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The suffix -stan or -sthan means "home of", and appears in the names of many countries and regions, especially in Asia. For example, "Turkmenistan" would mean "the home of the Turkmen."

The Online Etymology Dictionary derives -stan via a Persian suffix from an Indo-Iranian root expressing "place" or "where one stands".

1 Countries that end in -stan

• Afghanistan
• Kazakhstan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Pakistan
• Tajikistan
• Turkmenistan
• Uzbekistan

2 Other regions

• Arabistan or Arabstan ( Iranian region)
• Balochistan
• Bantustan
• Bashkortostan ( RussiaThe Russian Federation ( Russian: , transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija , or Russia (Russian: , transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija , is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. Withn region)
• DagestanThe Republic of Dagestan ( Russian: ́ ́) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). The direct transliteration of the republic's name is Respublika Dagestan''. It is the largest republic of Russia in the northern Caucasus, bo (Russian region)
• Gulistan ("Rose garden" in Persian). A palace in TehranCapitals in Asia Tehran (also spelled Teheran ( or in Persian), population 11,050,000 ( metropolitan: 15,000,000), is the capital of Iran. More than half of the country's industry is based there. Industries include manufacturing cars, electronic and elect and a poem by SaadiSaadi ( in Persian) (Real name: Mushrif-ud-Din Abdullah ( 1184 1283/ 1291?) was an Iranian poet, a native of Shiraz. He wrote "The Orchard" Bustan in 1257 ,"The Rose Garden" Golistan in 1258 and a collection of lyrics Divan . There is some discrepancy abo
• Hayastan (The ArmenianArmenian is an Indo-European language spoken in the Caucasus mountains (particularly in the Armenian Republic) and also used by the Armenian Diaspora. It is its own independent branch of the family of the Indo-European languages, with no living close rela name for ArmeniaArmenia ( Armenian: ''Hayastan is a landlocked country in southern Transcaucasia, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, Azerbaijan in the east and Iran and the Naxcivan exclave of Azerbaijan in th)
• HindustanHindustan may relate to any of these another name by which the country India is called A term for the pre-Islamic political culture of India. HMS Hindustan one of the eight ships of the King Edward VII class battleships "Hindustan" ( 1918), a popular publ
• Kafiristan
• Khalistan (proposed Sikh homeland / proposed state)
• Khuzestan (a region of southwestern Iran)
• Kurdistan ( Kurdish region)
• Lazistan (another name for Colchis, a region in the Caucasus)
• Lorestan or Luristan (a region of western Iran)
• Nuristan
• Pashtunistan
• Rajasthan (Indian state)
• Registan (Historic site in Samarkand)
• Tatarstan (Russian region)
• Turkestan
• Uyghuristan
• Waziristan
• Yunanistan (The Turkish name for Greece)