The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation is an intergovernmental organization comprising eight sovereign states with full membership: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepa
Secretariat of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation in Kathmandu, Nepal
Recipients of SAARC Literary Award 2013
Tarique Rahman at meeting on Farmer cards, Cabinet Division, Secretariat, Dhaka, 2026 02 23
Tshering Tobgay
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South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia that is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms. South Asia, with a population of 2.04 billion, contains a quarter of the world's population
The region as described in a 1992 work about the geography of Asia: "This greater India is well defined in terms of topography; it is the Indian peninsula, hemmed in by the Himalayas on the north, the Hindu Khush in the west and the Arakanese in the east."
Timur defeats the Sultan of Delhi, Nasir-u Din Mehmud, in the winter of 1397–1398
Emperor Shah Jahan and his son Prince Aurangzeb in Mughal court, 1650
British Indian Empire in 1909. British India is shaded pink, the princely states are shaded yellow.