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Pakistan (multiple meanings)

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Pakistan usually refers to the sovereign country in South Asia formally named the "Islamic Republic of Pakistan".

Pakistan may also refer to:

  • Dominion of Pakistan, the country (later Islamic Republic of Pakistan) formed by the partition of British India in 1947 consisting of the present countries of Pakistan and Bangladesh
  • West Pakistan, the name of the western wing of Pakistan until 1971
  • East Pakistan, a former province of Pakistan which existed between 1947 and 1971 (now Bangladesh)
  • Pakistan, Purnia, a village in Purnia district of Bihar, India
  • Pakestan, a village in the Ardabil Province of Iran
  • Little Pakistan, an ethnic enclave populated by overseas Pakistanis

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