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This page lists people from Kabul, either native to the city or resident of it. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. ...
Kabul's population was estimated in 2023 at about 4.95 million. [149] The city's population has long fluctuated due to the wars. The lack of an up-to-date census means that there are various estimates of the population. Kabul's population was estimated to have been about 10,000 in 1700, 65,000 by 1878, and 120,000 by 1940. [63]
Ethnic groups in Afghanistan as of 1997. Afghanistan is a multiethnic and mostly tribal society. The population of the country consists of numerous ethnolinguistic groups: mainly the Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, and Uzbek, as well as the minorities of Aimaq, Turkmen, Baloch, Pashai, Nuristani, Gujjar, Brahui, Qizilbash, Pamiri, Kyrgyz, Moghol, and others.
The current tribe of Tarakhel in Kabul is further divided into many sub-tribes, one of the major tribe which is a direct descendent of 'Pacha Baba' and are known as PachaaKhel (Pashto: پاچاخیل). With time, other sub-tribes form different regions settled in today's tarakhel in Deh Sabz District district of Kabul.
They seem to live mostly in cities and are typically lawyers, doctors, engineers, and teachers. They are thought to number around 30,000 and are primarily found in Herat, Kabul, and Kandahar. They are Persian-speakers [21] and no longer speak their native Turkic language. [22]
Pashto is the native tongue of the Pashtuns, the dominant ethnic group in Afghanistan. [14] Due to Afghanistan's multi-ethnic character , multilingualism is a common phenomenon. The exact figures about the size and composition of the various ethnolinguistic groups are unavailable since no systematic census has been held in Afghanistan in ...
Parachi is spoken by some 600 individuals of the Parachi ethnic group in eastern Afghanistan, mainly in the upper part of Nijrab District, northeast of Kabul, out of a total ethnic Parachi population of some 5,000. It is closely related to the Ormuri language of Kaniguram in South Waziristan, Pakistan.
The name Shiraz also appears on clay sealings found at a 2nd-century AD Sassanid ruin, east of the city. By some of the native writers, the name Shiraz was derived from a son of Tahmuras, the third Shāh (King) of the world according to Ferdowsi's Shāhnāma. Mashhad (مشهد) (1750–1736): literally the place of martyrdom in Persian.