SOUTH ASIA
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India
Pakistan
Bangladesh
Nepal
Bhutan
Sri Lanka
Physical
Regions
• Outer Mountain
Wall
• River Plains
FORMATION OF MOUNTAIN WALL
• Piece of earth’s crust moved north
– Collided with Asia
– Process continues
YOUNG JAGGED MTNS
Himalayas
• Ind, Nep & Bhu
• Mt. Everest
• Highest…
Karakoram
Mountains
• Pakistan
• K2
– 2nd highest…
Karakoram Mtns
Karakoram Mtns.
Mountain Tourism
• Nepal
– Trekking…
BEAUTIFUL SCENERY
NEPAL
FASCINATING CULTURE
Impacts of Tourism
• Deforestation…
Impacts of Tourism
• Cultural …
7-ELEVEN & McDONALD’S
IN A HIMALAYA VILLAGE
OK, IT’S REALLY YacDONALD’S!
BHUTAN
• Severely limits tourism
• Seeks to avoid….
• Traditional
River Lowlands
• Ganges
– India (& Bang.)
• Indus (Pak.)
Climate
• Monsoons =
“Seasonal Winds”
• Summer Monsoon
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Heavy Rain
Rice Farming
SW Coast, Ind.
Bangladesh &
Surroundings
• Cherrapunjee, Ind.
Cherrapunjee
India
• Record Rain
– 1041” in 1 yr!
Winter Monsoon
• Winds Reverse
• Dry Weather
– Except…
• E Sri Lanka
Lush in Winter
Deserts
• Pakistan
• W. India
– Rajasthan
CLIMATE
Rajasthani
Woman
Population
 India
#2 in world
• Pakistan: #6
• Bangladesh: #7
COLONIAL HISTORY
• British India = Pak  Burma
• 1947 – Independence
• Region partitioned by religion
SOUTH ASIA
• India
– Hindu
• Pakistan (W & E)
– Muslim
– 1971 - E. Pakistan separated
– Renamed Bangladesh
• Sri Lanka (“Ceylon”)
– Buddhist
Hindu Countries
• India
• Nepal
HINDUISM (PG. 286 5th ed; 294 6th ed.)
• Polytheistic
• Cows….
SACRED COW IN BUSY BOMBAY
Sacred Cows & Monkeys
HOLY
RATS
HINDU
TEMPLE
Hinduism
• Ganges River…
Varanasi
• Holiest…
Varanasi
BUDDHIST COUNTRIES
• Sri Lanka
• Bhutan
MUSLIM COUNTRIES
• Pakistan
• Bangladesh
MOGUL EMPIRE
• 1500s-1800s
– Ruled much of S. Asia
– Architecture
• Taj Mahal, Agra
TAJ MAHAL
TAJ MAHAL
SIKHISM
• Religion of Punjab, Ind.
• Sikh men have same name
– Singh
• Hair = Energy…
SIKH MEN
AMRITSAR
• Holiest City for Sikhs
SIKHS
• Want independence
– Punjab state  “Khalistan”
• Unlikely
– India’s richest state
– Xlnt agri.
• Wheat
India’s Languages
• Hindi
• English
Pakistan’s Languages
• Urdu
• English
Cities of India
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Mumbai (Bombay)
Kolkata (Calcutta)
New Delhi
All est. by the British
MUMBAI
• Largest city…
MUMBAI
• “Wall Street of India”
Bombay = “Bollywood”
Calcutta
• Ganges Delta
Calcutta
• Poverty
MOTHER TERESA
• Missionary to Calcutta’s poor
CALCUTTA
• Former Capital, British India
New Delhi
• India’s Capital since 1911
PAKISTAN
• Karachi
– Largest city
– Indus delta
KARACHI
• Main Seaport
Islamabad
• Pak. Capital
• Built 1970s…