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Khorasan commonly refers to: . Greater Khorasan, a historical region of Central Asia, now in modern-day northeastern Iran, southern Turkmenistan and northern Afghanistan, sometimes used in a looser sense to include parts of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
Greater Khorasan [2] (Middle Persian: 𐬒𐬊𐬭𐬀𐬯𐬀𐬥, romanized: Xwarāsān; Persian: خراسان, [xoɾɒːˈsɒːn] ⓘ) is a historical eastern region in the Iranian Plateau in West and Central Asia that encompasses western and northern Afghanistan, northeastern Iran, the eastern halves of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, western Tajikistan, and portions of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.