Indian Sub-continent

The sub-continent Indien is a Geographical area of the South Asia, still called Hindoustan or cisgangetic India formerly, where are the following countries:

• the Bangladesh (*)
• the Bhutan (*)
• the Burma (more often attached to the Southeast Asia)
• the India (*)
• the Maldives (*)
• the Nepal (*)
• the Pakistan (*)
• the Sri Lanka (*)

or of the parts of their territory like some disputed Territories currently under control of the China.

Historically, the Afghanistan was influenced by the Indian world, and it is sometimes attached to this one.

The notion of Sous-continent is based on the fact that this area rests on a clean tectonic plate, separated of the remainder of the Asia. The southern part of this area forms enormous a Péninsule, while the northern part is separated from the Central Asia by the Himalayan chain which represents a cultural and geographical barrier with the remainder of Asia.

Some of these countries, located not an asterisk, are members of the ASACR or South-Asian Association for the Regional Co-operation .

See too

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