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QUICK FACTS:
People groups: 8
Population: 7,552,900
Unreached people groups: 8
UPG population: 7,552,900
Unengaged UPGs: 7
UUPG population: 6,267,900
Number of countries: 7
Affinity Bloc: Arab World
Overview: The Bedouin are part of a predominantly desert-dwelling Arabian ethnic group traditionally divided into tribes or clans. The term 'Bedouin' derives from the Arabic 'badawi' which means semiarid desert. The four Bedouin people groups that comprise the Arabian Bedouin people cluster are primarily found in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Islam is the religion of each of these Arabian Bedouin people groups.
Peoples within this cluster: Arab, Bedouin; Bedouin, Gulf; Bedouin, Levantine
Countries where they are found: Egypt; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Kuwait; Saudi Arabia; Syria
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