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Revision as of 20:01, 23 March 2001 by Larry Sanger (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)South Asia is a geo-cultural region comprising the modern states of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives. It is sometimes called a, or the, subcontinent.
It contains well over a fifth of the world's population and, after Sub-Saharan Africa, is also one of the world's poorest regions.