"Island South Asia" redirects here. For the broader region including Coastal South Asia, see Littoral South Asia.
Not to be confused with Insular India.
A depiction of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, the two small island nations in the narrow definition of Insular South Asia.[1]
Insular South Asia is an ill-defined region, consisting at a minimum of all islands in the Southern region of Asia, principally Sri Lanka, the Maldives and the Laccadives.[1][2][3] Other sources also apply the term to the Malay Archipelago in Southeast Asia encompassing Brunei, Indonesia, East Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and East Timor.[4][5]
It was an important region during the initial European colonisation of South Asia and Southeast Asia.[6][3]
^ abDam Roy, S.; Krishnan, P.; Patro, Shesdev; George, Grinson; Velmurugan, A.; Kiruba Sankar, R.; Ramachandran, Purvaja (2017), Prusty, B. Anjan Kumar; Chandra, Rachna; Azeez, P. A. (eds.), "Wetlands of Small Island Nations in South Asia vis-à-vis the Mainland and Island Groups in India: Status and Conservation Strategies", Wetland Science : Perspectives From South Asia, New Delhi: Springer India, pp. 31–48, doi:10.1007/978-81-322-3715-0_2, ISBN 978-81-322-3715-0, retrieved 2024-01-09
^Scarre, Christopher (2009). The human past: World prehistory and the development of human societies. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 548. ISBN 9780500287804. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
^ abLach, Donald Frederick; Kley, Edwin J. Van (1965). Asia in the Making of Europe. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-46756-6.
^"1. PROTECTED AREAS IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION: AN OVERVIEW". FAO. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
^Goldammer, Johann G. (1 July 2006). "History of equatorial vegetation fires and fire research in Southeast Asia before the 1997–98 episode: A reconstruction of creeping environmental changes". Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 12: 13–32. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
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