Hindustan, along with its shortened form Hind, is the Persian name for North India, broadly the Indian subcontinent, which later became used by its inhabitants in Hindi–Urdu. Other toponyms of the subcontinent include Jambudvipa, Bharata, and India.
After the Partition of India, it continues to be used as a historic name for the Republic of India.
A secondary meaning of Hindustan is as a geographic term for the Indo-Gangetic Plain in northern India.