Pakistan
pah-ki-STAHN/ˌpɑːkɪˈstɑːn/
- 1A country in South Asia. Its capital city is Islamabad.
My friend's family moved here from Pakistan ten years ago.
Pakistan shares a long border with India.
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Origin
It comes from Urdu پاکستان (pākistān), meaning "Land of the Holy," from پاک (pāk, "pure, holy") and the Persian ending -stān. It was coined in 1933 by the Pakistani politician Chuhdary Rahmat Ali.