Pakistan

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Type Country
Usage Urdu, Punjabi, English, Italian, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Polish, Slovak, Russian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian
Scripts پاکستان(Urdu, Shahmukhi) Пакистан(Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian)
Pronounced Pron. /ˈpæk.ɪ.stæn/(English) /ˌpɑːk.ɪ.ˈstɑːn/(English) /pa.ˈki.stan/(Polish) /pə.kʲɪ.ˈstan/(Russian)

Meaning & History

From Persian پاک (pāk) meaning "pure" and the suffix ستان (stān) meaning "land of". The name was coined in 1933 by the Pakistani nationalist Choudhry Rahmat Ali who justified it as an acronym of Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir and Sindh, plus the final three letters of Baluchistan.