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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.
Population, fertility rate and net reproduction rate, United Nations estimates. The population of Afghanistan is around 49.5 million as of 2025. [7] The nation is composed of a multi-ethnic and multilingual society, reflecting its location astride historic trade and invasion routes between Central Asia, South Asia, and Western Asia.
Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Afghanistan" The following 59 pages are in this category, out of 59 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The less common Afghanistani (افغانستانی) is an alternative identity marker for citizens of Afghanistan. The term "Afghanistani" refers to someone who is a citizen of Afghanistan, [72] regardless of race, ethnicity or religion. [73] [74] In multiethnic Afghanistan, the term "Afghan" has always been associated with the Pashtun people ...
While some countries make classifications based on broad ancestry groups or characteristics such as skin color (e.g., the white ethnic category in the United States and some other countries), other countries use various ethnic, cultural, linguistic, or religious factors for classification. Ethnic groups may be subdivided into subgroups, which ...
Aug. 27—A Norwin High School graduate who served three tours of duty in Afghanistan attempting to help rebuild the country and its military is on a new mission: to get two Afghan interpreters ...
The Irano-Afghan race or Iranid race is an obsolete racial classification of human beings based on a now-disproven theory of biological race. [1] [2] [3] Some anthropologists of the 20th century classified the populations native to the Iranian plateau as belonging to this race, [4] [5] [6] which was usually seen as a subrace of the Caucasian race or the Mediterranean racial subtype of that ...
About 500 Americans were flown out of Afghanistan in the past 24 hours, raising to about 4,500 the number of citizens who've been rescued. As many as 1,500 Americans remain in Afghanistan as U.S ...