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Afghania

Afghania proper noun: khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a province in northwestern Pakistan.

Proper noun

Afghania (uncountable)

  1. (largely obsolete) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a province in northwestern Pakistan
  2. (historical) North-West Frontier Province (official name of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa until 2010)

Origin of Afghania

From Afghan (“a person of Pashtun ethnicity”) + -ia (“land”). Coined by Choudhary Rahmat Ali who published it in the pamphlet Now or Never issued on January 28, 1933 as the "a" in Pakistan (then Pakstan). Compare Latin Afgania.

Questions about Afghania

What does Afghania mean?
Afghania means khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a province in northwestern Pakistan.
What part of speech is Afghania?
Afghania is a proper noun.

Words near Afghania in the dictionary

  1. Afghan Hounds
  2. Afghan Persian
  3. Afghan Sign Language
  4. Afghanese
  5. afghani
  6. Afghania
  7. afghanis
  8. Afghanisation
  9. Afghanise
  10. Afghanised
  11. Afghanises

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Afghania (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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