How many countries have names ending with -STAN?
eight countries *countains* names ending with -stan: Afghanistan – Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Kazakhstan – Republic of Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan – Kyrgyz Republic Pakistan – Islamic Republic of Pakistan Tajikistan – Republic of Tajikistan Tristan da Cunha (Dependency of the UK overseas territory of Saint Helena) Turkmenistan Uzbekistan – Republic of Uzbekistan Of course, those are the English names. Interestingly, Afghanistan “is bordered by Pakistan in the south and east, Iran in the west, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, and China in the far northeast.” Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan So these are already five of them. And Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are also not very far away.
