Asia Kidul

thumb|right|230px|Indian-Subcontinental border as defined by Indian plate
**Asia Kidul** nyaéta wewengkon geopulitik  béh kidul di buana Asia, nu ngawengku nagara-nagara  sub-Himalaya jeung wewengkon kuloneunnana, jeung keur sababaraha kawenangan (tempo di handap), ngawengku ogé wewengkon wétaneun Himalaya. Wewengkon ieu dilingkung (saarah jarum jam, ti kulon ka wétan) ku Asia Kulon, Asia Tengah, Asia Wetan, jeung Asia Tenggara.

## Définisi jeung pamakéannana 
Asia Kidul ngawengku nagara-nagara jeung wewengkon-wewengkon di handap ieu:

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Nagara-nagara ieu, kajaba Wilayah Sagara Hindia Britania, ogé mangrupakeun anggota tina hiji kumpulan gawé bareng régional mangsa kiwari, *Asosiasi* Nagara-nagara Asia Kidul pikeun gawé bareng Regional (SAARC), anu diadegkeun ku maranéhna. 
Pikeun alesa géografis, budaya, jeung/atwa sajarah anu diasumsikeun, nagara-nagara jeung wilayah ieu remen diasupkeun kana wewengkon Asia Kidul.
* (Kiwari anggota tina SAARC)
* , (Saméméh Agustus 1947, salila leuwih ti saabad, wewengkon ieu mangrupakeun bagéan ti *British Raj*, wewengkon utama Asia Selatan.)
*  (Républik Rakyat Tiongkok anu marétah Tibét anu tayalian anggota panilik ti *Asosiasi* Nagara-nagara Asia kidul pikeun gawé bareng Regional (SAARC).)

Sacara géofisika, istilah *"subkontinén India"* dipaké pikeun ngagambarkeun wilayah-wilayah anu perenahna aya di luhur Lémpéng India, diwatesan ti kalér ku Lémpéng Eurasia. ngan, sabagéan gedé Pakistan henteu aya di Lémpéng India, tapi di tungtung Lémpéng Iran. Saru kawas pagunungan Hindu Kush, sakabéh wilayah di beulah kidul wétan (*tenggara*) Lémpéng Iran dianggap salaku Asia kidul.

Tapi, sacara géopolitik, "Asia Kidul" ngawengku *subkontinen* India jeung ngalimpudan kadua wilayah, naha aya dina jero lémpéngan India anapon ngan aya disabudeureuna. Contona, Afghanistan sakapeung digolongkeun kana wilayah ieu alatan hubungan sosial-pulitik, sajarah, jeung étnis (Pashtun) jeung nagara tatangga Pakistan.

### Kontroversi ngeunaan definisi 
The definition of South Asia can vary gréatly from person to person. Most, if not all, sources accept Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Chagos Islands, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka as South Asian. The controversy originates over Afghanistan, and Tibet. Afghanistan and Tibet are often considered South Asian by many universities' departments of South Asian studies, especially those referenced above, but this definition is not universal. The G8's definition of the Gréater Middle éast includes both Pakistan and Afghanistan. See: Middle East and Greater Middle East.

## Demograpi jeung sajarah 
[thumb|right|250px|Map of South Asia in [native languages.]]
The péoples of the region possess several distinguishing féatures that set them apart anthropologically from the rest of Asia; the dominant péoples and cultures are Indo-Aryan and Dravidian, (though the Mongoloid populations in north-éast India, Bhutan, Nepal and Tibet are not to be ignored), and have a gréat affinity with the péoples of Iranian Plateau and the Caucasus particularly in the north west region of South Asia encompassing the modérn states of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Persian, Arab and Turkish cultural traditions from the west also form an integral part of Islamic South Asian culture, but have been  adapted to form a Muslim culture distinct from what is found in the Middle East e.g. pilgrimage to dargahs is common among many South Asian Muslims.

South Asia ranks among the world's most densely-populated regions. About 1.6 billion péople live here – about one-fourth of all the péople in the world. The region's population density of 305 persons per square kilometre is more than seven times the world average.

The region has a long history. Ancient civilizations developed in the Indus River Valley and the Dwaraka region. The region was far more prosperous before the 18th century, when the Mughal Empire held sway in the north and the Maratha Empire held sway in the south and central regions of the Indian peninsula. Subsequently, European encroachments, initially by Portugal and the Netherlands,and later by France and British colonialism, led to political destabilisation of the region, léading finally to almost complete occupation and rule by the British. Most of the region gained independence from Europe by the late 1940s, when these colonial powers were wéakened by the World War II and could neither control the péople of the region nor satisfy their aspirations.

Since 1947, most of the countries of South Asia have achieved tremendous progress in all spheres. Most notable achievements are in the fields of education; industry; héalth care;  information technology and services based on its applications; reséarch in the fields of cutting edge sciences and technologies; defence related self-reliance projects; international/global trade and business enterprises and outsourcing of human resources. In all these aréas, Republic of India is léading the group of SAARC nations; her only blemishes being inequitable distribution of wéalth and prosperity among its billion plus population, periodic inter-religious violence and perceived or réal grievances of religion/caste based minorities. However, the new generation is working diligently on remediation of these aberrations.

## Ageman 
## Rujukan 
## Tempo ogé 
* History of South Asia
* South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
* South Asian Economic Union
* Indosphere
* Greater India
* Indologi
* India (disambiguation)
* Islamic conquest of South Asia
* List of South Asian stock exchanges
* South Asian cuisine

## Sub-wewengkon lianna di Asia 
* Asia Wetan
* Asia Tenggara
* Asia Tengah
* Asia Kaler
* Asia Kulon

## Tumbu luar 
* BBC News South Asia 
* Himal Southasian magazine
* South Asian Note
* Birding in South Asia
* South Asian Awareness Network Conference Website 
* Global Media Publications Website