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UPPCS World Geography Gap Sheet: Tribes and Peoples of the World.
UPPCS has asked 16 of these. 5 have not been asked yet. Lock the first list, then read the second: it holds what UPPCS has not used yet.
First, the concept
Traditional peoples live in step with their land: herders in grasslands and deserts, hunter-gatherers in forests and the Kalahari, reindeer herders in the tundra.
UPPCS asks a tribe with its country or region, often as a 'not correctly matched' pair.
✅ Already asked (16)
Africa
- Maasai · Kenya–Tanzania; cattle herders
- San (Bushmen) · Kalahari desert; hunter-gatherers
- Pygmies · Congo rain forest; very short people
- Bedouin · Arabian and Saharan deserts; nomadic herders
- Zulu · South Africa
- Berber and Fulani · North Africa; West Africa (Sahel herders)
Arctic and Eurasia
- Inuit (Eskimo) · Canada, Greenland, Alaska; igloos, kayaks
- Sami (Lapps) · Northern Norway, Sweden, Finland; reindeer herders
- Kirghiz and Kazakh · Central Asian steppes; nomadic herders
- Ainu · Hokkaido, Japan
- Mongols · Mongolia; live in yurts (gers)
Asia-Pacific and the Americas
- Maori · New Zealand
- Papuans · New Guinea
- Semang and Sakai · Malaysia
- Native Americans (Red Indians) · North America
- Mayan · Guatemala and southern Mexico
❌ Not asked yet (5)
🔒 5 items not asked yet
Africa: 2 · Arctic and Eurasia: 1 · Asia-Pacific and the Americas: 2
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⚠️ The Maasai are in Kenya–Tanzania, not Zambia. The Bushmen live in the Kalahari, not the Congo forest. The Ainu are in Japan, the Maori in New Zealand.
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