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Present demography
Bantu people are divided into hundreds of individual groups predominating demographically, culturally, linguistically and politically in a contiguous zone throughout most of Sub-Equatorial Africa, specifically all the nineteen nations of Central, Southeast and Southern Africa. also sometimes referred to as Bantu Africa.

In Kenya and Uganda there are also significant remaining ancestral Nilo-Saharan communities, as these countries were the final points of the Bantu migration, and this cultural diversity has often led to ethnic conflict over the years for political and cultural dominance.

The Islands of Africa also include some Bantu communities, including in the Indian Ocean states of Madagascar, Comoros, Seychelles and Mauritius off the southeastern coast of Africa as well as São Tomé and Príncipe off the southwestern seaboard. There are also a few remaining Bantu communities in southern Cameroon, the major original dispersal point of the Bantu migration, comprising approximately 27 percent of the population of the country. The most notable of these communities include the Beti-Pahuin, Bulu (a subgroup of Beti-Pahuin), Fang (a subgroup of Beti-Pahuin), Maka and Njem.

Territories and regions
All of the nineteen Bantu majority countries are also (often overlapping) members of various regional organizations in Sub-Equatorial Africa. Among these are the Southern African Development Community (SADC) for the countries in Southern Africa, the East African Community (EAC) for the countries in the Great Lakes Region, and the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) for the countries in Central Africa. These regional organizations variously promote regional co-operation and economic, political and social integration amongst their members.