Afghan Canadians are

Canadians Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''C ...

with ancestry from

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ...

. They form the second largest Afghan community in

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after

Afghan Americans Afghan Americans ( ''Amrikāyi-hāye Afghān tabar'', ''Da Amrīka Afghanan'') are Americans with ancestry from Afghanistan. They form the largest Afghan diaspora, Afghan community in North America with the second being Afghan Canadians. Afghan ...

. Their ethnic origin may come from any of the ethnic groups of Afghanistan, which include Pashtun, Tajik, Uzbek, Hazara, Turkmen, etc. In the

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about 83,995 Canadians were from Afghanistan.

Demography

Population

Religion

Geographical distribution

By Canadian province or territory ( 2016)

Media

The diaspora also have media outlets for the Afghan community, including private TV channels such as Watan E Maa, AfghanJavan TV and Afghan Nobel TV.

Notable individuals

* Kawa Ada – actor and playwright * Fardaws Aimaq – basketball player * Layla Alizada – actress * Alexander Farah – filmmaker * Hangama – singer * Donnie Keshawarz – actor * Sadi Jalali – soccer player * Nasser Jamal – football player * Mozhdah Jamalzadah – singer * Maryam Monsef – member of Parliament for Peterborough-Kawartha; first Afghan-Canadian elected to Canada's House of Commons, former Minister of Status of Women * Farkhunda Muhtaj – soccer player * Ariel Nasr – documentary filmmaker"Halifax-born producer gets Oscar nod for short film"

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Nova Scotia, January 10, 2013. * Nelofer Pazira – filmmaker and author * Parween Pazhwak – Persian artist and poet * Humira Saqib – Journalist * Massih Wassey – soccer player * Hamid Zaher – writer and gay rights activist

Notes

References

External links

Rebuilding Afghanistan
Afghan Pashtun diaspora Afghan diaspora in Canada Canadian people of Afghan descent {{NorthAm-ethno-group-stub