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Tot population | |||||||||||||
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ca. 16 tae 22 million (estimates vary) | |||||||||||||
Regions wi signeeficant populations | |||||||||||||
![]() | 8,213,380 (2012)[1] | ||||||||||||
![]() | 6,206,939 (2012)[2] | ||||||||||||
![]() | 1,419,709 (2012, offeecial) ither, non-offeecial, scholarly estimates are 6 - 11 million[3][4][5] | ||||||||||||
![]() | 220,000[6] | ||||||||||||
![]() | 200,666[7] | ||||||||||||
![]() | 52,000[8] | ||||||||||||
![]() | 47,500[9] | ||||||||||||
![]() | 41,028[10] | ||||||||||||
![]() | 15,870[11] | ||||||||||||
![]() | 4,255[12] | ||||||||||||
Leids | |||||||||||||
Persian varieties o Dari an Tajiki | |||||||||||||
Releegion | |||||||||||||
Islam (Sunni, maistly Hanafi; sizable Shia minority) an aa minorities o Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Baha'i an Christianity. | |||||||||||||
Relatit ethnic groups | |||||||||||||
Ither Iranian fowks, Persie fowk |
Tajik (Persie: تاجيک, Tājīk; Tajik: Тоҷик) is a general designation for a wide range o Persie-speakin fowk o Iranian origin,[13] wi tradeetional homelands in present-day Tajikistan, Afghanistan an Uzbekistan.