San people

members of various indigenous hunter-gatherer people of Southern Africa
Intangible ethnic_group Q172365
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San people

Summary

San people is an ethnic group[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of ethnic_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,668 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • San people's religion is recorded as traditional African religion[3].
  • San people's religion is recorded as Christianity[4].
  • San people's religion is recorded as shamanism[5].
  • San people is in the country of Botswana[6].
  • San people is in the country of Namibia[7].
  • San people is in the country of Angola[8].
  • San people is in the country of South Africa[9].
  • San people is in the country of Zambia[10].
  • San people is in the country of Zimbabwe[11].
  • San people's instance of is recorded as ethnic group[12].
  • San people is a type of indigenous peoples of Africa[13].
  • San people is part of Khoisan[14].
  • San people's Commons category is recorded as San people[15].
  • San people's topic's main category is recorded as Category:San people[16].
  • San people has a population of {'amount': '+100000'}[17].
  • San people's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[18].
  • San people's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[19].
  • San people's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[20].
  • San people's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21].
  • San people's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22].
  • San people's different from is recorded as San[23].
  • San people's language used is recorded as Khoisan[24].
  • San people's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[25].
  • San people's self-identified name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'San'}[26].
  • San people's self-identified name is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'San'}[27].

Product Details

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MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Other[28]

  • MusicBrainz ID: a9363a0f-438a-4179-a269-99bce8739107[29]

Body

Definition and Type

San people's instance of is recorded as ethnic group[12]. It is a type of indigenous peoples of Africa[13].

Use and Application

San people is part of Khoisan[14].

Why It Matters

San people ranks in the top 4% of ethnic_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,668 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] It is known by 75 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] . wikidata.org.
  2. [7] . wikidata.org.
  3. [8] . wikidata.org.
  4. [9] . wikidata.org.
  5. [10] . wikidata.org.
  6. [11] . wikidata.org.
  7. [12] . wikidata.org.
  8. [3] . wikidata.org.
  9. [4] . wikidata.org.
  10. [5] . 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.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [28] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [29] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 15d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of Khoisan
    Instance of
    Different from San
    Language used Khoisan
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    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|10 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 10421, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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