The
Hazarajat (, , also referred to as
Hazaristan) is a regional name for the
territory inhabited by the
Hazara people, which lies in the central highlands of
Afghanistan, among the
Koh-i-Baba mountains and the western extremities of the
Hindu Kush. Its physical boundaries are roughly marked by
Bamiyan to the north, the headwaters of the
Helmand River to the south,
Firuzkuh in Ghor to the west, and the
Unai Pass to the east. "Hazārajāt denotes an ethnic and religious zone rather than a geographical one—that of Afghanistan's
Turko-Mongol Shiʿites."