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In 2001 the single largest Afghan community in the UK was West Southall, where 1,121 Afghan-born people and many more of Afghan descent live. The locations with the fewest Afghan-born residents are Northern Ireland and Wales , which as subdivisions are estimated to have no greater than 100 Afghan residents each.
Map of the Afghan diaspora in the world (includes Afghans of any ethnicity, ancestry or citizenship). ... The Netherlands received 36,500 refugees and asylum seekers ...
Empty map: File:World map (Miller cylindrical projection, blank).svg; Sources about ancestry available on the page: Afghan diaspora on the English Wikipedia; Number of Afghans living abroad per country: NW, 1615 L. St. Global Migration Map: Origins and Destinations, 1990-2017 (in en-US). Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project.
According to the UN, Afghans are among the top asylum seekers in the world, and in the UK they are the second largest group arriving in the country in small boats, another journey fraught with peril.
Exclusive: Nearly 3,000 Afghans, many of whom worked for the British army, have been stranded in Islamabad for months after the UK stopped chartering flights last year
Afghans (Dari: افغانها; Pashto: افغانان) are the citizens and nationals of Afghanistan, as well as their descendants in the Afghan diaspora. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] [ 43 ] The country is made up of various ethnic groups, of which Pashtuns , Tajiks , Hazaras , and Uzbeks are the largest.
Out of 4,540 people detected arriving by small boats in the first three months of 2022, 24% were Afghan nationals according to the Home Office. Afghans ‘largest group’ fleeing to the UK by ...
The word Afghan also appeared in the 982 Ḥudūd al-ʿĀlam, where a reference is made to a village, Saul, which was probably located near Gardez, Afghanistan. [124] "Saul, a pleasant village on a mountain. In it live Afghans". [124] The same book also speaks of a king in Ninhar , who had Muslim, Afghan and Hindu wives. [125]