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Pakistani people

Pakistanis
پاكستانى قوم
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Total population
c. 199 million
Regions with significant populations
 Pakistan 199,085,847
 Saudi Arabia 1,500,000+
 United Arab Emirates 1,200,000+
 United Kingdom 1,174,983
 United States 363,699
 Canada 156,865
 Kuwait 150,000
 Italy 100,000+
 Qatar 90,000
 Oman 85,000
 Greece 80,000
 France 60,000
 Malaysia 56,000
 China 54,000
 Germany 49,000
 Spain 47,000
 Bahrain 45,000
 Norway 39,134
 Australia 31,277
 Libya 30,000
 Belgium 14,500+
 Japan 10,000+
 Sweden 5,000+
Languages
Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashto, Balochi, Saraiki, Kashmiri, Brahui, Balti and others
Religion
Islam 97% (majority Sunni, while 20% being Shia) Other Religions: Hinduism, Christianity, Ahmadiyya, Bahai Faith, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism

Pakistanis (Urdu: پاكِستانى قوم‎; Pakistani Qaum) are the people who are citizens of the modern Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Pakistan is a multi-ethnic and multilingual state: the majority of its people belong linguistically to the Indo-Iranian group while the remaining minority mainly belongs to a small amount of other language groups and families. As of 2011, the estimated population of Pakistan was over 199 million making it the world's sixth most-populous country.

Pakistan has one of the world's fastest growing populations. As the country is located in South Asia, Pakistani people are a mixture of various indigenous ethnic groups.

Pakistani people belong predominantly to seven main ethno-linguistic groups: Punjabi, Sindhi, Saraiki, Pashtun, Mohajir, Baloch, and Kashmiri, with substantial numbers of Brahui, Hindkowan, Shin, Burusho, Wakhi, Balti, Chitrali and other minority ethnic groups in the remote north of the country.


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