Pakistanis

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1st row: Muhammad Ali Jinnah · Muhammad Iqbal · Mushaf Ali Mir 2nd row: Zaka Ashraf · Abdul Sattar Edhi · Abdul Qadeer Khan 3rd row: Mahira Khan · Benazir Bhutto · Imran Khan 4th row: Shahid Afridi · Sayeeda Warsi · Zayn Malik 5th row: Rahim Shah · Atif Aslam · Nadia Ali
Total population
187 million approx. 2.7% of the world's population
Regions with significant populations
Pakistan: 187,000,000 (2011)
United Kingdom 1,200,000+  Saudi Arabia 1,200,000+  United Arab Emirates 1,100,000+  United States 700,000+  Canada 300,000+  Kuwait 100,000+  Italy 100,000+  Oman 85,000+  Greece 80,000+  France 60,000+  Germany 53,668+  Qatar 52,000+  Spain 47,000+  Bahrain 45,500+  Norway 39,134+  Denmark 21,152+  Netherlands 19,408+
Languages
Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashto, Balochi, Saraiki, Persian, Kashmiri, Balti and others
Religion
Islam 97% (Sunni majority, 20% Shia) with Christian, Zorastrian Hindu, Sikh and Bahai minorities

Pakistani people or Pakistanis (Urdu: پاکستانی قوم) (Pakistani Qaum) are a nationality and pan-ethnic group who are the native citizens and residents of Pakistan. Pakistan's estimated population in 2011 is over 187 million^[1][2] making it the world's sixth most-populous country. Pakistan is in essence a multi-ethnic and multilingual nation that is home to people of diverse regional ethnicities and nationalities, reflecting the rich and complex demographics and history of Pakistan. As a result, Pakistanis do not consider their nationality as an ethnicity but as a citizenship of a Muslim state with various ethnicities comprising the "Pakistani people".

Ethnic groups[link]

Pakistan has one of the world's fastest growing populations. Being a land mass that is transitionally localed both in South Asian, the Greater Middle East and Central Asia, the Pakistani people are a mixture of various ethnic groups. Furthermore, various ethnic groups, invading armies and the migrations to the region by people passing through on their way to and from South Asia have left their imprint on the population.

In the west, the Pashtun people are an indigenous Eastern Iranic group who have been settled the western banks of the Indus and are believed to have originated from the Sulaiman Mountains of Pakistan. The Baloch people are a western Iranic ethnic group who inhabit the southwest of the country and are believed to be settlers from far off Aleppo (in modern day Syria) who arrived to the region and assimilated into the local peoples and gave their name to the province of Balochistan.^[3] The Punjabi people, the largest ethnic group, reside in the northeast and have been the primary inhabitants of the historical Punjab region which derives its name from the Persian Panj meaning five (5) and Ab meaning water(s); hence the land of five rivers or Panj-Ab. The Sindhi people on the other hand have been settled in the southeast of the country and gave their name to the mighty Indus/Sindhus river, while regional groups such as the Seraiki people have inhabited the regions between Punjab and Sindh.^[3] Groups in the west of the country share cultural ties with neighboring Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia regions. The Kashmiri people are an important ethnic group of the Kashmir region in the north. Their other important indigenous people like the Balti, Hunzakots and Gilgiti people(s) of the northern territories of Gilgit through whose territory ran the ancient Silk Route connecting Asia and Europe. The Chitrali people are another indigenous people who live high up in the mountains in the north west. Along with these main groups, there are smaller communities of Sheedi's who are descendants of African sailors and warriors who are believed to have arrived from the horn of Africa as well as Urdu-speaking Muhajir people who came as refugees from India when Pakistan attained its independence from Britain in 1947. There are countless other ethnic groups that make up part of Pakistani's mosaic such as the Burmese, Hazara, Tajik, Persian, Arabic and Hakka; the hakka are an interesting group that trace their origin to China and were banished to the Panjab region quite some time ago.^[3]

See also[link]

• Qaum
• Qawm

Culture[link]

Languages[link]

Urdu is the national language of Pakistan although there are numerous regional and provincial languages which are spoken as first languages by the ethno-linguistic groups making up the country. English is spoken at an official level and is a legacy of the long British Raj colonial rule in the region.

Religion[link]

National identity[link]

According to Pakistan Studies curriculum, Muhammad bin Qasim is often referred to as the first Pakistani.^[4] Muhammad Ali Jinnah also acclaimed the Pakistan movement to have started when the first Muslim put a foot in the Gateway of Islam.^[5]

Diaspora[link]

There are large populations of Pakistani ancestry around the world, due to emigration. The population of Pakistanis abroad is considered to exceed seven million and can be found in the Middle East, North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Notable people[link]

References[link]

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Turkish people
Türkler

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Total population
70 million[citation needed] (see also Turkish population & Turkish diaspora)
Regions with significant populations
Turkey 55,500,000-59,000,000 [1][2][3][4]  Germany 3,500,000-4,000,000 [5][6][7]  Iraq 500,000-3,000,000 [8][9][10]  Algeria 600,000-2,000,000 [11][12]  Syria 750,000-1,500,000 [13]  Bulgaria 588,000-750,000 [14][15]  France 500,000-1,000,000 [16][17]  United Kingdom 500,000a[›] [18][19][20]  United States 500,000 b[›] [21][22][23]  Netherlands 400,000-500,000 c[›] [24][25][26]  Austria 350,000-500,000 [27][28][29][30]  Northern Cyprus 300,000-500,000 d[›] [31][32]  Belgium 200,000 [33][34]  Macedonia 77,959-200,000 [35].[36][37]  Saudi Arabia 200,000 e[›] [38]  Australia 60,000-150,000 f[›] [39][40]  Greece 80,000-150,000 g[›] [41][42][43]  Kazakhstan 150,000 h[›] [44]  Russia 120,000-150,000 [45]  Switzerland 120,000 e[›] [46]  Azerbaijan 110,000 h[›] [44][47][48]  Sweden 100,000-150,000 i[›] [49][50]  Egypt 70,000-100,000 [51][52]  Denmark 70,000 [53]  Canada 50,000-100,000 [54][55][56]  Lebanon 50,000-80,000 [57][58]  Bosnia and Herzegovina 50,000 [59][59]  Kosovo 30,000-50,000 [59][60]  Kyrgyzstan 50,000 h[›] [44][61]  Romania 28,226-80,000 [62][63][64]  Italy 21,000 [65][66]  Norway 16,000 e[›] [67]
Languages
Turkish
Religion
Predominantly Islam
Related ethnic groups
Turkic peoples  · Anatolian peoples
Footnotes
^ a: According to the Home Affairs Committee this includes 300,000 Turkish Cypriots.[68] However, some estimates suggest that that the Turkish Cypriot community in the UK has reached between 350,000[69] to 400,000.[70][71] ^ b: Government immigration figures on the number of Turks in the US estimates a total of 190,000 persons;[72] however, these statistics are not fully reliable because a considerable number of Turks were born in the Balkans and USSR.[73] ^ c: A further 10,000-30,000 people from Bulgaria live in the Netherlands. The majority are Bulgarian Turks and are the fastest-growing group of immigrants in the Netherlands.[74] ^ d: This includes Turkish settlers. A further 2,000 Turkish Cypriots currently reside in the southern part of the island.[75] ^ e: This figure only includes Turkish citizens. Therefore, this also includes ethnic minorities from Turkey; however, it does not include ethnic Turks who have either been born and/or have become naturalised citizens. Furthermore, these figures do not include ethnic Turkish minorities from Bulgaria, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania or any other traditional area of Turkish settlement because they are registered as citizens from the country they have immigrated from rather than their ethnic Turkish identity. ^ f: A further 40,000-60,000 Turkish Cypriots live in Australia.[76][77][78] ^ g: This figure only includes Turks of Western Thrace. A further 5,000 live in the Rhodes and Kos.[79] In addition to this, 8,297 immigrants live in Greece.[80] ^ h: These figures only includes Meskhetian Turks. ^ i: A further 30,000 Bulgarian Turks live in Sweden.[81]

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" (Turkish: singular: Türk, plural: Türkler), are a nation and ethnic group primarily living in Turkey, and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities have been established in the Balkans, the island of Cyprus, the Levant, Meskhetia, and North Africa. The Turkish minorities are the second largest ethnic groups in Bulgaria and Cyprus. In addition, due to modern migration, a Turkish diaspora has been established, particularly in Western Europe (see Turks in Europe), where large communities have been formed in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. There are also Turkish communities living in Australia, the former Soviet Union and the United States.