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Pakistan


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    • a-pk---
  • Variants

    • Dominion of Pakistan
    • Bākistān
    • Islamic Republic of Pakistan
    • Islamskai︠a︡ Respublika Pakistan
    • Islami Jamhuriya e Pakistan
    • Pākistāna
    • پاکِستان
    • Islāmī Jumhūrī-ye Pākistān
    • باكستان
    • Paquistan
    • Пакістан
    • Ісламская Рэспубліка Пакістан
    • Пакистан
    • Ислямска република Пакистан
    • Isli︠a︡mska republika Pakistan
    • Islamische Republik Pakistan
    • Eʼeʼaahjí Naakaii Dootłʼizhí Bikéyah
    • Pakistani Islamivabariik
    • Πακιστάν
    • Ισλαμική Δημοκρατία του Πακιστάν
    • Islamikē Dēmokratia tou Pakistan
    • Jamhuryat Islami Pakistan
    • State of Pakistan
    • Islāmī Jumhūriyah Pākistān
    • パキスタン
    • Pakisutan
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        Nation
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        State
    • Associated Locale

        Asia
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    • Earlier Established Forms

    • Sources

      • found: Belokrenit︠s︡kiĭ, V.I︠A︡. Pakistan, 1981:p. 5 (Islamskai︠a︡ Respublika Pakistan)
      • found: Political hbk. of the world, 1986(under Pakistan: Became independent 8/15/1947; national territory confined to former West Pakistan with de facto independence of Bangladesh (former East Pakistan) on 12/16/1971)
      • found: The statesman's year-book, 1995-1996:p. 1048 (Pakistan; Islami Jamhuriya e Pakistan (Islamic Republic of Pakistan))
      • found: Ān̐khoṃ dekhā Pākistāna, 2005:cover (Pākistāna)
      • found: GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(pcl; 30°00ʹ00ʺN 070°00ʹ00ʺE)
      • found: Wikipedia, Oct. 18, 2010(Pakistan (Urdu: پاکِستان = Pākistān), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan; Islāmī Jumhūrī-ye Pākistān [in rom.]) Arabic page (باكستان = Bākistān) Franco-Provençal/Arpitan page (Paquistan) Belarusian page (Пакістан = Pakistan; Ісламская Рэспубліка Пакістан = Islamskai︠a︡ Rėspublika Pakistan) Bulgarian page (Пакистан = Pakistan; Ислямска република Пакистан = Isli︠a︡mska republika Pakistan) German page (Islamische Republik Pakistan) Navajo page (Eʼeʼaahjí Naakaii Dootłʼizhí Bikéyah) Estonian page (Pakistani Islamivabariik) Greek page (Πακιστάν = Pakistan; Ισλαμική Δημοκρατία του Πακιστάν = Islamikē Dēmokratia tou Pakistan)
      • found: The world factbook, via WWW, July 26, 2018(Pakistan. Location: Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea, between India on the east and Iran and Afghanistan on the west and China in the north. Geographic coordinates: 30 00 N, 70 00 E. Conventional long form: Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Conventional short form: Pakistan. Local long form: Jamhuryat Islami Pakistan [in roman]. Local short form: Pakistan. Former: West Pakistan)
      • found: Wikipedia, July 26, 2018:Pakistan (Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia; Islāmī Jumhūriyah Pākistān [in roman]; 30°N 70°E; created in 1947 as an independent homeland for Indian Muslims; ethnic civil war in 1971 resulted in the secession of East Pakistan as the new country of Bangladesh) West Pakistan (West Pakistan was one of the two exclaves created at the formation of the modern State of Pakistan following the 1947 Partition of India. After gaining independence from the British in 1947, the State of Pakistan was physically separated into two exclaves, with the western and eastern wings separated from each other by the Republic of India; On 1 July 1970, West Pakistan was devolved and renamed "Pakistan"; The next year's civil war resulted in the secession of East Pakistan as the new country of Bangladesh)
      • found: Web NDL authorities, July 26, 2018(パキスタン = Pakisutan) - https://id.ndl.go.jp/auth/ndlna/00569020
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    • Change Notes

      • 1980-09-30: new
      • 2018-07-28: revised
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