Map Reveals Countries With Disappearing Populations Published Aug 18, 2024 at 5:00 AM EDT Updated Aug 19, 2024 at 6:49 AM EDT By Pandora Dewan ...

More than 1 billion people are going to the polls in South Asia this year. In a test of democratic values and human rights in the region, voters will choose leaders in five countries: Bangladesh ...

Unlike most recent Chinese maps that encircle the South China Sea with a “nine-dash line,” the line on the new map has 10 dashes, although China has used the 10-dash line in the past.

A region in name only.For decades, policymakers and scholars have been trained in the West and elsewhere to think of the countries of the Indian subcontinent as part of a coherent region: South Asia.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, shakes hands with Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe before a meeting in New Delhi in July 2023. (Naveen Sharma/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ...