تركستان مصطلح [[لغة فارسيةاوزبكية|فارسياوزبك]] تاريخي يتكون من مقطعين: ‘ترك’ و’[[إستان|ستان]]’ ويعني أرض التركالحي <ref>Central Asian review by Central Asian Research Centre (London, England), St. Antony's College (University of Oxford). Soviet Affairs Study Group, Volume 16, page 3. Excerpt: The name Turkestan is of Persian origin and was apparently first used by Persian geographers to describe "the country of the Turks". It was revived by the Russians as a convenient name for the governorate-general created in 1867 and the terms Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and etc. were not used until after 1924</ref>.
