They are ethnically known as Dhivehis.

Thai Chinese, those of significant Chinese heritage, are 14 of the population, while Thais with partial Chinese ancestry comprise up to 40 of the population.

The majority of the population are ethnic Vietnamese (Kinh) at about 93.52 .

They are linguistically and ethnically related to the people in the Indian subcontinent.

London offers a great variety of cuisine as a result of its ethnically diverse population.

) Ethnic groups The majority of the 5.4 million inhabitants of Slovakia are Slovak (80.7 ).

One time my husband, a British friend, and I travelled to Bandar Abbas an ethnically Arab part of Iran near the Persian Gulf.

Ethnically kin to the Finns and Hungarians, their profoundly ecological religious worldview challenges Russian led designs on their republic s natural resources.

It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large scale immigration from many countries.

It has a missionary presence in over 200 countries and territories and is ethnically and culturally diverse.

Probably the nearest stylistic parallel to the work as a whole is to Elton John's The Lion King , another musical with strong emphasis on ethnically diverse stylistic influences.

Nurbek Toktukunov, an ethnic Kyrgyz lawyer, describes the difficulties he has faced in defending an Uzbek client accused of murder during the June events.

In May 1967, the Eastern Region declared independence as a state called the Republic of Biafra, under the leadership of Lt Colonel Emeka Ojukwu.

On 29 May 1967, Lt. Col. Emeka Ojukwu, the military governor of the eastern region who emerged as the leader of increasing Igbo secessionist sentiment, declared the independence of the eastern region as the Republic of Biafra on 30 May 1967.

PNR is also opposed to Turkey entering the European Union and considers that Turkey is not a European country, geographically, culturally or ethnically.

In the Second World War, the Axis forces created the Independent State of Croatia led by the Ustaše movement which sought to create an ethnically pure Croatian state on the territory corresponding to present day countries of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Serer language is widely spoken by both Serers and non Serers (including president Sall, whose wife is Serer) so are the Cangin languages, whose speakers are ethnically Serers.

(In the seventeenth century, out of more than thirty royal free towns, only seven had a Hungarian majority, with Kolozsvár Klausenburg being one of them the rest were largely German dominated.

On June 10, 2010, local clashes between the ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbek population in the Kyrgyz part of the Ferghana valley turned into a full blown massacre and further exodus of the Kyrgyzstan based Uzbeks .

Like most European empires, it was ethnically very diverse, but unlike most European empires, it was more of a system of tribute than a single system of government.

The largest population of ethnic Ukrainians outside of Ukraine lives in Russia where about 1.9 million Russian citizens consider themselves ethnic Ukrainians, while millions of others (primarily in southern Russia and Siberia) have some Ukrainian ancestry.

Until the 1890s, the region around Nuristan was known as Kafiristan (land of the kafirs (unbelievers)) because of its non Muslim inhabitants, the Nuristanis, an ethnically distinct people whose religious practices included animism, polytheism, and shamanism.

Comments by French and francophone Rue 89 readers (mostly anonymous) run the gamut, with some arguing that the death of languages is inevitable, and in some ways necessary, in ethnically diverse societies others that it amounts to nothing less than cultural genocide.

This is what you'll find out about Barbie. This is it, there's nothing more to the definition, including, manufacturers plural now more commonly produce ethnically diverse dolls, like this black Barbie. Which is vastly better than what you'll find in the encyclopedia.com, which is Barbie, Klaus.

Notable residents Because of its intermittent periods of great prosperity as well as being the largest city in the Caucasus and one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse in the Soviet Union, Baku prides itself on having produced a disproportionate number of notable figures in the sciences, arts and other fields.