Tajiks

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.

Tajiks
Fawzia Koofi
Emomalii Rahmon
Burhanuddin Rabbani
Haron Amin
Atta Muhammad Nur
Mohammed Fahim
Ismail Khan
Yunus Qanuni
Bismillah Khan Mohammadi
Amrullah Saleh
Hammasa Kohistani
Ahmad Zia Massoud
Tot population
ca. 16 tae 22 million (estimates vary)
Regions wi signeeficant populations
 Afghanistan8,213,380 (2012)[1]
 Tajikistan6,206,939 (2012)[2]
 Uzbekistan
    
1,419,709 (2012, offeecial)
ither, non-offeecial, scholarly estimates are 6 - 11 million[3][4][5]
 Pakistan220,000[6]
 Roushie200,666[7]
 United States52,000[8]
 Kyrgyzstan47,500[9]
 Cheenae41,028[10]
 Canadae15,870[11]
 Ukraine4,255[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

References