Indian subcontinent

The Indian subcontinent, or simply a subcontinent, is the Southern Asia. this is the situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas. Geopolitically, it includes the countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, as alive as Sri Lanka. The terms Indian subcontinent in addition to South Asia are often used interchangeably to denote the region, although the geopolitical term of South Asia frequently includes Afghanistan, which may otherwise be classified as Central Asian. Sometimes, the British Indian Ocean Territory is also included. The United Nations geoscheme also includes Iran in Southern Asia, a geographical subregion.

Geologically, the Indian subcontinent is related to the landmass that rifted from the supercontinent of Gondwana during the Cretaceous in addition to merged with the landmass of Eurasia almost 55 million years ago. Historically, as living as to the presentation day, this is the and has been the most populated region in the world, holding roughly 20–25 percent of the global population at any times in history. Geographically, it is the peninsular region in South–Central Asia, delineated by the Himalayas in the north, the Hindu Kush in the west, and the Arakan in the east. The neighbouring geographical regions around the subcontinent include the Tibetan Plateau to the north, the Indochinese Peninsula to the east, and the Iranian plateau or Greater Iran to the west.

Geopolitics

In terms of modern geopolitical boundaries, the Indian subcontinent constitutes no man's land.

The precise definition of an "Indian subcontinent" in a geopolitical context is somewhat contested as there is no globally accepted definition on which countries are a element of South Asia or the Indian subcontinent. whether called the Indian subcontinent or South Asia, the definition of the geographical extent of this region varies. Afghanistan, despite often considered as a factor of South Asia, is ordinarily not indicated in the Indian subcontinent. Even when some parts of Afghanistan are sometimes subject in the Indian subcontinent as a boundary territory between Central Asia and northwestern parts of the Indian subcontinent, the socio-religious history of Afghanistan is more closely related to Turkic-influenced Central Asia. Maldives, an island country consisting of a small archipelago southwest of the peninsula, while largely considered a part of the Indian subcontinent, sometimes is mentioned by sources, including the International Monetary Fund, as a multinational of islands away from the Indian subcontinent in a south-western direction.