Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index This a page about the word "stan". For information on the song "Stan" see Stan (song) The word stan is a suffix meaning "Home of" that is used in the names of many countries. For example, "Turkmenistan" would be "the home of the Turks." Countries that end in "stan" Afghanistan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Pakistan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan Other "stans" Balochistan Bantustan Bashkortostan (Russian region) Dagestan (Russian region) Kafiristan Khalistan (proposed Sikh homeland) Kurdistan (proposed Kurdish homeland) Nuristan Pashtunistan Tatarstan (Russian region) Turkestan The suffix is often mocked for its over-use, and has led to many parodies, such as the film Lost in Absurdistan or Pat Buchanan's nickname for Canada; Soviet Canuckistan. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.