Editing Tajiks (section)

=== Uzbekistan ===
{{Main|Tajiks of Uzbekistan}}
{{See also|Demographics of Uzbekistan}}In [[Uzbekistan]], the Tajiks are the largest part of the population of the ancient cities of [[Bukhara]] and [[Samarkand]], and are found in large numbers in the [[Surxondaryo Region]] in the south and along Uzbekistan's eastern border with Tajikistan. According to official statistics (2000), Surxondaryo Region accounts for 20.4% of all Tajiks in Uzbekistan, with another 34.3% in [[Samarqand Region|Samarqand]] and [[Bukhara Region|Bukhara]] regions.<ref>[http://ula.uzsci.net/publishing/ru/etnic.htm ''Ethnic Atlas of Uzbekistan''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006133509/http://ula.uzsci.net/publishing/ru/etnic.htm |date=6 October 2008 }}, Part 1: Ethnic minorities, Open Society Institute, table with number of Tajiks by province {{in lang|ru}}.</ref>

Official statistics in Uzbekistan state that the Tajik community accounts for 5% of the nation's population.<ref name="CIA-uz">{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/uzbekistan/|title=Uzbekistan|access-date=26 May 2010|date=6 May 2010|work=[[The World Factbook]]|publisher=[[Central Intelligence Agency]]|archive-date=3 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210203042919/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/uzbekistan/|url-status=live}}</ref> However, these numbers do not include ethnic Tajiks who, for a variety of reasons, choose to identify themselves as Uzbeks in population census forms.<ref name="USStateDept">{{cite web|url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/1999/369.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210212014439/https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/1999/369.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 February 2021|title=Uzbekistan|access-date=19 December 2007|author=Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor|date=23 February 2000|work=Country Reports on Human Rights Practices&nbsp;– 1999|publisher=U.S. Department of State}}</ref> During the Soviet "[[Uzbekization]]" supervised by [[Sharof Rashidov]], the head of the Uzbek Communist Party, Tajiks had to choose either stay in Uzbekistan and get registered as Uzbek in their passports or leave the republic for Tajikistan, which is mountainous and less agricultural.<ref>Rahim Masov, ''The History of the Clumsy Delimitation'', Irfon Publ. House, Dushanbe, 1991 {{in lang|ru}}. English translation: [https://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/Masov/frame.html ''The History of a National Catastrophe''], transl. [[Iraj Bashiri]], 1996.</ref> It is only in the last population census (1989) that the nationality could be reported not according to the passport, but freely declared based on the respondent's ethnic self-identification.<ref>[http://ula.uzsci.net/publishing/ru/etnic.htm ''Ethnic Atlas of Uzbekistan''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006133509/http://ula.uzsci.net/publishing/ru/etnic.htm |date=6 October 2008 }}, Part 1: Ethnic minorities, Open Society Institute, p. 195 {{in lang|ru}}.</ref> This had the effect of increasing the Tajik population in Uzbekistan from 3.9% in 1979 to 4.7% in 1989. Some scholars estimate that Tajiks may make up 35% of Uzbekistan's population, and believe that just like Afghanistan, there are more Tajiks in Uzbekistan than in Tajikistan.<ref name="Cornell">[http://www.cornellcaspian.com/pub/0010uzbekistan.htm Svante E. Cornell, "Uzbekistan: A Regional Player in Eurasian Geopolitics?"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090505153156/http://www.cornellcaspian.com/pub/0010uzbekistan.htm |date=5 May 2009 }}, ''European Security'', vol. 20, no. 2, Summer 2000.</ref>[[File:Registan square 2014.JPG|thumb|View of the Registan in [[Samarkand]]&nbsp;– although the second largest city of [[Uzbekistan]], it is predominantly a Tajik populated city, along with [[Bukhara]].|250x250px]]