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Name of Afghanistan
The name
Afghanistan
(, ) means
"land of the Afghans"
, which originates from the
ethnonym
"
Afghan
"
. Historically, the name
"Afghan"
mainly designated the
Pashtun people
, the largest
ethnic group of Afghanistan
. The earliest reference to the name is found in the 10th-century
geography
book known as
Hudud ul-'alam
. The last part of the name,
-stan
is a
Persian
suffix
for "place".
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