Bantu people

family of ethnolinguistic groups in Africa
Intangible ethnic_group Q173371
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Bantu people

Summary

Bantu people is an ethnic group[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of ethnic_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,429 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Bantu people's religion is recorded as Christianity[3].
  • Bantu people's religion is recorded as Islam[4].
  • Bantu people's religion is recorded as animism[5].
  • Bantu people's instance of is recorded as ethnic group[6].
  • Bantu people is a type of Benue–Congo peoples[7].
  • Bantu people's Commons category is recorded as Bantu peoples[8].
  • Bantu people's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Bantu peoples[9].
  • Bantu people's Commons gallery is recorded as Bantu[10].
  • Bantu people has a population of {'amount': '+200000000'}[11].
  • Bantu people's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[12].
  • Bantu people's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[13].
  • Bantu people's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • Bantu people's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • Bantu people's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[16].
  • Bantu people's described by source is recorded as Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia[17].
  • Bantu people's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18].

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Definition and Type

Bantu people's instance of is recorded as ethnic group[6]. It is a type of Benue–Congo peoples[7].

Why It Matters

Bantu people ranks in the top 2% of ethnic_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,429 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 46 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  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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  1. 16d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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