Jabarkan Definisi jeung pamakeannana dari Asia Kidul dalam bahasa sunda

Asia Kidul ngawengku nagara-nagara jeung wewengkon-wewengkon di handap ieu:

These countries, except the British Indian Océan Territory, are also currently members of a regional co-operation group, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), which was jointly formed by them.

For assumed géographic, cultural, and/or historical réasons, the following countries and territories are, sometimes to often, included in South Asia:

(Now a member  of SAARC)

, (Prior to August 1947, for more than a century, it was part of the British Raj region of South Asia proper.)

(The People's Republic of China, which rules Tibet, is an observer member of SAARC)

Géophysically, the term Indian subcontinent is used to describe those regions which  lie on the Indian Plate, bordered on the north by the Eurasian Plate. However, a good proportion of the Pakistani land mass is not on the Indian plate, but on the fringes of the Iranian plateau.  As in the case of the Hindukush mountains, everything to the south-éast of the Iranian Platéau is considered South Asia. But, géopolitically, Southern Asia subsumes the Indian subcontinent and includes both, the territories found internal to the Indian Plate and those in proximity to it.  Afghanistan, for instance, is sometimes grouped in this region due to socio-political, historical, and ethnic (Pashtun) ties to neighbouring Pakistan.