Pakistan is a country in South Asia, located to the west of India, with a population of over 200 million people and Islamabad as its capital.
The name *Pakistan* was coined in 1933 by Choudhry Rahmat Ali from letters of several regions—Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, and Baluchistan—and the Persian suffix *-stan* meaning “land of.” It can also be interpreted as “land of the pure,” from Persian *pāk* “pure.”
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