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Afghanistan

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Afghanistan"

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Word	Definition
pakistannoun	A country in South Asia. Official name: Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Capital: Islamabad.
kabulnoun	The capital and largest city of Afghanistan.
kandaharnoun	A city, the capital of the province of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan.
afghannoun	A native or inhabitant of Afghanistan; a person of Afghan citizenship, nationality, or ancestry.
talibannoun	A Deobandi Islamist and largely Pashtun religious political movement founded in Afghanistan in 1994 by mullah Mohammad Omar, which has governed the country from 1996 to 2001 and since 2021.
afghaninoun	The monetary currency of Afghanistan, divided into 100 pul.
countrynoun	The territory of a nation; a sovereign state or a region once independent and still distinct in institutions, language, etc.
isafnoun	(initialism) International Shark Attack File (global database of shark attacks)
afganistannoun	Alternative spelling of Afghanistan [A landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia. Official name: Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Capital and largest city: Kabul.]
afghans	the citizens and nationals of Afghanistan, as well as their descendants in the Afghan diaspora.
countriesnoun	The territory of a nation; a sovereign state or a region once independent and still distinct in institutions, language, etc.
karzainoun	—
khorasannoun	A former province of Iran which subsequently divided into the South Khorasan, North Khorasan, and Razavi Khorasan provinces.
islamic emirate of afghanistannoun	Official name of Afghanistan: a country in Central Asia, under Taliban rule in 1996–2001 and since 2021.
islamic republic of afghanistannoun	The former official name of Afghanistan, from 2001 through 2021.
republic of afghanistan	the first republic in Afghanistan.
democratic republic of afghanistannoun	(history) Former official name of Afghanistan: a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia; used from 1978 to 1987 when it was a one party Marxist-Leninist state; officially known as the Republic of Afghanistan from 1987 to 1992, but under the same government.
ariananoun	A female given name from Ancient Greek.
bactrianoun	The ancient name of the country between the range of the Hindu Kush and the Amu Darya in West Asia, encompassing parts of northern Afghanistan, eastern Turkmenistan, southern Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and northern Pakistan.
gandharanoun	(historical) An ancient kingdom that occupied parts of present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan.