents, these Mohajirs of Urdu, Gujrati, Marathi, Konkani Muslims from India and Bengali origin are around 13 million.

The Pashtuns ( Pakhtuns or Pathans ), originally from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, FATA and northern Balochistan, are now the city's second largest ethnic group in Karachi after Muhajirs.

The largest ethnic minority groups are Turks, Southern Europeans ( mostly Greeks and Italians ), Eastern Europeans ( e. g. Poles, Russians ), Arabs and several other smaller groups.

In 1770 there were about 4. 84 million inhabitants in GDL, of which the largest ethnic group were Ruthenians, about 1. 39 million – Lithuanians.

The largest religious and ethnic group in the Levant is Sunni Muslim Arabs, but there are also many other groups.

The Li ( 黎 ; pinyin: Lí ) or Hlai are a minority ethnic group, the vast majority of whom live off the southern coast of mainland China on Hainan Island, where they are the largest minority ethnic group.

The Malagasy ethnic group is often divided into eighteen or more sub-groups of which the largest are the Merina of the central highlands.

The largest ethnic group in the middle east are Arabs.

Today, the three largest US American Ásatrú organizations have specifically denounced any association with racist groups.

Worldwide the three largest groups of Christianity are the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the various denominations of Protestantism.

Other groups originating in this time period include the Christadelphians and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the largest denomination of the Latter Day Saint movement with over 14 million members.

Increasingly, hydro-power operations are required to meet standards under the U. S. Endangered Species Act and other agreements to manage operations to minimize impacts on salmon and other fish, and some conservation and fishing groups support removing four dams on the lower Snake River, the largest tributary of the Columbia.

Among the separate contra groups, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force ( FDN ) emerged as the largest by far.

Notable student groups include the nation's largest and oldest collegiate outdoors club, the Dartmouth Outing Club, which includes the nationally recognized Big Green Bus, the controversial conservative newspaper The Dartmouth Review, and The Dartmouth, arguably the nation's oldest university newspaper.

He presides over a multi-party chamber, the two largest groups being the Group of the European People's Party ( EPP ) and the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats ( S & D ).

It is the group with the largest numbers of speakers, far out-numbering the Western and Southern Slavic groups.

Galaxy groups and clusters are the largest known gravitationally bound objects to have arisen thus far in the process of cosmic structure formation.

The right-wing groups, the largest of which was CEDA, a right wing Roman Catholic coalition, held opposing views on most issues.

The largest resistance group, the National Liberation Front ( EAM ), was controlled by the Communists, as was ( Elas ) led by Aris Velouchiotis and a civil war soon broke out between it and non-Communist groups such as the National Republican Greek League ( EDES ) in those areas liberated from the Germans.

High-density lipoprotein ( HDL ) is one of the five major groups of lipoproteins, which, in order of sizes, largest to smallest, are chylomicrons, VLDL, IDL, LDL, and HDL, which enable lipids like cholesterol and triglycerides to be transported within the water-based bloodstream.

The largest remaining communities of the Brethren were located in Lissa ( Leszno ) in Poland, which had historically strong ties with the Czechs, and in small, isolated groups in Moravia.

The Islands of the Firth of Clyde are the fifth largest of the major Scottish island groups after the Inner and Outer Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland.

Some member groups have only a few hundred members ; while the largest, the Unitarian Universalist Association, has over 200, 000 members and is larger than all the other member groups put together.

In the United Kingdom, Jardine Motors is one of the country ’ s largest retail dealership groups with a portfolio of specialist franchises that includes Aston Martin, BMW, Ferrari, Lexus, Mercedes Benz, Porsche and, most recently, McLaren.

In 1979, Falwell founded the Moral Majority, which became one of the largest political lobby groups for evangelical Christians in the United States during the 1980s.

The history of Kazakhstan describes the human past in the Eurasia's largest segment of the steppe belt that was the home and crossroads for numerous human groups starting with extinct Pithecanthropus and Sinanthropus 1 mln – 800, 000 in the Karatau Mountains, Caspian and Balkhash areas ; Neanderthals 140 – 40 thousand years ago in the Karatau Mountains and Central Kazakhstan, and the arrival of the modern Homo Sapiens 40 – 12 thousand years ago in the Southern, Central, and Eastern Kazakhstan.

The Niger – Congo languages constitute one of the world's major language families, and Africa's largest in terms of geographical area, number of speakers, and number of distinct languages.

Dholuo language of the Luo, Kenya's third largest ethnicity after the Niger – Congo Kikuyu and Luhya ).

The Niger ( with 1, 693 kilometers in Mali ) and Senegal are Mali ’ s two largest rivers.

The Ogooué ( or Ogowe ), some long, is the principal river of Gabon in west central Africa and the fourth largest river in Africa by volume of discharge, trailing only the Congo, Niger and Zambezi.

Zinder ( which is locally called Damagaram ) is the second largest city in Niger, with a population of 170, 574 ( 2001 census ) by 2005 was estimated to be over 200, 000.

Roger Blench, relying particularly on prior work by Professor Kay Williamson of the University of Port Harcourt, and the linguist P. De Wolf, who each took the same position, has argued that a Benue – Congo linguistic subfamily of the Niger – Congo language family, which includes the Bantu languages and other related languages and would be the largest branch of Niger – Congo, is an empirically supported grouping which probably originated at the confluence of the Beneu and Congo Rivers in Central Nigeria.

The Benue – Congo group of languages constitutes the largest branch of the Niger – Congo language family, both in terms of sheer number of languages, of which Ethnologue ( 2009 ) counts 900, and in terms of speakers, numbering perhaps 350 million.

) The Niger – Congo Languages – A classification and description of Africa's largest language family.

One controversial aspect of this move was Gowon's annexing of Port Harcourt, a large city in the Niger Delta, in the South of Nigeria ( the Ikwerres ), sitting on some of Nigeria's largest reserves, into the new Rivers State, emasculating the migrant Igbo population of traders there.

Kulczyk Investments is a 40 % shareholder in Neconde Energy Limited, a recently formed consortium that acquired a 45 % stake in a production license OML 42 in the Niger Delta from Shell, one of the world ’ s largest hydrocarbon reservoirs.

The Hausa are one of the largest ethnic groups in Nigeria, Niger, Sudan, and in many West and Central African countries.

The seventh most populous town in Niger and the largest in Dosso Region, it had an official population during the 2001 census of 43, 561.

Niger State is a state in North Western Nigeria and the largest state in the country.

Two of Nigeria's major hydroelectric power stations, the Kainji Dam and the Shiroro Dam, are located in Niger State ; also situated there is Kainji National Park, the largest National Park of Nigeria, which contains Kainji Lake, the Borgu Game Reserve and the Zugurma Game Reserve.

) The Niger – Congo languages: A classification and description of Africa's largest language family ( pp. 169 – 177 ).

Maradi is the third largest city in Niger and the administrative centre of Maradi Region.

The Agadez Region represents 52 % of the total area of Niger, the largest of its seven regions.

), The Niger – Congo languages: A classification and description of Africa ’ s largest language family, 105-118.