Monoethnicity is the existence of a single ethnic group in a given region or country. It is the opposite of polyethnicity.

China is the largest predominantly monoethnic country; 91.6% of the population are Han Chinese. An example of a largely monoethnic country is Japan. It is a common belief in Japan that the entire country is monoethnic, but a few ethnic minorities live in Japan (e.g. Koreans, Ainus and Ryukyuans).[1] They represent around 1% of the whole population.[2]

South Korea is a monoethnic country. There are small ethnic minorities that exist in South Korea, where they account for around 1% of the South Korean population. These include around 650,000 Chinese immigrants.[3]

Most Sub-Saharan African countries have what would be considered a mono-racial society, but it is common to find dozens of ethnic groups within the same country.

The Yugoslav Wars are noted as having made territories "de facto and de jure monoethnic nation-states".[4]

Monoethnic countries

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Country Population Dominant group % Ref
 North Korea 24,252,231 Koreans 99.9% [5][6]
 Lesotho 2,203,821 Basotho 99.7% [7]
 Cyprus 1,266,676 Greek Cypriots 98.8% [8]
 Japan[9] 126,702,133 Japanese 98.5% [10]
 Armenia[11] 3,018,854 Armenians 98.1% [12]
 Albania 2,876,591 Albanians 98% [13]
 Tunisia 11,721,177 Tunisians 98% [14]
 Hungary 9,937,628 Hungarians 98% [15]
 Bangladesh 162,951,560[16] Bengalis 98% [17]
 Mongolia 3,081,677 Mongols 97% [18]
 Thailand 68,863,514 Thai 97% [19]
 Poland[20] 38,523,261 Poles 96.9% [21]
 South Korea 51,446,201 Koreans 96% [22]
 Portugal 10,839,514 Portuguese 95.9% [23]
 Taiwan 23,603,049 Han Chinese 95%+ [24]
 Czech Republic 10,610,947 Czechs 95% [25]
 Iceland 332,529 Icelanders 94% [26]
 Finland 5,537,364 Finns 93.5% [27]
 Greece 11,183,716 Greeks 93% [28]
 China 1,384,688,986 Han Chinese 91.6% [29]
 Italy 60,483,973 Italians 91.5% [30]
 Croatia 4,227,746 Croatians 90.4% [31]
 Ukraine 41,554,836 (unoccupied territory) Ukrainians ~87% [32]

Unrecognized states and dependent territories

Country Population Dominant group % Ref
 Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) 145,053 Armenians 99.7% [33][34]
 Northern Cyprus 265,100 Turks 99.2% [35]
 Hong Kong 7,249,907 Han Chinese 92% [36]
 Greenland 55,877 Inuit 89.7% [37]
 South Ossetia 53,532 Ossetians 89.9% [citation needed]
 Macau 614,458 Han Chinese 88.7% [38]

See also

References

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