 A wooden mask of the Beti people | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| ≈1 million[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Cameroon Equatorial Guinea Gabon | |
| Languages | |
| Beti language (Niger-Congo),[2] French, Spanish, Portuguese | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity, some syncretic with Traditional religion | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Bulu people, Fang people, Yaunde people |
The Beti people are a Central African ethnic group primarily found in central Cameroon.[1] They are also found in Equatorial Guinea and northern Gabon. They are closely related to the Bulu people, the Fang people and the Yaunde people, who are all sometimes grouped as Ekang.
The Beti are found in northern regions of their joint demographic distributions, the Fang in the southern regions, and others in between. Estimates of the total Beti population vary, with many sources placing them at over three million spread from the Atlantic coastal regions near Equatorial Guinea into the hilly, equatorial forest covered highlands of central Africa reaching into the Congo.[1][3]
- ^ a b c Anthony Appiah; Henry Louis Gates (2010). Encyclopedia of Africa. Oxford University Press. pp. 177–178, 460. ISBN 978-0-19-533770-9.
- ^ Ewondo, Ethnologue
- ^ John A. Shoup (2011). Ethnic Groups of Africa and the Middle East: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. pp. 59–62. ISBN 978-1-59884-362-0.