List of Geographic Names of Iranian Origin - Central Asia

Central Asia

Amudarya
Syrdarya
Khwarezm
Pamir Mountains
Turkistan
Formed with the Persian suffix -istan, literally meaning "land of the Turks" in Persian.

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