South Asia
This includes the countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and the Maldives.
The region is bounded to the north by a series of mountain ranges: the Hindu Kush to the northwest, the Karakoram Range in the central north, and the Himalayas to the northeast. South of the mountains is the Indo-Gangetic Plain, formed from the combined alluvial plains of the Indus, Ganges (Ganga), and Brahmaputra rivers, which lie in a deep marginal depression running north of and parallel to the main range of the Himalayas.
South Asia is home to one of the world’s earliest known civilizations, the Indus civilization, and today it is one of the most densely populated regions on the planet. Despite a history of ethnic, linguistic, and political fragmentation, the people of the subregion are unified by a common cultural and ethical outlook; a wealth of ancient textual literature in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and regional languages is a major unifying factor. Music and dance, ritual customs, modes of worship, and literary ideals are similar throughout South Asia, even though the region has been divided into kaleidoscopic political patterns through the centuries (Ryabchikov et.al.:2020).
South Asia is home to one of the world’s earliest known civilizations, the Indus civilization, and today it is one of the most densely populated regions on the planet. Despite a history of ethnic, linguistic, and political fragmentation, the people of the subregion are unified by a common cultural and ethical outlook; a wealth of ancient textual literature in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and regional languages is a major unifying factor. Music and dance, ritual customs, modes of worship, and literary ideals are similar throughout South Asia, even though the region has been divided into kaleidoscopic political patterns through the centuries (Ryabchikov et.al.:2020).
South Asia, a sub-region of Asia, consisting of the Indo-Gangetic Plain and peninsular India.
South Asia comprises eight countries and the population is 1,829,076,000. The number of People Groups are 4,042 and 91% are unreached. This consists of 3,661 Unreached People Groups (data source: Joshua Project: 2021). This is a staggering number, and the task is immense. The three largest non-Christian religions in the world are rooted in Asia. There are 1.1. billion Muslims, 950 million Hindus and 470 – 920 million Buddhists (Operation World Admin:2021).
South Asia has more unevangelized individuals and people groups than any other region of the world, and yet in some segments of its societies the Church is growing vigorously. Its ethnic, linguistic, religious and social complexity defies easy description.
South Asia has more unevangelized individuals and people groups than any other region of the world, and yet in some segments of its societies the Church is growing vigorously. Its ethnic, linguistic, religious and social complexity defies easy description.
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South Asia
This includes the countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and the Maldives.
The region is bounded to the north by a series of mountain ranges: the Hindu Kush to the northwest, the Karakoram Range in the central north, and the Himalayas to the northeast. South of the mountains is the Indo-Gangetic Plain, formed from the combined alluvial plains of the Indus, Ganges (Ganga), and Brahmaputra rivers, which lie in a deep marginal depression running north of and parallel to the main range of the Himalayas.
South Asia is home to one of the world’s earliest known civilizations, the Indus civilization, and today it is one of the most densely populated regions on the planet. Despite a history of ethnic, linguistic, and political fragmentation, the people of the subregion are unified by a common cultural and ethical outlook; a wealth of ancient textual literature in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and regional languages is a major unifying factor. Music and dance, ritual customs, modes of worship, and literary ideals are similar throughout South Asia, even though the region has been divided into kaleidoscopic political patterns through the centuries (Ryabchikov et.al.:2020).
South Asia is home to one of the world’s earliest known civilizations, the Indus civilization, and today it is one of the most densely populated regions on the planet. Despite a history of ethnic, linguistic, and political fragmentation, the people of the subregion are unified by a common cultural and ethical outlook; a wealth of ancient textual literature in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and regional languages is a major unifying factor. Music and dance, ritual customs, modes of worship, and literary ideals are similar throughout South Asia, even though the region has been divided into kaleidoscopic political patterns through the centuries (Ryabchikov et.al.:2020).
South Asia, a sub-region of Asia, consisting of the Indo-Gangetic Plain and peninsular India.
South Asia comprises eight countries and the population is 1,829,076,000. The number of People Groups are 4,042 and 91% are unreached. This consists of 3,661 Unreached People Groups (data source: Joshua Project: 2021). This is a staggering number, and the task is immense. The three largest non-Christian religions in the world are rooted in Asia. There are 1.1. billion Muslims, 950 million Hindus and 470 – 920 million Buddhists (Operation World Admin:2021).
South Asia has more unevangelized individuals and people groups than any other region of the world, and yet in some segments of its societies the Church is growing vigorously. Its ethnic, linguistic, religious and social complexity defies easy description.
South Asia has more unevangelized individuals and people groups than any other region of the world, and yet in some segments of its societies the Church is growing vigorously. Its ethnic, linguistic, religious and social complexity defies easy description.