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-stan
Persian-language suffix used for place names / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Stan (disambiguation).
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 common Turkish languages (excluding Siberian Turkic) and other languages. The suffix appears in the names of many regions throughout West, Central and South Asia, and parts of the Caucasus and Russia.[3]
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Countries whose name in English has the suffix -stan
Other countries that have first-level divisions whose names in English have the suffix -stan.
Countries whose name in their native language has the suffix -stan.