-stan

-stan Persian: ـستان; , or istân has a meaning of "a place abounding in" or "a place where anything abounds" as a suffix. It originated in the Persian language, but is widely used by other Iranic languages as well as the Shaz Turkic languages excluding Siberian Turkic as well as other languages historically influenced by Persian. The suffix appears in the label of numerous regions throughout Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, South Asia, & parts of the Caucasus and Russia.

Administrative divisions

The coming after or as a a object that is caused or produced by something else of. table lists the subnational entities of different countries that end with -stan.