Afghan Canadians

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Afghan Canadians are Canadians with ancestry from Afghanistan. They form the second largest Afghan community in North America after Afghan Americans. Their ethnic origin may come from any of the ethnic groups of Afghanistan, which include Pashtun, Tajik, Uzbek, Hazara, Turkmen, etc. In the Canada 2016 Census about 83,995 Canadians were from Afghanistan.^[4]

Province	Population	Percentage	Source
Ontario	54,535	0.4%	[6]
Quebec	10,940	0.1%	[7]
Alberta	8,545	0.2%	[8]
British Columbia	7,890	0.2%	[9]
Manitoba	1,015	0.1%	[10]
Saskatchewan	780	0.1%	[11]
Nova Scotia	230	0.0%	[12]
New Brunswick	25	0.0%	[13]
Newfoundland and Labrador	10	0.0%	[14]
Prince Edward Island	10	0.0%	[15]
Northwest Territories	10	0.0%	[16]
Nunavut	0	0.0%	[17]
Yukon	0	0.0%	[18]
Canada	83,995	0.24%	[5]

The diaspora also have media outlets for the Afghan community, including private TV channels such as Watan E Maa,^[19] AfghanJavan TV and Afghan Nobel TV.

• Kawa Ada — actor and playwright
• Fardaws Aimaq — basketball player
• Layla Alizada — actress
• Hangama — singer
• Donnie Keshawarz – actor
• Sadi Jalali — soccer player
• Nasser Jamal — football player
• Mozhdah Jamalzadah – singer^[20]
• Maryam Monsef – member of Parliament for Peterborough-Kawartha; first Afghan-Canadian elected to Canada's House of Commons, former Minister of Status of Women
• Ariel Nasr - documentary filmmaker^[21]
• Nelofer Pazira – filmmaker and author
• Parween Pazhwak – Persian artist and poet
• Humira Saqib – Journalist^{[citation needed]}
• Massih Wassey – soccer player
• Hamid Zaher – writer and gay rights activist^[22]

• Afghan diaspora
• West Asian Canadians
• Pashtun diaspora
• Hazara diaspora
• List of Afghans

• Rebuilding Afghanistan

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