Information:  - Afghanistan (Pashto/Dari: , "Afnistn"), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located within South Asia and Central Asia. It has a population of approximately 32 million, making it the 42nd most populous country in the world. It is bordered by Pakistan in the south and east; Iran in the west; Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan in the north; and China in the far northeast. Its territory covers , making it the 41st largest country in the world.  - Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia. It is a unitary, constitutional, presidential republic, comprising twelve provinces, one autonomous republic and a capital city. Uzbekistan is bordered by five landlocked countries: Kazakhstan to the north; Tajikistan to the southeast; Kyrgyzstan to the northeast; Afghanistan to the south; and Turkmenistan to the southwest.  - Central Asia or Middle Asia is the core region of the Asian continent and stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China in the east and from Afghanistan in the south to Russia in the north. It is also colloquially referred to as "the 'stans" (as the six countries generally considered to be within the region all have names ending with the Persian suffix "-stan", meaning "land of") and is within the scope of the wider Eurasian continent.  - Cucumis is a genus of twining, tendril-bearing plants in the Cucurbitaceae family which includes the cucumber ("Cucumis sativus"), muskmelons ("Cucumis melo", including cantaloupe and honeydew), the horned melon ("Cucumis metuliferus"), and the West Indian gherkin ("Cucumis anguria"). Thirty species occur in Africa, and 25 occur in India, Southeast Asia, and Australia.  - Kazakhstan ( "Qazaqstan",  "Kazakhstan"), officially the Republic of Kazakhstan ("Qazaqstan Respwblïkas" "Respublika Kazakhstan"), is a transcontinental country in northern Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Kazakhstan is the world's largest landlocked country, and the ninth largest in the world, with an area of . Kazakhstan is the dominant nation of Central Asia economically, generating 60% of the region's GDP, primarily through its oil/gas industry. It also has vast mineral resources.  - Cucumber ("Cucumis sativus") is a widely cultivated plant in the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae. It is a creeping vine that bears cucumiform fruits that are used as vegetables. There are three main varieties of cucumber: "slicing", "pickling", and "seedless". Within these varieties, several cultivars have been created. In North America, the term "wild cucumber" refers to plants in the genera "Echinocystis" and "Marah", but these are not closely related. The cucumber is originally from South Asia, but now grows on most continents. Many different types of cucumber are traded on the global market.  - Iran (, also , ; ' ), also known as Persia, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (' ), is a sovereign state in Western Asia. It is bordered to the northwest by Armenia, the "de facto" Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, and Azerbaijan; to the north by the Caspian Sea; to the northeast by Turkmenistan; to the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan; to the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman; and to the west by Turkey and Iraq. Comprising a land area of , it is the second-largest country in the Middle East and the 18th-largest in the world. With 82.8 million inhabitants, Iran is the world's 17th-most-populous country. It is the only country with both a Caspian Sea and an Indian Ocean coastline. The country's central location in Eurasia and Western Asia, and its proximity to the Strait of Hormuz, make it of great geostrategic importance. Tehran is the country's capital and largest city, as well as its leading economic center.  - Muskmelon (Cucumis melo) is a species of melon that has been developed into many cultivated varieties. These include smooth-skinned varieties such as honeydew, Crenshaw, and casaba, and different netted cultivars (cantaloupe, Persian melon, and Santa Claus or Christmas melon). The Armenian cucumber is also a variety of muskmelon, but its shape, taste, and culinary uses more closely resemble those of a cucumber. The large number of cultivars in this species approaches that found in wild cabbage, though morphological variation is not as extensive. It is a fruit of a type called pepo.  - Cantaloupe (also cantelope, cantaloup, muskmelon (India and the United States), mushmelon, rockmelon, sweet melon, Persian melon, or spanspek (South Africa)) refers to a variety of the "Cucumis melo" species in the Cucurbitaceae family.  - The Kazakhs (also spelled Kazaks, Qazaqs , , ; the English name is transliterated from Russian) are a Turkic people who mainly inhabit the southern part of Eastern Europe Ural mountains and northern parts of Central Asia (largely Kazakhstan, but also found in parts of Uzbekistan, China, Russia and Mongolia), the region also known as Eurasian sub-continent. Kazakh identity is of medieval origin and was strongly shaped by the foundation of the Kazakh Khanate between 1456 and 1465, when several tribes under the rule of the sultans Zhanibek and Kerey departed from the Khanate of Abu'l-Khayr Khan.  - Persian melons are cultivars of "Cucumis melo", a type of melon, also called Odessa melons. They are elongate, unridged, with dark green skin with irregular yellowish bands, and flesh of a deep orange colour.  - The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed inland body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. It is in an endorheic basin (it has no outflows) located between Europe and Asia. It is bound by Kazakhstan to the northeast, Russia to the northwest, Azerbaijan to the west, Iran to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southeast.  - A melon is any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae with sweet edible, fleshy fruit. The word "melon" can refer to either the plant or specifically to the fruit. Botanically, a melon is a kind of berry, specifically a "pepo". The word "melon" derives from Latin melopepo, which is the latinization of the Greek  ("mlopepon"), meaning "melon", itself a compound of  ("mlon"), "apple" and  ("pepn"), amongst others "a kind of gourd or melon". Many different cultivars have been produced, particularly of muskmelons.  - Melon Day is an annual national holiday in Turkmenistan devoted to festivities to celebrate the country 's muskmelon , in particular a recent crossbreed product named `` Turkmenbashi melon '' ( after Turkmenistan 's first president ) , which is praised for its aroma , taste and large size . It takes place on the second Sunday in August . This holiday was established by Turkmenistan 's then - president Saparmurat Niyazov in 1994 , who preferred to be known as Turkmenbashi , or leader of the Turkmens . The day 's celebrations feature a large display of the fruit in all its varieties , as well as a series of dance and music events , in the country 's capital Ashgabat . In his address to farmers in 2004 , President Niyazov said : `` Almighty God has turned Turkmen soil into a fertile source of an abundance of the tastiest fruits . Among them are Turkmen melons , which are the result of farmers ' hard work and which have a unique taste reminiscent of the fruit of paradise . '' In newspapers Niyazov has been quoted as saying , `` The Turkmen melon is the source of our pride . Its taste has no equals in the world , the smell makes your head spin . '' Melon Day is among 24 public holidays of Turkmenistan -- typical titles of which are Drop of Water is a Grain of Gold Festival , Festival of the Poetry of Magtymguli , Good Neighborliness Day , Racing Horse Day , and Carpet Day .  - The Armenian cucumber, Cucumis melo" var. "flexuosus, is a type of long, slender fruit which tastes like a cucumber and looks somewhat like a cucumber inside. It is actually a variety of muskmelon ("C. melo"), a species closely related to the cucumber ("C. sativus"). It is also known as the yard-long cucumber, snake cucumber, snake melon, and "uri" in Japan. It should not be confused with the snake gourds ("Trichosanthes" spp.). The skin is very thin, light green, and bumpless. It has no bitterness and the fruit is almost always used without peeling. It is also sometimes called a "gutah".  - Turkmenistan (or  ); formerly known as Turkmenia is a country in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north and east, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest, and the Caspian Sea to the west.    After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'melon day' exhibits the relationship of 'named after'. Find the answer from the choices below.  Choices: - 8  - afghanistan  - africa  - asia  - cabbage  - capital  - central  - christmas  - city  - cucumis melo  - east  - europe  - family  - green  - india  - kazakhs  - nation  - north  - odessa  - oil  - russia  - russian  - sea  - snake  - south  - ural  - var  - water
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