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{{Infobox ethnic group
| group            = Hazara<br />{{nq|هزاره}}
| image            = Hazara boys - Afghanistan.jpg
| caption          = Hazara boys in [[Afghanistan]].
| population       = 8–13 million
| region1          = {{nowrap|{{flag|Afghanistan}}}}
| pop1             = 7,000,000
| ref1             = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://data.worldbank.org/country/afghanistan|title=Afghanistan &#124;Data|website=data.worldbank.org}}</ref>
| region2          = {{flag|Pakistan}}
| pop2             = 2,000,000 including 500,000 in [[Quetta District|Quetta]]
| ref2             = <ref>{{cite web|title=Hazaras of Pakistan|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/pakistan-hazaras-sectarian-crossfire/24908361.html|access-date=22 Dec 2022}}</ref><ref name="UNHCR">[http://www.unhcr.org/431c7b1a2.pdf Census of Afghans in Pakistan 2005], ''[[United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees|UNHCR]] Statistical Summary Report'' (retrieved August 14, 2016)</ref>
| region3          = {{flag|Iran}}
| pop3             = 500,000
| ref3             = <ref name="W.I.Smyth">{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/irans-afghan-shiite-fighters-in-syria|title=Iran's Afghan Shiite Fighters in Syria|first=Phillip|last=Smyth|date=3 June 2014|publisher=The Washington Institute for Near East Policy|access-date=22 June 2017}}</ref>
| region4          = {{flag|Europe}}
| pop4             = 130,000
| ref4             = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-29/young-hazara-refugees-make-dangerous-journey-to-europe/7206420|title=Austria holds refugee talks as young Hazaras flee persecution to make 'dangerous' journey to Europe&nbsp;– ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)|date=2016-02-29|website=mobile.abc.net.au|access-date=2017-08-19}}</ref>
| region5          = {{flag|Turkey}}
| pop5             = 26,000
| ref5             = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hazara.net/2014/06/afghan-hazara-refugees-seek-justice-in-turkey/|title=Afghan Hazara Refugees Seek Justice in Turkey|date=3 June 2014}}</ref>
| region6          = {{flag|Australia}}
| pop6             = 41,766
| ref6             = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/people-and-communities/cultural-diversity-census/2021|title=Cultural Diversity|date=2021-08-10|website=Australian Bureau of Statistics|access-date=2022-06-28}}</ref>
| region7          = {{flag|Canada}}
| pop7             = 10,300
| ref7             = <ref name=":0">The population of people with descent from Afghanistan in Canada is 48,090. Hazara make up an estimated 30% of the population of Afghanistan depending t
on the source. The Hazara population in Canada is estimated from these two figures. [http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/highlights/ethnic/pages/Page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo=PR&Code=01&Data=Count&Table=2&StartRec=1&Sort=3&Display=All&CSDFilter=5000 Ethnic origins, 2006 counts, for Canada] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130723224016/http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/highlights/ethnic/pages/Page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo=PR&Code=01&Data=Count&Table=2&StartRec=1&Sort=3&Display=All&CSDFilter=5000 |date=2013-07-23 }}</ref>
| region8          = {{flag|Indonesia}}
| pop8             = 3,800
| ref8             = <ref>{{citation |title=Afghan Hazaras' new life in Indonesia: Asylum-seeker community in West Java is large enough to easily man an eight-team Afghan football league |date=21 March 2014 |publisher=Al Jazeera |access-date=5 August 2016 |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/03/afghan-hazaras-new-life-indonesia-201436121639956520.html}}</ref>
| languages        = [[Dari]] and [[Hazaragi]]<br />(eastern varieties of [[Persian language|Persian]])
| religions        = Mostly [[Islam]]<br />[[Shia Islam|Shia]] majority<br />[[Sunni Islam|Sunni]] minority
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| footnotes        = 
}}
'''Hazāra''' ({{lang-fa|هزاره}}) are a [[Turko-Mongol]] people group who mainly live in central [[Afghanistan]] and in southwestern [[Pakistan]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Rakha|first=Allah|last2=Fatima|last3=Peng|first3=Min-Sheng|last4=Adan|first4=Atif|last5=Bi|first5=Rui|last6=Yasmin|first6=Memona|last7=Yao|first7=Yong-Gang|date=2017-09-01|title=mtDNA sequence diversity of Hazara ethnic group from Pakistan|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1872497317301461|journal=Forensic Science International: Genetics|volume=30|pages=e1–e5|doi=10.1016/j.fsigen.2017.07.004|issn=1872-4973}}</ref> They are mostly [[Muslim]]s with a [[Shia Islam|Shia]] majority and a [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]] minority. Hazaras are the third largest ethnic group in Afghanistan,<ref name="Iranica2">L. Dupree, ''"Af<u>gh</u>ānistān: (iv.) ethnocgraphy"'', in Encyclopædia Iranica, Online Edition 2006, ([http://www.iranica.com/newsite/articles/v1f5/v1f5a040a.html LINK] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061019010821/http://www.iranica.com/newsite/articles/v1f5/v1f5a040a.html |date=2006-10-19 }}).</ref><ref name="CIA">[https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/af.html CIA World Factbook] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920072213/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/af.html |date=2017-09-20 }}.</ref><ref name="survey">''"A survey of the Afghan people - Afghanistan in 2006"'', The Asia Foundation, technical assistance by the ''Centre for the Study of Developing Societies'' (CSDS; India) and ''Afghan Center for Socio-economic and Opinion Research'' (ACSOR), Kabul, 2006, [http://www.asiafoundation.org/pdf/AG-survey06.pdf PDF] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061215190913/http://www.asiafoundation.org/pdf/AG-survey06.pdf |date=2006-12-15 }}.</ref> forming about 18%–30% of the total population.<ref name="Al-jazeera">{{cite web|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/video/asia/2011/11/2011111284512336838.html|title=Hazara community finds safe haven in Peshawar|author=Kamal Hyder reports|date=12 Nov 2011|publisher=Aljazeer English|accessdate=November 13, 2011}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> Hazaras are also one of the biggest ethnic groups in [[Pakistan]], native to the region of Northern [[Balochistan (Pakistan)|Balochistan]]. Some Hazaras also live in [[Iran]]. Hazaras speak [[Hazaragi]], a dialect of [[Persian language|Persian]] with many [[Turkic languages|Turkic]] and [[Mongolic languages|Mongolic]] loanwords.  

== Related pages ==

* [[Ethnic groups in Afghanistan]]

* [[Ethnic groups in Pakistan]]

* [[Aimaq Hazara]]
* [[Aimaq people]]

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