AncestryDNA

{
    "ethnicity": {
        "regionGroups": {
            "name": {
                "Africa": "Africa",
                "Asia": "Asia",
                "Europe": "Europe",
                "America": "America",
                "PacificIslander": "Pacific Islander",
                "WestAsia": "West Asia"
            }
        },
        "region": {
            "name": {
                "2": {
                    "otherRegionsAvailable": "More Regions",
                    "AfricaBantu": "Africa Southeastern Bantu",
                    "AfricaN": "Africa North",
                    "AfricanAmerican": "African Americans",
                    "AfricaSanPygmy": "Africa South-Central Hunter-Gatherers",
                    "BeninTogo": "Benin/Togo",
                    "CameroonCongo": "Cameroon/Congo",
                    "IvoryGhana": "Ivory Coast/Ghana",
                    "Mali": "Mali",
                    "Nigeria": "Nigeria",
                    "Senegal": "Senegal",
                    "America": "Native American",
                    "AsiaC": "Asia Central",
                    "AsiaE": "Asia East",
                    "AsiaS": "Asia South",
                    "Caucasus": "Caucasus",
                    "NearEast": "Middle East",
                    "AngloSaxon": "Great Britain",
                    "Celtic": "Ireland/Scotland/Wales",
                    "European": "European Migrations",
                    "EuropeE": "Europe East",
                    "EuropeW": "Europe West",
                    "EuropeS": "Europe South",
                    "EuropeJe": "European Jewish",
                    "UralVolga": "Finland/Northwest Russia",
                    "EuropeIb": "Iberian Peninsula",
                    "EuropeN": "Scandinavia",
                    "Melanesia": "Melanesia",
                    "Polynesia": "Polynesia",
                    "SouthAmerican": "South American Migrations",
                    "Unknown": "Unknown"
                },
                "4": {
                    "AfricaN": "Northern Africa",
                    "AfricanAmerican": "African Americans",
                    "AfricaSanPygmy": "Africa South-Central Hunter-Gatherers",
                    "AmericaN": "Native American—North, Central, South",
                    "AmericaS": "Native American—Andean",
                    "AngloSaxon": "England, Wales & Northwestern Europe",
                    "AsiaNE": "Central and Northern Asia",
                    "AsiaS": "Southern Asia",
                    "Balochistan": "Balochistan",
                    "Baltic": "Baltic States",
                    "Basque": "Basque",
                    "BeninTogo": "Benin/Togo",
                    "Burusho": "Burusho",
                    "CameroonCongo": "Cameroon, Congo, and Southern Bantu Peoples",
                    "Celtic": "Ireland and Scotland",
                    "China": "China",
                    "Dai": "Southeast Asia—Dai (Tai)",
                    "European": "European Migrations",
                    "EuropeJe": "European Jewish",
                    "France": "France",
                    "Germany": "Germanic Europe",
                    "GreeceAlbania": "Greece and the Balkans",
                    "Gujarati": "Western and Central India",
                    "Italy": "Italy",
                    "IvoryGhana": "Ivory Coast/Ghana",
                    "Japan": "Japan",
                    "Korea": "Korea and Northern China",
                    "Luhya": "Eastern Africa",
                    "Mali": "Mali",
                    "Melanesia": "Melanesia",
                    "NearEast": "Middle East",
                    "Nigeria": "Nigeria",
                    "Norway": "Norway",
                    "Persian": "Iran/Persia",
                    "Philippines": "Philippines",
                    "Polynesia": "Polynesia",
                    "Portugal": "Portugal",
                    "Sardinian": "Sardinia",
                    "Senegal": "Senegal",
                    "Slavic": "Eastern Europe and Russia",
                    "SouthAmerican": "South American Migrations",
                    "Spain": "Spain",
                    "Sweden": "Sweden",
                    "TurkeyArmenia": "Turkey and the Caucasus",
                    "UralVolga": "Finland",
                    "Vietnam": "Southeast Asia—Vietnam"
                }
            },
            "overview": {
                "2": {
                    "AfricaBantu": "The Southeastern Bantu region shares a genetic thread spanning thousands of years and thousands of miles through the heart of Africa. As West Africa’s population grew, about 3,000 years ago Bantu-speaking peoples migrated in two directions. Some went south along Africa's west coast. Others headed east across the continent, then turned south. Along the way they spread Bantu languages throughout much of Africa and laid the foundations of kingdoms and cultures that included the Baganda, Zimbabwe, and Zulu.",
                    "AfricaN": "Africa North includes modern-day Morocco, Algeria, Western Sahara, and Libya. These countries, along with Mauritania and Tunisia, are often called the Maghreb. Arabs and Berbers make up the majority of the population, most of which speaks Arabic and lives within 50 miles of the Atlantic or Mediterranean coasts. Islam has been the dominant religion since the Muslim conquests; however, this region has remained culturally diverse, and Berber traditions have remained strong, especially in the harsher mountain and desert lands.",
                    "AfricaSanPygmy": "This region of both deserts and jungles is believed to be where human beings originated and is still home to ancient hunter-gatherer and pastoral groups. Their isolation, small populations, and nomadic lifestyles left them less affected by the slave trade than many other groups in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, during the colonial era, newcomers altered migration patterns, introduced Christianity, denied access to some lands, and changed hierarchies and relationships among tribes and clans.",
                    "BeninTogo": "Though linked by history, geography, and religion, the people of Benin and Togo are ethnically quite different. Benin has more ethnic ties to its neighbor Nigeria; Togo has more to Ghana. Those connections stem from long-standing kingdoms that flourished in Africa before European colonists created new borders and countries. Today, most northern Beninese and Togolese practice herding, fishing, and subsistence farming. In the more urban south, people work at a trade or sell goods at local markets.",
                    "CameroonCongo": "Cameroon and Congo lie near or on the equator and include tropical rainforests and humid savannas. humans have lived in the Congo River Basin for 30,000 years, and today more than 200 different ethnic groups call the region home. The Congo takes its name from an old African kingdom. Cameroon got its name from Portuguese sailors who called the Wouri River the Rio dos Camarões (River of Shrimp). Nearly half of all Africans brought to the Western Hemisphere via the slave trade came from this region.",
                    "IvoryGhana": "Early French and Portuguese explorers identified areas of the West African coast by their resources, which is how Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) got its name. Ghana was known as the Gold Coast until it won independence from colonial rule and renamed itself after a medieval West African empire. More than 46 million people from more than 60 ethnic groups live in the two countries, which nowadays depend on chocolate more than ivory and gold: Ivory Coast and Ghana provide about half of the world’s cocoa.",
                    "Mali": "For centuries, Mali was a fabled land of gold, scholarship, and empires. Mali’s modern boundaries were drawn when French Sudan was created and united two very different regions: the Sudanian savannas and the Sahara Desert. The savannas at the edge of the desert were a natural place for trans-Saharan trade, which connected western Africa with Europe and Asia in precolonial times. Muslim traders from North Africa brought Islam to the region, and today more than 90% of the population is Muslim.",
                    "Nigeria": "Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa, with more than 168 million people living in an area about twice the size of California. The country has six cities with populations more than 1 million (the United States has nine). Nigeria as a country was a product of colonialism and brought together more than 250 ethnic groups within its borders. Islam is the predominant religion in the north, while most people in the south are Christian. About 10% of Nigerians follow traditional or indigenous beliefs.",
                    "Senegal": "Africa’s westernmost nation, Senegal, lies about 1,000 miles above the equator. Trade from across the Sahara brought wealth, Islam, and new peoples into the region, and the Ghana, Mali, and Wolof empires each bordered or included parts of modern-day Senegal. Colonial powers brought an end to local kingdoms, and Gorée Island, just a mile off Senegal’s coast, became one of the largest slave-trading centers in Africa. Today, Senegal is widely known for its music and miles of pristine beaches.",
                    "America": "North and South America were the last inhabited continents to be populated, when the first immigrants crossed a land bridge from northern Asia. Most Native Americans were nomadic hunter-gatherers, though some cultures, including the Mayans of Central America, were known for writing, astronomy, art, mathematics, and highly developed religions. With no natural immunity to European diseases and no way to compete with the newcomers’ superior firepower, many Native Americans died or were pushed out of their ancestral lands when European colonists arrived.",
                    "AsiaC": "Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Indian subcontinent meet here in a unique intersection of geography and cultures. Dry, desert basins cover most of the southern part of the region, until eastern Afghanistan soars suddenly into the Hindu Kush. This mountainous terrain dominates Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan before giving way to the northern steppe of Kazakhstan. It was this vast steppe, stretching from Eastern Europe to mainland China, that served as the overland trade route between East and West along the famous Silk Road.",
                    "AsiaE": "This ecologically diverse region extends in a broad arc from Siberia and Mongolia; south through China, Korea, and Japan; to the nations of Southeast Asia, including the Indonesian archipelago and the Philippines. More than 2 billion people live in this region, which is home to some of the oldest continuous civilizations on earth. Their contributions to world culture have been as broad and far-reaching as the landscape, from China’s “four great inventions” (gunpowder, the compass, papermaking, and printing) to video games.",
                    "AsiaS": "The Asia South region includes the modern-day nations of Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Bhutan and is home to approximately 20% of the world’s population. The Himalaya, Hindu Kush, and Karakoram ranges were formed here when the floating Indian tectonic plate smashed into southern Asia, giving birth to the world's tallest mountains. The first human migration out of Africa is thought to have followed a southern coastal route along the Indian subcontinent into Southeast Asia.",
                    "Caucasus": "The Greater Caucasus Range between the Black and Caspian Seas is the traditional dividing line between Europe and Asia. Though the Caucasus region is mostly Muslim, Georgia and Armenia have a long history of Christianity. Religiously, linguistically, culturally, and even ecologically diverse, this region is home to more than 50 ethnic groups and is one of 34 biodiversity hotspots in the world (areas where the existence of diverse plants and animals are significantly threatened).",
                    "NearEast": "The Middle East region includes the eastern Mediterranean coast, the Arabian Peninsula, and Iraq. Sitting between Eurasia and Africa, it is home to some of the world’s earliest civilizations. It is also the birthplace of three of the world’s major religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—with the most holy places of those faiths dotting the region from Jerusalem to Mecca. Since it was first inhabited, this vital region has been a natural center of learning, trade, and culture.",
                    "AngloSaxon": "About 12,000 years ago, sea levels were low enough for Stone Age hunter-gatherers to cross from northern Europe into what are now the islands of Great Britain. Farming came to the islands by about 4000 B.C., and the inhabitants erected their remarkable and puzzling stone monument like Stonehenge. The Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, and Normans all left their mark politically and culturally, but modern studies suggest that the earliest populations continued to exist by adapting and absorbing new arrivals.",
                    "Celtic": "Ireland’s modern culture remains deeply rooted in the Celtic culture that spread across much of Central Europe and into the British Isles. Along with Wales, Scotland, and a handful of other isolated communities within the British Isles, Ireland remains one of the last holdouts of the ancient Celtic languages that were once spoken throughout much of Western Europe. And though closely tied to Great Britain, both geographically and historically, the Irish have fiercely maintained their unique character through the centuries.",
                    "EuropeE": "Europe East stretches from the Baltic Sea in the north to the borders of Greece. Throughout history, this region has stood at the crossroads—and often in the crosshairs—of Europe and Central Asia. Huns, Bulgars, Magyars, Mongols, and Ottoman Turks are only some of the groups that moved through and influenced the region. Despite a steady stream of invasions and occupations, the region’s hearty people have left their mark on the world in fields from music to science.",
                    "EuropeW": "Stone Age farmers brought wheat, cows, and pigs to Western Europe from the Middle East between 8,000 and 6,000 years ago. Migrations and conquering armies followed, including Romans, Franks, Gauls, and Germanic tribes. Each helped make this region as culturally, linguistically, and ethnically diverse as its landscape, which stretches from Amsterdam's sea-level metropolis to the majestic peaks of the Alps and from the boisterous beer gardens of Munich to the sun-soaked vineyards of Bordeaux.",
                    "EuropeS": "This region gave rise to some of the most iconic cultures the Western world has known. The Greeks were first, with their pantheon of gods, legendary heroes, philosophers, and artists. The Classical Age of Greece began around the 5th century B.C. It was the era of Athens and Sparta, the birth of democracy, and many of Greece’s famous playwrights and philosophers. They subsequently influenced the Romans, whose vast empire spread its ideas and language across Europe and laid the foundations of Western civilization.",
                    "EuropeJe": "The dispersal of Jews from their homelands in the Levant left communities scattered throughout Europe, North Africa, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Although some Jewish communities enjoyed relative peace and prosperity, many more were segregated from mainstream society by laws, customs, and prejudice and faced ongoing persecution and discrimination. Jews from northern and eastern Europe are called “Ashkenazi.” Jews expelled from Spain during the Inquisition who settled in North Africa and southeastern Europe are called “Sephardic.”",
                    "UralVolga": "Although Finland shares long borders with Sweden and Norway, it stands apart in both language and ethnic identity. For much of its history, Finland was politically controlled by Sweden and Russia but gained its independence in 1917. Today Finland has a highly egalitarian society with strong, state-run social programs, including education and health care. Finland is often rated among the world’s best in education, economy, and quality of life and is the only Nordic country to join the Eurozone.",
                    "EuropeIb": "The Greeks named the region “Iberia” after the Ebro River. The Romans called it Hispania and introduced both Christianity and Latin, which would evolve into modern Spanish and Portuguese. Next, the Moors crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and built one of the most advanced civilizations on the continent, with universities, libraries, and hospitals. By time their last stronghold fell in 1492, the seafarers of Spain and Portugal were ready to carry their languages and cultures around the globe.",
                    "EuropeN": "Due to Scandinavia’s location, its natives have often been referred to as “North Men.” The Scandinavians have historically been renowned seafarers, and their adventures brought them into contact with much of the rest of Europe, sometimes as feared raiders and others as well-traveled merchants and tradesmen. Scandinavian sailor Leif Ericson is credited with being the first European to travel to North America—500 years before Christopher Columbus’s first voyage in 1492.",
                    "Melanesia": "The Melanesian region includes the continent of Australia, New Guinea, and the island chains of the Bismarck and Solomon Archipelagos. This area is home to some of the world’s “untouched” societies because isolation, rugged terrain, and few domesticated crops and animals helped perpetuate ancient technology and culture. In fact, today there are possibly more than 40 tribes in the mountains of Papua New Guinea that have never been exposed to modern society.",
                    "Polynesia": "The Polynesian Triangle lies in the Pacific Ocean, its three points being Hawaii, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), and New Zealand. With about 120,000 square miles of land spread across some 10 million square miles of water, Polynesia’s islands were among the last places to be settled by humans. Despite great distances separating the outer islands, the Polynesian people are linked by linguistic, cultural, and genetic ties. The people of New Zealand and Hawaii make up about 90% of Polynesia’s population.",
                    "Unknown": "Unknown"
                },
                "4": {
                    "AfricaN": "Our Northern Africa region includes much of the region referred to as the Maghreb. It's an area of stark contrast, with the hospitable Mediterranean coast to the north and the vast, harsh Sahara to the south. In fact, the majority of the population in this region lives within about 50 miles of the Atlantic or Mediterranean coasts.",
                    "AfricaSanPygmy": "Our Africa South-Central Hunter-Gatherers region is made up of ancient hunter-gatherer and pastoral groups who, though small in number and physical height, are considered the wellspring of human populations around the world. Increasingly, southern African Khoe-San groups and Central Africa’s Mbuti and Baka (Pygmy) groups are drawing the attention of scholars and researchers for their genetic diversity, ancient origins and unique cultural traditions.",
                    "AmericaN": "Your ethnicity estimate indicates that you have ancestry from the region that is home to many of the indigenous people of North, Central, and South America. This vast region includes the rugged territory of Alaska and Canada, the coasts and plains of the United States, the high plateaus of Mexico, and the mountains, rainforests, and highlands of Central and South America.",
                    "AmericaS": "Our Native American—Andean region stretches down the Pacific Coast of South America and includes the tallest peaks in the western hemisphere, as well as deserts and volcanoes. The Andes Mountains separate the coast from the rest of the interior, and the geography, including high plateaus where people could farm, has influenced settlement and culture throughout the region.",
                    "AngloSaxon": "The history of Britain, the heart of our England and Wales region, is often presented as one group of invaders after another displacing the native population. The Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, and Normans all left their mark on Britain both politically and culturally. However, the story of Britain is far more complex. In fact, modern studies suggest the earliest populations weren’t wiped out, but adapted and absorbed the new arrivals.",
                    "AsiaNE": "Climate and terrain has shaped the history and people of our Central and Northern Asia region, which extends from temperate grasslands in Kazakhstan to the frozen forests of Siberia. Kazakhstan can be translated as “land of wanderers,” and a nomadic, pastoral lifestyle has dominated this region since the Stone Age. Horses were probably domesticated on the vast Eurasian steppes, and for centuries fearsome warriors on horseback, including Genghis Khan, founded empires that at one point stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the Black Sea.",
                    "AsiaS": "Our Asia South region reaches from the modern-day nation of Afghanistan through India to Bangladesh and is home to approximately 20 percent of the world’s population. The mighty mountain ranges of the Himalaya, Hindu Kush and Karakoram were formed here around 75 million years ago when the floating Indian tectonic plate smashed into southern Asia, giving birth to the world's tallest mountains peaks. These include Mount Everest, known to the Nepalese as “Sagarmatha.”",
                    "Balochistan": "Geologists have compared the arid landscape of Balochistan to Mars. Modern-day Balochistan is the largest province in Pakistan, though historically the “land of the Baloch” included parts of southeastern Iran and southern Afghanistan, which are reflected in our Balochistan region as well. It’s a dry land of mountains, high plateaus, and deserts and home to a rugged people known for their commitment to both honor and hospitality.",
                    "Baltic": "Thousands of years ago, the early ancestors of the peoples in our Baltic States region migrated in from the east and south. They entered a landscape of low-lying plains, thousands of lakes, and millions of acres of forest, a beautiful boundary zone straddling eastern and western Europe. Inhabitants have seen Vikings, crusading Teutonic Knights, empires, and Communism come and go, but they have maintained an attachment to land, culture, and freedom.",
                    "Basque": "Basque history has long been shrouded in mystery. The Basque country lies on the Bay of Biscay and in the western Pyrenees Mountains, with four provinces in Spain and three in France. The Basques have been living there longer than anyone can remember. Their language is probably the oldest in modern Europe and appears to be unrelated to any other known language in the world. Despite being an ancient people, the Basques currently have no nation of their own. They’re defined by being Basque—not by borders.",
                    "BeninTogo": "For years, anthropologists and others looked at African ethnic groups as being mostly solitary and static. However, historians now know that huge empires and kingdoms, with administrations and armies, diplomatic corps and distant trading partners, have long been part of Africa’s fabric. This is especially true of West Africa, where migrations, conquests and intermarriage within allied kingdoms help explain why, for example, 43% of people from our Benin/Togo region have DNA that looks similar to the profile for our Ivory Coast/Ghana region, and 28% similar to the profile for Nigeria.",
                    "Burusho": "Our Burusho region is named for a people who live in the high Hunza, Nagar, and Yasin Valleys in the Gilgit-Baltistan territory of northern Pakistan. Their villages lie at elevations of 9,000 feet, surrounded by the ice fields and towering peaks of the Karakoram Mountains. They lived a fairly isolated life until the Karakoram Highway connected Pakistan and China in 1978.",
                    "CameroonCongo": "Extending through the heart of Africa, our Cameroon, Congo, and Southern Bantu Peoples region winds through tropical rainforest, humid savanna, and semi-arid desert. Starting about 3,000 years ago, Bantu-speaking peoples spread from an area around eastern modern-day Cameroon and Nigeria through much of sub-Saharan Africa in one of the greatest migrations in human history. Today the region is home to unrivaled ethnic and linguistic diversity.",
                    "Celtic": "Located in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales remain linked to Celtic culture. Along with a handful of other isolated communities within the British Isles, are some of the last holdouts of the ancient Celtic languages that were once spoken throughout much of Western Europe. And though closely tied to Great Britain, both geographically and historically, all three have maintained their unique character through the centuries.",
                    "China": "Our China region is home to more than one billion people and some of the oldest continuous civilizations on earth. Chinese contributions to world culture, including its four great inventions of gunpowder, the compass, papermaking, and printing, have been as broad and far-reaching as its landscape. Chinese emigrants have also spread their culture by establishing populations throughout much of Southeast Asia.",
                    "Dai": "Most modern-day inhabitants in our Southeast Asia—Dai (Tai) region live in or around China’s Yunnan Province in China, on the boundary where China meets Southeast Asia both geographically and culturally. However, people have made their homes in the mountains and river valleys, including the floodplains of the Mekong, for thousands of years. They were among the first in Asia to use oxen to plow, artifacts from the Greek and Roman Empires show longstanding trade between east and west, and they were influenced by both Indian and Chinese culture.",
                    "EuropeJe": "Our European Jewish region is not geographically defined in the same way as most other regions. The historic dispersal of the Jewish population from its origin in the Levant on the east coast of the Mediterranean resulted in insular communities scattered throughout Europe, North Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East. Although some Jewish communities enjoyed positions of relative peace and prosperity, many more were segregated from mainstream society by law, custom and prejudice, experiencing sustained persecution and discrimination. Jewish populations from northern and eastern Europe are often known as “Ashkenazi.” “Sephardic” refers to Jews who were expelled from Spain during the Inquisition and mostly settled in North Africa and southeastern Europe.",
                    "France": "Our France region is known for both the splendor of Paris and its picturesque countryside of plains and rolling hills checkered with fields and hedgerows. Evidence of human life in France, including the stunning galleries of Stone Age paintings in Lascaux Cave, stretches back long before recorded history. Today’s French are mostly urban dwellers and can trace their roots to several key groups who made their way into l’Hexagone starting about 2,500 years ago.",
                    "Germany": "The dramatic landscape of our Germanic Europe region rises from Dutch and German lowlands along the North Sea through forested uplands to the Austria’s Alps in the south. The German people were united by language and culture before Germany became a united country in 1871. Known as Das Land der Dichter und Denker (“the land of poets and thinkers”), Germany is home to some of the oldest universities in the world, and this region has a long tradition of producing world-class scientists, inventors, theologians, artists, and composers.",
                    "GreeceAlbania": "Located along Europe’s southern edge, our Greece and the Balkans region rises from beautiful seashores to lands broken by rugged mountains. In fact, Balkan is related to the Turkish and Bulgarian words for a chain of mountains. For centuries, the divided lands of this region have seen a clash of peoples, cultures, religions, and ideas. The Greeks, founders of Western civilization, were followed by the Romans and then the Christians. Bulgars and Slavs arrived in the 6th century, and later, came Islam and the Ottoman Turks, creating a mix of peoples and nations as varied as the landscape.",
                    "Gujarati": "Our Gujarat region includes the Kathiawar Peninsula and stretches eastward into modern-day Rajasthan, Maharashtra, and Madhya Pradesh. It is a land of both seaports and deserts, with a history that stretches back to the ancient Indus Valley Civilization. Empires have come and gone, but for centuries, its people have been fabled traders and merchants, and their keen sense for business has spread their descendants throughout much of India and the wider world.",
                    "Italy": "Our Italy region is centered on the boot-shaped Italian peninsula, with the Alps in the north, the Mediterranean Sea on the south, and the Apennine mountain range running lengthwise down the middle. The area has been settled and invaded by a long list of peoples, including the early Etruscans who predated Rome, Greeks in the south, and Germanic invaders from the north.  As the heart of the Roman Empire, seat of the Roman Catholic Church, and birthplace of the Renaissance, this region has created a vibrant legacy of art, trade, and culture to rival any.",
                    "IvoryGhana": "Early French and Portuguese explorers identified sections of the West African coast by the area’s resources, which is how Côte d'Ivoire, part of  our Ivory Coast and Ghana region, got its name. Neighboring Ghana was known as the Gold Coast until it won independence from colonial rule in 1957 and renamed itself after a medieval West African empire. Today, more than 46 million people live in the two countries, which depend less on gold and ivory than they do chocolate: Ivory Coast and Ghana produce more than half of the world’s cocoa.",
                    "Japan": "Our Japan region includes the string of islands stretching some 1,500 miles that make up the modern nation of Japan. Most of the country’s land and population is found on four islands, and about four-fifths of the country is mountainous. Japan’s nickname “Land of the Rising Sun” actually comes from its position east of the mainland. But while Japan’s history is linked to China, Korea, and northeast Asia, being an island nation led Japan to develop a language, culture, and identity very much its own.",
                    "Korea": "Geography has always helped shape our Korea and Northern China region’s identity. The mountainous Korean peninsula juts southward between China and Japan, with wide river floodplains that are perfect for growing rice. From there, the region stretches from the Northeast China Plain, through the grasslands and deserts of Inner Mongolia. Much of the region’s history has been defined by competing forces pushing—and pushing back—eastward and westward.",
                    "Luhya": "Home some of our earliest human ancestors, our Africa East region was populated in part by people who came from the west as part of the Bantu migrations, one of the greatest movements of people in history. Eastern equatorial Africa is now home to scores of ethnic groups and languages. It’s also known for spectacular landscapes, including Africa’s largest lake (Lake Victoria), its tallest peak (Mount Kilimanjaro), and world-famous wildlife reserves.",
                    "Mali": "Mali’s modern boundaries were drawn in 1890, when French Sudan was created, and united two very different regions: the Sudanian savannas in the south and the Sahara Desert to the north. These man-made borders make our Mali region a mix of diverse peoples, but geography has always played a key role in Mali’s history and people. The savannas at the edge of the desert made the area a natural locus for trans-Saharan trade, which connected western Africa with Europe and Asia in precolonial times. For centuries, Mali was a fabled land of gold, scholarship and empires.",
                    "Melanesia": "Including the continent of Australia, New Guinea and the island chains of the Bismarck and Solomon Archipelagos, our Melanesian region is home to some of the worlds' best-preserved primitive societies. The ancient populations of Melanesia remained mostly separated from the rest of the world for tens of thousands of years. A combination of geographical isolation, rugged terrain and few crops and animals suitable for domestication led to the perpetuation of ancient technology and culture.",
                    "NearEast": "Geography and human history have kept this region perpetually in the spotlight. It sits between Eurasia and Africa and is home to some of the world’s earliest civilizations. It is also the birthplace of three of the world’s major religions—Judaism, Christianity and Islam—with the most holy places of those faiths scattered from Jerusalem to Mecca. Since it was first inhabited, this vital region has been a natural center of learning, trade, culture—and conflict.",
                    "Nigeria": "Our Nigeria region includes the most populous country in Africa, with more than 168 million people living in an area about twice the size of California. In fact, Nigeria has six cities with populations over 1 million (the United States has nine). From its tropical south to the arid north, Nigeria as a country is a concept and product of colonialism, bringing together more than 250 ethnic groups within fairly arbitrary borders.",
                    "Norway": "The earliest inhabitants of our Norway region were strong, seafaring peoples. For centuries, hunter-gatherers slowly pushed north across the Baltic Sea, probing coastal fjords and inland stretches for arable land as ice melted off the untamed region. While Norwegians, Swedes, and Danes all share a common Norse heritage, over time, Norway’s resilient coastal communities evolved into a nation known for its seamanship, technology, artistry, and mythology.",
                    "Persian": "Mountains are the defining feature of our Iran/Persia region’s landscape, from the Greater Caucasus in Azerbaijan to the Kopet Dag range along the border of Iran and Turkmenistan. High plateaus and deserts are also common the further east you go. It’s the land of the ancient Persian Empire, once ruled by Cyrus the Great, and still home to a variety of languages, literature, and cultures that have proved more lasting than any kingdom.",
                    "Philippines": "Our Philippines region is centered on a group of islands in the western Pacific Ocean. Taiwan is to the north and Indonesia to the south. More than 7,000 islands make up the Philippines, yet most of the republic’s 100 million people live on less than a dozen. Another 12 million Filipinos live outside the country.",
                    "Polynesia": "Most of our Polynesia region’s islands lie within a triangular area in the Pacific Ocean. The Polynesian Triangle’s “points” are Hawaii, Easter Island (Rapu Nui) and New Zealand. It’s a world defined by the ocean. With about 120,000 square miles of land spread across some 10 million square miles of water, Polynesia’s islands were among the last places on Earth to be settled by humans. Despite great distances separating the outer islands, the Polynesian people are linked by linguistic, cultural and genetic ties.",
                    "Portugal": "Geography contributed to the separate people, language, and nation-state that lie at the heart of our Portugal region. It shares its northern and eastern borders with Spain on the western edge of the Iberian Peninsula. Mountains in the north give way to rolling plains in the south, while the Atlantic to the west and south led to a seafaring tradition that enabled the Portuguese to establish a trading empire that circled the globe.",
                    "Sardinian": "Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean after Sicily. Its craggy mountains pushed up from the ocean in the Paleozoic era more than 250 million years ago. Rome, Spain, and Italy have all left their mark on Sardinian history, but even in the face of outside influences, the island has developed and maintained a culture, language, and cuisine of its own.",
                    "Senegal": "Africa’s westernmost nation, the namesake of our Senegal region, lies about 1,000 miles above the equator and boasts miles of beaches along the Atlantic. It’s bordered by Mauritania, Mali, Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau and almost completely encircles the Gambia. The country’s current population is just about evenly divided between urban and rural dwellers, with more than 2 million Senegalese now living in and around the capital city of Dakar. Senegal is widely known for its music, including mbalax (“rhythm” in Wolof, the working language of Senegal) and dazzling sabar drumming.",
                    "Slavic": "Our Eastern Europe and Russia region stretches from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Adriatic in the south. The landscape is a mix of mountains, rivers, and plains, and stands at the crossroads of Europe and Central Asia. By the 5th century A.D. Slavic peoples were moving west into modern-day central Europe, followed by Magyars, who settled Hungary. The Slavic peoples are now the largest linguistic and ethnic group in Europe, and the region’s legacy of beauty and civilization lives on in famed world cities such as Prague, Kiev, Moscow, and Budapest.",
                    "Spain": "The heart of our Spain region lies in the Iberian Peninsula, framed by the granite peaks and plunging falls of the Pyrenees on the French border in the north and sunny Mediterranean beaches in the south. This region has seen a long parade of invaders, including Celts, Romans, and Germanic Visigoths. Under Muslim rule, it was home to some of the most advanced societies in Europe. Then, during the Age of Discovery, Spaniards founded a world empire that established Spanish as the second-most spoken native language to this day.",
                    "Sweden": "With its rocky coastline, wooded uplands, and subarctic, mountainous terrain, our Sweden region emerged from glacial ice as a rugged land of lakes and islands. The Swedish people share a common Norse heritage with Norway and, especially, Denmark that includes language, religion, and art, but they eventually developed a culture of their own. Situated north of the Baltic Sea, geographic isolation from conflicts raging on the European continent did not stop the Swedes from influencing the culture, trade, and politics of regions from the Volga River to Byzantium.",
                    "TurkeyArmenia": "Our Turkey and Armenia region is home to the world’s oldest known leather shoe and winery. Both were found in the Armenian Highlands, which was also the birthplace of ironworking—and some say the Garden of Eden. The Anatolian Plateau stretches to the west, rugged, mountainous country that slopes down to the shores of the Aegean Sea. As a physical bridge between Europe and Asia, this region has seen empires—Greeks, Persians, Romans, Ottomans—come and go for thousands of years.",
                    "UralVolga": "Finland is one of the Nordic nations, straddling the Arctic Circle north of continental Europe. Although it shares long borders with the Scandinavian nations of Sweden and Norway, our Finland region stands apart in both language and ethnic identity. Politically controlled by its neighbors Sweden and Russia through much of its history, Finland today is a strong, independent nation with a unique, ancient heritage.",
                    "Vietnam": "The peninsula at the center of our Southeast Asia—Vietnam region is home to peoples who trace their ancestry back to the time of myth. Rivers, such as the famous Mekong, run between mountain ranges and often end in large lowland deltas, and the climate is shaped by monsoons that bring wet and dry seasons as the prevailing winds change directions. The cooperation required to build the dams, dikes, and canals vital to farming led people to form states and develop societies that borrowed from both Indian and Chinese cultures while maintaining languages, identities, and customs that set them apart."
                }
            },
            "countries": {
                "primary": {
                    "2": {
                        "AfricaBantu": "South Africa, Kenya, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Angola, Tanzania, Mozambique, Uganda",
                        "AfricaN": "Morocco, Western Sahara, Algeria, Libya",
                        "AfricaSanPygmy": "South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Congo",
                        "BeninTogo": "Benin, Togo",
                        "CameroonCongo": "Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Republic of Congo",
                        "IvoryGhana": "Ivory Coast, Ghana",
                        "Mali": "Mali, Guinea",
                        "Nigeria": "Nigeria",
                        "Senegal": "Senegal, the Gambia",
                        "AfricaCameroonCongoBantu": "Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Republic of Congo, South Africa, Lesotho, Kenya, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Angola, Tanzania, Mozambique, Uganda",
                        "America": "North America, Central America, South America",
                        "AmericaNorth": "Canada, United States, Mexico",
                        "AmericaSouth": "Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela",
                        "AsiaC": "Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan",
                        "AsiaCV3": "Afghanistan, China, Mongolia",
                        "AsiaE": "Russia, China, North Korea, South Korea, Mongolia, Myanmar (Burma), Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Singapore, Brunei, Palau",
                        "AsiaS": "India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka",
                        "AsiaEV3": "China, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam",
                        "AsiaJapan": "Japan",
                        "AsiaNorthEast": "",
                        "AsiaPhilippines": "",
                        "AsiaSiberia": "",
                        "Caucasus": "Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey",
                        "NearEast": "Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Oman, Yemen, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Lebanon, Israel",
                        "AngloSaxon": "England, Scotland, Wales",
                        "Celtic": "Ireland, Wales, Scotland",
                        "EuropeE": "Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria, Russia, Hungary, Slovenia, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Lithuania, Latvia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia",
                        "EuropeW": "Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein",
                        "EuropeS": "Italy, Greece",
                        "EuropeJe": "Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Hungary, Israel",
                        "UralVolga": "Finland, Russia (northwest)",
                        "EuropeIb": "Spain, Portugal",
                        "EuropeN": "Sweden, Norway, Denmark",
                        "EuropeSardinia": "",
                        "EuropeBasque": "Spain, France",
                        "Melanesia": "Papua New Guinea, Bougainville, Fiji, Aboriginal Australia",
                        "Polynesia": "Tonga, Samoa",
                        "Unknown": ""
                    },
                    "4": {
                        "AfricaN": "Morocco, Western Sahara, Algeria",
                        "AfricaSanPygmy": "South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon",
                        "AmericaN": "Canada, United States, Mexico, Caribbean countries, Guatemala,  Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay",
                        "AmericaS": "Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador",
                        "AngloSaxon": "England, Scotland, Wales",
                        "AsiaNE": "Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Northern China, Russia/Siberia",
                        "AsiaS": "India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka",
                        "Balochistan": "Pakistan",
                        "Baltic": "Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania",
                        "Basque": "Spain, France",
                        "BeninTogo": "Benin, Togo",
                        "Burusho": "Pakistan",
                        "CameroonCongo": "Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Lesotho, South Africa, Swaziland, Rwanda, Burundi",
                        "Celtic": "Ireland, Wales, Scotland",
                        "China": "China, Taiwan",
                        "Dai": "China, Laos",
                        "EuropeJe": "Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Hungary, Israel",
                        "France": "France",
                        "Germany": "Germany",
                        "GreeceAlbania": "Albania, Greece, Macedonia, Kosovo",
                        "Gujarati": "India",
                        "Italy": "Italy, San Marino, Vatican City, Malta",
                        "IvoryGhana": "Ivory Coast, Ghana",
                        "Japan": "Japan",
                        "Korea": "China, Korea",
                        "Luhya": "Kenya, Uganda",
                        "Mali": "Mali, Guinea",
                        "Melanesia": "Papua New Guinea, Australia, Vanuatu",
                        "NearEast": "Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Oman, Yemen, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Lebanon, Israel, Qatar, Bahrain, Egypt",
                        "Nigeria": "Nigeria",
                        "Norway": "Norway",
                        "Persian": "Iran",
                        "Philippines": "Philippines",
                        "Polynesia": "Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, Tuvalu, Kiribati, French Polynesia, Cook Islands, Palau",
                        "Portugal": "Portugal",
                        "Sardinian": "Sardinia",
                        "Senegal": "Senegal, the Gambia",
                        "Slavic": "Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria, Russia, Hungary, Slovenia, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia",
                        "Spain": "Spain",
                        "Sweden": "Sweden",
                        "TurkeyArmenia": "Armenia, Georgia, Turkey",
                        "UralVolga": "Finland, Russia (northwest)",
                        "Vietnam": "Vietnam"
                    },
                    "located": "Primarily located in:"
                },
                "secondary": {
                    "2": {
                        "AfricaBantu": "Nigeria, Congo",
                        "AfricaN": "Libya, Tunisia, Chad, Portugal",
                        "AfricaSanPygmy": "Angola, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya",
                        "BeninTogo": "Ghana, Nigeria, Mali",
                        "CameroonCongo": "Angola, Chad",
                        "IvoryGhana": "Benin, Togo, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal",
                        "Mali": "Ivory Coast, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Senegal",
                        "Nigeria": "Niger, Benin, Cameroon, Congo",
                        "Senegal": "Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania",
                        "AfricaCameroonCongoBantu": "Nigeria, Chad",
                        "America": "",
                        "AmericaN": "",
                        "AmericaS": "",
                        "AsiaC": "Iran, Pakistan",
                        "AsiaCV3": "Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan",
                        "AsiaE": "",
                        "AsiaS": "Myanmar (Burma)",
                        "AsiaEV3": "Myanmar (Burma), Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia",
                        "AsiaJapan": "North Korea, South Korea",
                        "AsiaNorthEast": "",
                        "AsiaPhilippines": "",
                        "AsiaSiberia": "",
                        "Caucasus": "Bulgaria, Jordan, Greece, Italy, Kuwait, Palestine, Romania, Turkmenistan",
                        "NearEast": "Iran, Pakistan",
                        "AngloSaxon": "Ireland, France, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Italy",
                        "Celtic": "France, England",
                        "EuropeE": "Germany, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Estonia, Bulgaria",
                        "EuropeW": "England, Denmark, Italy, Slovenia, Czech Republic",
                        "EuropeS": "France, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, Serbia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Austria, Croatia, Bosnia, Romania, Turkey, Slovenia, Algeria, Tunisia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Kosovo",
                        "EuropeJe": "Germany, France, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Romania, Bosnia, Serbia, Estonia",
                        "UralVolga": "Estonia, Latvia, Sweden, Lithuania",
                        "EuropeIb": "France, Morocco, Algeria, Italy",
                        "EuropeN": "Great Britain, France, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, the Baltic States, Finland",
                        "EuropeSardinia": "",
                        "EuropeBasque": "",
                        "Melanesia": "Solomon Islands, New Caledonia",
                        "Polynesia": "Fiji, New Zealand (Maori), Micronesia, Philippines, Melanesia, Hawaii",
                        "Unknown": ""
                    },
                    "4": {
                        "AfricaN": "Spain, Portugal, The Middle East",
                        "AfricaSanPygmy": "Angola, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti, Lesotho, Swaziland, Republic of Congo",
                        "AmericaN": "Ecuador, Argentina, Chile",
                        "AmericaS": "Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Paraguay, Uruguay, Guyana",
                        "AngloSaxon": "Ireland, France, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Luxembourg",
                        "AsiaNE": "China, Kazakhstan,  Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan",
                        "AsiaS": "Myanmar (Burma)",
                        "Balochistan": "Iran, Oman",
                        "Baltic": "Belarus, Russia, Poland, Ukraine",
                        "Basque": "",
                        "BeninTogo": "Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Mali, Sierra Leone, Gabon",
                        "Burusho": "",
                        "CameroonCongo": "Botswana, Central African Republic, Nigeria, Chad, Gabon, Kenya,  Tanzania, Uganda, Sao Tome and Principe, Equatorial Guinea",
                        "Celtic": "France, England",
                        "China": "Malaysia, Myanmar",
                        "Dai": "Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia",
                        "EuropeJe": "Germany, France, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Romania, Bosnia, Serbia, Estonia",
                        "France": "Andorra, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, Monaco, Spain, Switzerland",
                        "Germany": "Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark",
                        "GreeceAlbania": "Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Turkey",
                        "Gujarati": "",
                        "Italy": "Turkey, Switzerland, Greece",
                        "IvoryGhana": "Benin, Togo, Mali, Senegal, Liberia, Sierra Leone",
                        "Japan": "",
                        "Korea": "Nepal",
                        "Luhya": "Burundi, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania",
                        "Mali": "Ivory Coast, Ghana, Senegal, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Niger",
                        "Melanesia": "Fiji",
                        "NearEast": "Iraq, Sudan, Libya, Tunisia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Cyprus",
                        "Nigeria": "Niger, Central African Republic",
                        "Norway": "Sweden, Denmark",
                        "Persian": "Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Turkey, Georgia",
                        "Philippines": "Indonesia, Malaysia (Borneo)",
                        "Polynesia": "New Zealand (Maori), Hawaii",
                        "Portugal": "Spain",
                        "Sardinian": "Italy",
                        "Senegal": "Guinea-Bissau, Guinea",
                        "Slavic": "Germany, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan",
                        "Spain": "Portugal, France",
                        "Sweden": "Denmark",
                        "TurkeyArmenia": "Iraq, Azerbaijan, Cyprus",
                        "UralVolga": "Estonia, Sweden",
                        "Vietnam": "Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Indonesia"
                    },
                    "found": "Also found in:"
                }
            },
            "admixture": {
                "heading": "Genetic Diversity in the $t(ethnicity.region.name.{{ version }}.{{ regionId }}) Region",
                "AfricaBantu": "Individuals from the Africa Southeastern Bantu region are admixed, which means that when creating genetic ethnicity estimates for people native to this area, we frequently see see similarities to DNA profiles from other regions. We’ve found that approximately 72% of the typical Southeastern Bantu region native’s DNA comes from this region.",
                "AfricaN": "People living in the Africa North region are not very admixed, which means that when creating ethnicity estimates for people native to this region, we don’t often see similarities to DNA profiles from other nearby regions. We’ve found that approximately 100% of the typical Africa North native’s DNA comes from this region.",
                "AfricaSanPygmy": "Individuals from the Africa South-Central Hunter-Gatherers region are admixed, which means that when creating genetic ethnicity estimates for people native to this area, we frequently see similarities to DNA profiles from other nearby regions. We’ve found that approximately 86% of the typical South-Central Hunter-Gatherer’s DNA comes from this region.",
                "BeninTogo": "The people living in the Benin/Togo region are admixed, which means that when creating genetic ethnicity estimates for people native to this area, we sometimes see similarities to DNA profiles from other regions. We’ve found that approximately 82% of the typical Benin/Togo native’s DNA comes from this region.",
                "CameroonCongo": "People living in the Cameroon/Congo region today are less admixed than people in most other regions, which means that when creating genetic ethnicity estimates for natives to this area, we sometimes see small similarities to DNA profiles from other nearby regions. We’ve found that approximately 92% of the typical Cameroon/Congo native’s DNA comes from this region.",
                "IvoryGhana": "People living in the Ivory Coast/Ghana region are only somewhat admixed, which means that when creating genetic ethnicity estimates for people native to this area, we sometimes see similarities to DNA profiles from other nearby regions. We’ve found that approximately 86% of the typical Ivory Coast/Ghana native’s DNA comes from this region.",
                "Mali": "People living in the Mali region are quite admixed, which means that when creating genetic ethnicity estimates for people native to this area, we frequently see similarities to DNA profiles from other nearby regions. In fact, we’ve found that only approximately 39% of the typical Mali native’s DNA comes from the Mali region.",
                "Nigeria": "The people living in Nigeria are among the most admixed of any of our regions, which means that when creating ethnicity estimates for people native to this area, we usually see similarities to DNA profiles from nearby regions. We’ve found that approximately 69% of the typical Nigeria native’s DNA comes from this region.",
                "Senegal": "People living in the Senegal region are not very admixed, which means that when creating genetic ethnicity estimates for people native to this area, we don’t often see similarities to DNA profiles from other nearby regions. We’ve found that about 100% of the typical Senegal native’s DNA comes from this region.",
                "America": "Individuals from the Native American region are much less admixed than individuals from most other regions. This means that when creating genetic ethnicity estimates for people native to this area, we rarely see similarities to DNA profiles from other regions. We’ve found that approximately 100% of the typical native’s DNA comes from this region.",
                "AsiaC": "Individuals from the Asia Central region are admixed, which means that when creating genetic ethnicity estimates for people native to this area, we frequently see similarities to DNA profiles from other nearby regions. We’ve found that approximately 72% of the typical Asia Central native’s DNA comes from this region.",
                "AsiaE": "The people living in the Asia East region today are slightly admixed, which means that when creating genetic ethnicity estimates for people native to this area, we sometimes see similarities to DNA profiles from other nearby regions. We’ve found that 100% of the typical native’s DNA comes from this region.",
                "AsiaS": "Like most of our identified regions, the Asia South region is admixed, which means that when creating ethnicity estimates for people native to this region, we frequently see similarities to DNA profiles from other nearby regions. The typical person born in this region today has about 85% of his or her DNA from this region.",
                "Caucasus": "People living in the Caucasus region today are admixed, which means that when creating genetic ethnicity estimates for people native to this area, we frequently see similarities to DNA profiles from other nearby regions. We’ve found that approximately 83% of the typical native’s DNA comes from this region.",
                "NearEast": "People living in the Middle East region today are admixed, which means that when creating genetic ethnicity estimates for people native to this area, we frequently see similarities to DNA profiles from other regions. We’ve found that approximately 69% of the typical Middle East native’s DNA comes from this region.",
                "AngloSaxon": "The people living in the Great Britain region today are more admixed than most other regions, which means that when creating genetic ethnicity estimates for people native to this area, we often see similarities to DNA profiles from other nearby regions. We’ve found that approximately 60% of the typical native’s DNA comes from this region.",
                "Celtic": "People living in the Ireland region today have a slightly admixed genetic structure, which means that when creating genetic ethnicity estimates for people native to this area, we see some similarities to DNA profiles from other nearby regions. We’ve found that approximately 95% of a typical Irish native’s DNA comes from the region of Ireland.",
                "EuropeE": "Individuals from Europe East are admixed, which means that when creating genetic ethnicity estimates for people native to this area, we frequently see similarities to DNA profiles from other nearby regions. We’ve found that approximately 82% of the typical native’s DNA comes from this region.",
                "EuropeW": "The people living in the Europe West region are among the most admixed of all our regions, which means that when creating genetic ethnicity estimates for people native to this area, we often see similarities to DNA profiles from other nearby regions. We’ve found that approximately 48% of the typical native’s DNA comes from this region.",
                "EuropeS": "The people living in the Italy/Greece region are admixed, which means that when creating genetic ethnicity estimates for individuals native to this area, we frequently see some similarities to DNA profiles from other nearby regions. We’ve found that approximately 72% of the typical native’s DNA comes from this region.",
                "EuropeJe": "The people living in the European Jewish region are much less admixed than most other regions, which means that when creating ethnicity estimates for people native to this area, we rarely see similarities to DNA profiles from other nearby regions. We’ve found that approximately 96% of the typical native’s DNA comes from this region.",
                "UralVolga": "Individuals from the Finland/Northwest Russia region are less admixed, which means that when creating genetic ethnicity estimates for people native to this area, we sometimes see similarities to DNA profiles from other nearby regions. We’ve found that approximately 99% of the typical native’s DNA comes from this region.",
                "EuropeIb": "The people living in the Iberian Peninsula region are fairly admixed, which means that when creating genetic ethnicity estimates for people native to this area, we see similarities to DNA profiles from other nearby regions. We’ve found that approximately 51% of the typical native’s DNA comes from this region.",
                "EuropeN": "The people living in the Scandinavia region today are slightly admixed, which means that when creating genetic ethnicity estimates for people native to this area, we see some similarities to DNA profiles from other nearby regions. We’ve found that approximately 84% of the typical native’s DNA comes from this region.",
                "Melanesia": "The people living in the Melanesia region are less admixed than most other regions, which means that when creating genetic ethnicity estimates for people native to this area, we rarely see even small amounts of similarities to DNA profiles from other nearby regions. We’ve found that approximately 100% of the typical native’s DNA comes from this region.",
                "Polynesia": "The people living in the Polynesia region are much less admixed than most other regions, which means that when creating genetic ethnicity estimates for people native to this area, we rarely see traces of DNA profiles from other regions. We’ve found that approximately 100% of the typical native’s DNA comes from this region."
            },
            "compare": {
                "AfricaBantu": "We have used our reference panel to build a genetic profile for the Africa Southeastern Bantu region. The blue chart above shows examples of ethnicity estimates for people native to this region. For most natives, between 58% and 100% of their DNA looks similar to our profile. It’s also possible, however, to find people whose DNA shows very little similarity, some as little as 14%. For people with DNA from other regions, the most common is the neighboring Cameroon/Congo region—about 44% of people from the Africa Southeastern Bantu region have at least some DNA from Cameroon/Congo. In addition, about 39% of people from the Africa Southeastern Bantu region have some DNA from the Africa South-Central Hunter-Gatherers region. (See green chart above.)",
                "AfricaN": "We’ve used our reference panel to build a genetic profile for the Africa North region. The blue chart above shows examples of ethnicity estimates for people native to the region. For North Africa, we see a very narrow range: for most people native to the area, about 100% of their DNA looks similar to the profile. However there are some exceptions, and we have found people with as little as 36% of their DNA similar to this region. For those with DNA from neighboring regions, about 15% of North Africa natives have at least some DNA similar to people from the Middle East or the Italy/Greece regions. (See green chart above.)",
                "AfricaSanPygmy": "We have used our reference panel to build a genetic profile for the Africa South-Central Hunter-Gatherers region. The blue chart above shows examples of ethnicity estimates for people native to this region. For this region we see a substantial range: for most natives to this area, between 74% and 100% of their DNA looks similar to the profile. However, for others, as little as 62% of their DNA comes from this region. The other region most commonly found is the neighboring Cameroon/Congo region. About 54% of people from the Africa South-Central Hunter-Gatherers region have at least some DNA from Cameroon/Congo. (See the green chart above.)",
                "BeninTogo": "We have used our reference panel to build a genetic profile for Benin/Togo. The blue chart above shows examples of ethnicity estimates for people native to this region. For Benin/Togo we see a fairly wide range: for some natives, as little as 28% of their DNA comes from the region, while for others, 100% looks similar to the profile. For Benin/Togo natives with DNA from neighboring regions, we most commonly see the Ivory Coast/Ghana region. About 43% of Benin/Togo natives have DNA from Ivory Coast/Ghana, while another 28% have DNA similar to the profile for Nigeria. (See the green chart above.)",
                "CameroonCongo": "We’ve used our reference panel to build a genetic profile for the Cameroon/Congo region. The blue chart above shows examples of ethnicity estimates for people native to the region. For Cameroon/Congo we see a fairly narrow range: for most people native to the area, between 83% and 100% of their DNA looks similar to the profile. However, we also found people with as little as 45% of their DNA coming from the region. The other regions most commonly found are the neighboring Nigeria and Africa Southeastern Bantu regions. About 21% of people from the Cameroon/Congo region have at least some DNA from these regions. (See green chart above.)",
                "IvoryGhana": "We have used our reference panel to build a genetic profile for the Ivory Coast/Ghana region. The blue chart above shows examples of ethnicity estimates for people native to the area. For most natives, between 86% and 100% of their DNA looks similar to this profile. However, others have as little as 59%, or even none, of their DNA coming from this region. The other regions most commonly found are the neighboring Benin/Togo, Mali and Nigeria regions. About 43% of people from the Ivory Coast/Ghana region have at least some DNA from Benin/Togo. (See the green chart above.)",
                "Mali": "We have used our reference panel to build a genetic profile for the Mali region. The blue chart above shows examples of ethnicity estimates for people native to the area. For this region we see a very wide range: for natives of the region, anywhere from 14% to 100% of their DNA may look similar to the profile. It is unclear whether this wide range should be attributed to the sample size tested or to normal genetic diversity in the area. The typical person native to this area displays an ethnicity estimate of only 39%, which means 61% of his or her DNA is more similar to other regions, such as the neighboring Ivory Coast/Ghana and Senegal regions. About 69% of people from the Mali region have at least some DNA similar to profiles from these two regions. (See green chart above.)",
                "Nigeria": "We have used our reference panel to build a genetic profile for the Nigeria region. The blue chart above shows examples of ethnicity estimates for people native to this region. For the Nigeria region, we see an extremely wide range: for some natives to the area, 100% of their DNA looks similar to the profile, while others do not look similar to the region at all. For Nigeria natives with DNA from neighboring regions, we most commonly see similarities to the profile for Benin/Togo. About 45% of people from the Nigeria region have at least some DNA from Benin/Togo. (See the green chart above.)",
                "Senegal": "We have used our reference panel to build a genetic profile for Senegal. The blue chart above shows examples of ethnicity estimates for people native to this region. For Senegal, we see a very narrow range. For most natives, between 80% and 100% of their DNA looks similar to the profile. However there are some exceptions, and we see some with as little as 52% of their DNA from this region. For those who show similarity to DNA profiles from neighboring regions, about 46% have at least some DNA from the Mali region. (See green chart above.)",
                "America": "We’ve used our reference panel to build a genetic profile for the Native American region. The blue chart above shows examples of ethnicity estimates for people native to the area. For this region, we see a very narrow range: for most people native to the area, about 100% of their DNA looks similar to the profile. However, there are some exceptions, and we have a small minority with as little as 84% of their DNA similar to this region. For those who do share DNA with other regions, about 8% have at least some DNA similar to the profile for the Iberian Peninsula region, which was likely introduced by Spanish and Portuguese explorers. (See green chart above.)",
                "AsiaC": "We have used our reference panel to build a genetic profile for the Asia Central region. The blue chart above shows examples of ethnicity estimates for people native to the region. For Asia Central we see a wide range—for most natives to the region, between 54% and 100% of their DNA looks similar to this profile. For some, however, as little as 36% looks similar. The other regions most commonly found are Asia East and Asia South. More than half of people from the Asia Central region have at least some DNA from these neighboring regions, and about 42% have some DNA from the Caucasus region. (See the green chart above.)",
                "AsiaE": "We have used our reference panel to build a genetic profile for the Asia East region. The blue chart above shows examples of ethnicity estimates for people native to this region. For East Asia we see a rather narrow range—for most natives, between 87% and 100% of their DNA looks similar to our profile. However, it’s also possible to find people with between 13% and 58% of their DNA more similar to other regions. The most common other region is Polynesia; about 25% of people from the Asia East region have at least some DNA from that region. (See green chart above.)",
                "AsiaS": "We have used our reference panel to build a genetic profile for the Asia South region. The blue chart above shows examples of ethnicity estimates for people native to the region. For most natives, between 78% and 99% of their DNA looks similar to our profile. However, it’s also possible to find people with only 58% of their DNA that looks similar to the profile. For people with DNA from other regions, the most common is the neighboring Caucasus region. About 40% of people from Asia South have at least some DNA from the Caucasus region. (See the green chart above.)",
                "Caucasus": "We have used our reference panel to build a genetic profile for the Caucasus region. The blue chart above shows examples of ethnicity estimates for people native to this area. For the Caucasus, we normally see a relatively narrow range: for most natives, between 70% and 96% of their DNA looks similar to the profile. However, others have as little as 46% of their DNA from this region. The other regions most commonly found are the neighboring Middle East and Asia South regions. (See green chart above.)",
                "NearEast": "We have used our reference panel to build a genetic profile for the Middle East region. The blue chart above shows examples of ethnicity estimates for people native to this region. For the Middle East region, we see a very wide range. While 69% of a typical native’s DNA comes from this region, some have as little as 14% or as much as 100% of their DNA that looks similar to the Middle East profile. For people with DNA similar to other regions, the most common is the neighboring Caucasus region, followed by Italy/Greece. (See the green chart above.)",
                "AngloSaxon": "We have used our reference panel to build a genetic profile for Great Britain. The blue chart above shows examples of ethnicity estimates for people native to this region. For Great Britain we see an extremely wide range—most natives have between 41% and 100% of their DNA showing similarity to this region. It’s also possible, however, to find people whose DNA shows very little similarity. Since approximately 60% of the typical native’s DNA comes from this region, 40% is more similar to other regions, such as Ireland, Europe West, Scandinavia and the Iberian Peninsula (see chart above, in green).",
                "Celtic": "We’ve used our reference panel to build a genetic profile for Ireland. The blue chart above shows examples of ethnicity estimates for people native to the Ireland region. Most Irish natives have between 76% and 100% of their DNA showing similarity to this profile. It’s also possible, however, to find people whose DNA shows very little similarity. Since approximately 95% of the typical native’s DNA comes from this region, only 5% is more similar to that of other regions such as Great Britain, Europe West, or Scandinavia (see green chart above).",
                "EuropeE": "We have used our reference panel to build a genetic profile for Europe East. The blue chart above shows examples of ethnicity estimates for people native to this region. Most natives of Europe East have between 64% and 100% of their DNA showing similarity to this profile. It’s also possible, however, to find people whose DNA shows very little similarity. Since approximately 82% of the typical native’s DNA comes from this region, only 18% is more similar to that of other regions, such as Italy/Greece, Europe West, Great Britain and Scandinavia.",
                "EuropeW": "We have used our reference panel to build a genetic profile for Europe West. The blue chart above shows examples of ethnicity estimates for people native to this region. For Europe West we see an extremely wide range—most natives have between 20% and 68% of their DNA showing similarity to this region's profile. Some individuals show 100% similarity, but it’s also possible to find people whose DNA shows little or no similarity. This is most likely due to the fact that this area has not experienced any long-term periods of isolation. Since only 48% of the typical native’s DNA comes from this region, there are major genetic influences from other regions, such as Great Britain, Scandinavia, Italy/Greece, Europe East and more (see chart above, in green).",
                "EuropeS": "We have used our reference panel to build a genetic profile for Italy/Greece. The blue chart above shows examples of ethnicity estimates for people native to this region. Most Italy/Greece natives have between 65% and 100% of their DNA showing similarity to this profile. It’s also possible, however, to find people whose DNA shows very little similarity. Since approximately 72% of the typical native’s DNA comes from this region, 28% of his or her DNA is more similar to other regions, such as the Caucasus, Middle East, Iberian Peninsula, and Europe West.",
                "EuropeJe": "We have used our reference panel to build a European Jewish genetic profile. The blue chart above shows examples of ethnicity estimates for people native to this region. For European Jewish, there is very little (if any) DNA shared with neighboring regions. However, there are some exceptions—a small minority of people’s DNA shows only 65% similarity to this profile. Since approximately 96% of the typical native’s DNA comes from this region, 4% is similar to other regions, such as the Italy/Greece region. (See chart above, in green.)",
                "UralVolga": "We have used our reference panel to build a genetic profile for Finland/Northwest Russia. The blue chart above shows examples of ethnicity estimates for people native to this region. Most natives of Finland/Northwest Russia have very little (if any) DNA shared with neighboring regions. However, there are some exceptions—a small minority of people’s DNA shows only 59% similarity to this profile. In addition, about 27% of individuals from this region have at least some DNA similar to Scandinavia (chart in green).",
                "EuropeIb": "We have used our reference panel to build a genetic profile for the Iberian Peninsula. The blue chart above shows examples of ethnicity estimates for people native to this region. For the Iberian Peninsula, we see a fairly wide range of results. Some natives have only 19% of their DNA showing similarity to this profile, while there is a larger group which shows 100% similarity. Since approximately 51% of the typical native’s DNA comes from this region, 49% is more similar to surrounding areas such as the Italy/Greece region (see chart above, in green).",
                "EuropeN": "We have used our reference panel to build a genetic profile for Scandinavia. The blue chart above shows examples of ethnicity estimates for people native to this region. For Scandinavia we see a fairly narrow range—most natives have between 69% and 100% of their DNA showing similarity to this profile. It’s also possible, however, to find people whose DNA shows little similarity (25%). Since approximately 84% of the typical native’s DNA comes from this region, 16% is more similar to other regions, such as the neighboring Europe West (see chart above, in green).",
                "Melanesia": "We have used our reference panel to build a genetic profile for Melanesia. The blue chart above shows examples of ethnicity estimates for people from this region. For Melanesia, we see a very narrow range—most people have very little (if any) DNA shared with neighboring regions. However, there are some exceptions—a small minority of people have DNA showing only 81% similarity to this profile. In addition, about 43% of individuals from this region have at least some DNA similar to the Polynesia region. (See chart above, in green.)",
                "Polynesia": "We have used our reference panel to build a genetic profile for Polynesia. The blue chart above shows examples of ethnicity estimates for people native to this region. For most natives, we see little—if any—DNA that looks similar to profiles from other regions. However, there are some exceptions: For a small minority, only 79% of their DNA is similar to the profile. It is curious that 11% of people native to this region have at least a small amount of DNA that looks similar to the profile from the Scandinavia region. This could be caused by the relatively small sample size in the reference panel or by recent admixture. (See green chart above.)"
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                    "p2": "The AncestryDNA Reference Panel is a select set drawn from this collection of thousands of DNA samples."
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