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Comment Re:It's ELBONIA (Score 3, Informative) 291

by composer314 on Tuesday October 18, 2005 @08:32PM (#13822879) Attached to: Estonian Internet Voting Called a Success

The following are actual countries ending in -stan Former members of the USSR: - Kazakhstan - Uzbekistan - Turkmenistan - Tajikistan - Kyrgyzstan Not members of the USSR: - Afghanistan (but almost!) - Pakistan "-stan" is a suffix in Farsi and Sanskrit meaning "home" or "place of". For a full list of national, regional, and ficticious -stans, see -stan article on wikipedia.

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