Afghanistan: Religions
It won’t come as a surprise to anybody to find out that Islam is the dominant religion of Afghanistan. At least 99% of Afghans are Muslim.
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Afghanistan: Languages
Afghanistan has two official languages: Dari and Pashto.
Dari
Dari is a variety of Persian and the native language of the Tajik people in Afghanistan. It is spoken in Northern and Western Afghanistan. The capital city of Kabul as well as the cities of Mazar-e-Sharif and Herat are all Dari-speaking.
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Afghanistan: Ethnic Groups
Many outsiders don’t realize that Afghanistan is actually a very diverse country. There are many different ethnicities.
All of the figures I’m going to cite are just estimates. Nobody’s gone out to do an actual census in the last 20 years. However, I believe these estimates to be fairly reasonable and I think they’ll give you [...]