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What four letter suffix meaning land of is at the end of seven country names?
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The suffix "-stan" means "land of" or "place of" (e.g. Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan). These countries are all near ancient Persia (Iran) from which the suffix derives, to define regions occupied by certain ethnic peoples. Afghanistan means "place of the Afghanis."
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