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Hazara people

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Hazara
هزاره‎
Hazara boys in Afghanistan.
Total population
8–13 million
Regions with significant populations
 Afghanistan7,000,000[1]
 Pakistan2,000,000 including 500,000 in Quetta[2][3]
 Iran500,000[4]
 Europe130,000[5]
 Turkey26,000[6]
 Australia41,766[7]
 Canada10,300[8]
 Indonesia3,800[9]
Languages
Dari and Hazaragi
(eastern varieties of Persian)
Religion
Mostly Islam
Shia majority
Sunni minority

Hazāra (Persian: هزاره) are a Turko-Mongol people group who mainly live in central Afghanistan and in southwestern Pakistan.[10] They are mostly Muslims with a Shia majority and a Sunni minority. Hazaras are the third largest ethnic group in Afghanistan,[11][12][13] forming about 18%–30% of the total population.[14][8] Hazaras are also one of the biggest ethnic groups in Pakistan, native to the region of Northern Balochistan. Some Hazaras also live in Iran. Hazaras speak Hazaragi, a dialect of Persian with many Turkic and Mongolic loanwords.

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  1. ↑ "Afghanistan |Data". data.worldbank.org.
  2. ↑ "Hazaras of Pakistan". Retrieved 22 Dec 2022.
  3. ↑ Census of Afghans in Pakistan 2005, UNHCR Statistical Summary Report (retrieved August 14, 2016)
  4. ↑ Smyth, Phillip (3 June 2014). "Iran's Afghan Shiite Fighters in Syria". The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "Austria holds refugee talks as young Hazaras flee persecution to make 'dangerous' journey to Europe – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". mobile.abc.net.au. 2016-02-29. Retrieved 2017-08-19.
  6. ↑ "Afghan Hazara Refugees Seek Justice in Turkey". 3 June 2014.
  7. ↑ "Cultural Diversity". Australian Bureau of Statistics. 2021-08-10. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 The population of people with descent from Afghanistan in Canada is 48,090. Hazara make up an estimated 30% of the population of Afghanistan depending t on the source. The Hazara population in Canada is estimated from these two figures. Ethnic origins, 2006 counts, for Canada Archived 2013-07-23 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ↑ Afghan Hazaras' new life in Indonesia: Asylum-seeker community in West Java is large enough to easily man an eight-team Afghan football league, Al Jazeera, 21 March 2014, retrieved 5 August 2016
  10. ↑ Rakha, Allah; Fatima; Peng, Min-Sheng; Adan, Atif; Bi, Rui; Yasmin, Memona; Yao, Yong-Gang (2017-09-01). "mtDNA sequence diversity of Hazara ethnic group from Pakistan". Forensic Science International: Genetics. 30: e1–e5. doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2017.07.004. ISSN 1872-4973.
  11. ↑ L. Dupree, "Afghānistān: (iv.) ethnocgraphy", in Encyclopædia Iranica, Online Edition 2006, (LINK Archived 2006-10-19 at the Wayback Machine).
  12. ↑ CIA World Factbook Archived 2017-09-20 at the Wayback Machine.
  13. ↑ "A survey of the Afghan people - Afghanistan in 2006", The Asia Foundation, technical assistance by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS; India) and Afghan Center for Socio-economic and Opinion Research (ACSOR), Kabul, 2006, PDF Archived 2006-12-15 at the Wayback Machine.
  14. ↑ Kamal Hyder reports (12 Nov 2011). "Hazara community finds safe haven in Peshawar". Aljazeer English. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
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