Mazar-i-Sharif is a multiethnic and multilingual society of around 375,000 people. There is no official government report on the exact ethnic make-up but a map appeared in the November 2003 issue of the National Geographic magazine showing Tajiks at 45 %, Pashtun 40 %, Uzbeks at 17%, Hazaras at 8 %, and Turkmen at 8%. Occasional ethnic violence has been reported in the region in the last decades, mainly between Pashtuns and the other groups. Recent news reports have mentioned assassinations taking place in the area but with no evidence as to who is behind them.