Just type every "stan" you can think of, including provinces and territories
only first level subdivisions are being counted
On e of these is a "sthan" but still counts
Tabaristan isn't a province of Iran as far as I can tell, it's just a region and Kohistan is a district of KPK province in Pakistan, I guess I should specify that only first-level subdivisions count
Uyghuristan and Kurdistan are not first-level subdivisions so much as proposed states, so I'm not sure if that's quite the specification you want to go with.
Tabaristan *used* to be a real administrative region, and it is probably impossible to name all historic -stans, so maybe there's something there that would be more apt.
Also you probably should put a note about one of the -stans being a -sthan, for the sake of clarity.
Tabaristan *used* to be a real administrative region, and it is probably impossible to name all historic -stans, so maybe there's something there that would be more apt.
Also you probably should put a note about one of the -stans being a -sthan, for the sake of clarity.