111512 South Asia Lots of people 1 562 Billion People Can Region provide for itself o Widespread poverty o Green Revolution Nuclear armed states that have fought territorial wars Indian sub continent o Himalayas Tibet North o West Deserts East Mtn Forest o Barrier to contact communication Indian Ocean o Arabian Sea Bay of Bengal Monsoon climate River Valleys o Indus o Ganges o Brahmaputra Deccan or Indian Pateau Western Eastern Ghats o Edge of plateau narrow coastal plain Thar Desert Sundarbans o Mouth of the Ganges Civilizations o Older Indus River Rann of Kutch o Ganges River Religious Hearth Dravidian earlier migration inhabitants Indo Aryan migration 5000 BP o Hinduism Colonization Independence Regions Indus Ganges Brahmaputra Lowland o Large populations Peninsular India o Deccan plateau Coastlines Southern Islands Indian Ocean Mountainous North Himilayas States India o Hindu homeland Religious hearth Islamic Neighbors populous o Pakistan Bangladesh Southern Islands Sri Lanka Maldives Mountainous North Nepal Bhutan Cities Bangladesh o Dhaka India o New Delhi Nepal o Kathmandu Pakistan o Islamabad Sri Lanka o Colombo India 1 259 000 000 2nd most Populous state Largest Democracy Growing most pop Complext cultural diversity o 650 languages 18 official Hindi Bengal Dravidian o Numerous Religions Hinduism 81 nationalism Islam 11 larger Muslim states 1947 Partition Led by Ghandi
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