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Feb 17, 2023 · The term "stan" is derived from the Persian suffix "-stan", which means "land of". It is used to refer to a group of Central and South Asian countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan. These countries are all culturally and historically linked, sharing commonalities in language, religion ...
- Cory Price
Aug 24, 2010 · The suffix –stan is Persian and Urdu for “place of,” or “where one stands.”. It is found in the names of seven countries: Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
Some countries in southern and central Asia and some of Russia’s republics have names that end in the suffix -stan. If you aren’t from Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, or elsewhere in the region, you may be wondering where this suffix comes from and what it means.
- John P. Rafferty
Countries whose name in their native language has the suffix -stan. stan ( Persian: ستان stân, [n 1] estân or istân [n 2]) has the meaning of "a place abounding in" [1] or "a place where anything abounds" as a suffix. [2] It is widely used by Iranian languages as well as the Shaz Turkic languages (excluding Siberian Turkic) and other ...
May 22, 2018 · To many who live in countries outside the immediate vicinity of Central Asia, they are a motley gaggle of countries that end in “stan” and not much else. Despite the sparse attention they receive on the world stage, “The Stans” are a remarkable set of countries that, while sharing a common history, have taken distinct paths that set ...
Feb 23, 2022 · Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan have kept with -stan suffix due to their association with Russian, the main language of the Soviet Union. Over the past 20 years, various countries have changed their official names to better reflect their linguistic heritage. Might some of the -stans do the same?
Aug 20, 2020 · The Seven Stans. 5 of the seven Stans, or seven Stan Countries are located in Central Asia. Two of them are in South Asia. Central Asia (2019) has a population of about 72 million in total. It stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west, east all the way to China and Mongolia. From North to South, it stretches from Afghanistan and Iran to Russia ...
