{"id":27429,"date":"2021-11-17T08:33:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T07:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27429"},"modified":"2021-11-17T08:33:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T07:33:18","slug":"what-do-you-know-about-the-central-asian-nations-with-names-ending-in-stan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27429","title":{"rendered":"What do you know about the Central Asian nations with names ending in -stan?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The name ending ‘-stan’ means ‘land of’. In Central Asia, there are seven of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have been to one – Uzbekistan [see travel notes here<\/a>] – and plan to make a trip next year to five of them: Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are two others – Afghanistan and Pakistan – but I don’t feel that it would be safe to visit them in current circumstances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If various political movements had their way, there might be even more -stans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For instance, the Khalistan movement is a separatist movement seeking to create a homeland for Sikhs by establishing a sovereign state, called Kh\u0101list\u0101n (Land of the Khalsa’), in the Punjab region. The proposed state would consist of land that currently forms Punjab, India and Punjab, Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The name ending ‘-stan’ means ‘land of’. In Central Asia, there are seven of them. I have been to one – Uzbekistan [see travel notes here] – and plan to make a trip next year to five of them: Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan. There are two others – Afghanistan and Pakistan – but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27429"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27435,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27429\/revisions\/27435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}