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Bantu people

family of ethnolinguistic groups in Africa
Intangible ethnic_group Q173371
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Summary

Bantu people is an ethnic group[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of ethnic group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,496 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Religion or worldview: Christianity[3], Islam[4], animism[5]
  • Subclass of: Benue–Congo peoples[6]
  • Commons category: Bantu peoples[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Bantu peoples[8]
  • Commons gallery: Bantu[9]
  • Population: 200,000,000[10]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[11], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[12], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[15], Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia[16]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[17]
  • P14541: 1Wa9wB[18]

Why It Matters

Bantu people has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 74 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

Tanzania

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Bischrob · 2026-09-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sociomap id → SM480028
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Sociomap id: SM480028, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1789071553872"
  2. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1Wa9wB
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Aliases → —
    Population → —
    Subclass of → Benue–Congo peoples
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 2853, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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