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Afghanistan, n.

a mountainous landlocked country in central Asia; bordered by Iran to the west and Russia to the north and Pakistan to the east and south
<noun.location>

Afghanistan Islamic State of Afghanistan

sample sentences

"Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in 1979"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

Afghan

semantic pointers

member of this domain (region)

al-Qaeda, Qaeda, al-Qa'ida, al-Qaida, Base, al Qaeda, al Qaida Loya Jirga

instance hypernym

Asian country, Asian nation

part holonym

Asia

part meronym

Herat Jalalabad Kabul, capital of Afghanistan Kandahar, Qandahar Mazar-i-Sharif Hindu Kush, Hindu Kush Mountains Khyber Pass Pamir Mountains, the Pamirs

member meronym

Afghan, Afghanistani