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 (17,907 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].
  • Bantu people's P14541 is recorded as 1Wa9wB[19].

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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 (17,907 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] It is known by 74 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

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.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  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.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . 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. 29d ago · Bischrob · 2026-09-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sociomap id → SM480028
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P14249]]: SM480028, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1789071553872"
  2. 13w 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. 20w 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 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 2853, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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