South Asia key terms list
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| show | Refers to the seasonal reversal of wind and moisture flows in certain parts of the subtropics and lower-middle latitudes.
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| show | The major world language family that dominates the European geographic realm. This language family is also the most widely dispersed globally, and about half of humankind speaks one of its languages.
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| show | The language family, indigenous to the South Asian realm, that dominates southern India today; as opposed to the Indo-European languages, whose tongues dominate northern India.
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| show | Capital city positioned in actually or potentially contested territory, usually near an international border; it confirms the state’s determination to maintain its presence in the area of contention.
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| show | The number of people per unit area.
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| show | The number of people per unit area of arable land.
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| show | Multi-stage model, based on western Europe’s experience, of changes in population growth exhibited by countries undergoing industrialization.
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| show | A demographic indicator showing the ratio of males to females in a given population.
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| show | The strict social stratification and residential segregation of people—specifically in India’s Hindu society—on the basis of ancestry and occupation.
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| show | A country or set of countries separating ideological or political adversaries. In southern Asia, Afghanistan, Nepal, and Bhutan were parts of a buffer zone set up between British and Russian-Chinese imperial spheres.
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| show | The terrorist organization that evolved into an expanding global network under the directorship of Usama bin Laden between the mid-1990s and his elimination by the U.S. in 2011.
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| show | One of the expected major impacts of global climate change on the world ocean resulting from the large-scale melting of Arctic and Antarctic ice. Low-lying coastal settlements and human activities are at greatest risk of inundation.
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| show | The use of remote-controlled unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as delivery systems to conduct military attacks.
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