Ethnic groups in Afghanistan

Afghanistan ethnic map (2005)

Afghanistan is a multi-ethnic country. Ethnic groups in Afghanistan include the Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek, Aimaq, Turkmen, Baloch, Pashayi, Nuristani, Gujjar, Arab, Brahui, Qizilbash, Pamiri, Moghol and a few others.^[1]

Ethnic Groups In Afghanistan Media

Ethnic groups in Afghanistan as of 1997
Collage of images showing the Pashtun people. They make up the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and the second largest in neighboring Pakistan.
Collage of images showing people who are labelled as Tajiks of Afghanistan. They make up the largest ethnic group in Tajikistan and the second largest in both neighboring Afghanistan and Uzbekistan.
A Hazara girl in Afghanistan
Collage of images showing people who are labelled as Uzbeks. They make up the largest ethnic group in Uzbekistan and the fourth largest in Afghanistan.
Turkmen girl and baby in Afghanistan
Nearly 300 young men and women between the ages of 14 and 30 gathered at the provincial governor’s compound in Zaranj to be part of a youth shura, Jan. 18. This shura was a chance to interact with the local men and women and describe to them how the future of Afghanistan rests in their hands. (Photo ID: 359495)
A Pashai boy wearing a pakol
A Nuristani girl in Afghanistan
Group of Tribal Gujar People Gathered in North Eastern Afghanistan