Azad Jammu and Kashmir
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Calque of Urdu آزاد جموں و کشمیر (āzād jammū̃ o kaśmīr, literally “free Jammu and Kashmir”), from آزاد (āzād, “free, independent”) + جموں (jammū̃) + و (o, “and”) + کشمیر (kaśmīr, “Kashmir”), from Persian.
Proper noun
- An autonomous region administered by Pakistan, one of the two entities which form the Pakistani-Administered Kashmir, as well as part of the wider Kashmir, region.
Translations
autonomous region under Pakistani administration
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See also
- (provinces and territories of Pakistan) provinces of Pakistan; Azad Kashmir, Balochistan, Gilgit-Baltistan, Islamabad Capital Territory, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Jammu Kashmir, Sindh (Category: en:Provinces of Pakistan)
- Gilgit-Baltistan (the northernmost and the larger of the two political entities which together constitute the Pakistani-administered part of Jammu and Kashmir)
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