Afghania

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a province in northwestern Pakistan uncountable
  2. 2
    North-West Frontier Province (official name of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa until 2010) historical, uncountable

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khyber pakhtunkhwa

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"The name Pakistan was coined as an acronym for Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, and Balochistan."

Etymology

From Afghan (“a person of Pashtun ethnicity”) + -ia (“land”). Coined by Choudhary Rahmat Ali who published it in the pamphlet Now or Never issued on January 28, 1933 as the "a" in Pakistan (then Pakstan). Compare Latin Afgania.

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