1) Fictional Asian country 
Uqbar is a fictional place in Jorge Luis Borges`s 1940 short story `Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius`. Uqbar in the story is doubly fictional: even within the world of the story it turns out to be a fictional place. The story turns on the narrator`s discovery of a fictitious entry about Uqbar: that is, a false article in an otherwise legitimate ref...