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Started by: Mac (inactive)

Useless trivia number #475

As a generally accepted explanation, the suffix "stan" is an ancient Persian and/or Farsi word meaning country, nation, land, or place of, so, the country name of Afghanistan would then mean "homeland" of the Afghans, or place of the Afghans.

Replied: 14th Dec 2011 at 16:30

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