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What is India?
The most populous country in South Asia.
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What is a sultanate?
Similar to a cracker eaten with soup, an empire ruled by a sultan is called this.
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What is Bollywood?
This is the Indian film industry, based out of Mumbai (formerly Bombay).
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What is monsoon (also acceptable: monsoon system, monsoon season)?
This wind system dictates weather patterns in South Asia.
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What is Thimphu?
This is the capital of Bhutan.
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What is Nepal?
Mount Everest and a portion of the Himalayas are in this country.
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What is malnourished?
If you have a diet lacking in nutrients, you are this.
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What are radio and television?
The easiest way to transmit entertainment, news, and information in an illiterate country is through these two mediums.
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What is the Arabian Sea?
This is the sea located south of Pakistan and west of India.
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What is Bengali?
What is the national language of Bangladesh?
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What is Bangladesh?
All of this country is a flood plain.
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What is a Sari?
Not a board game, but rather a long colorful clothe, worn as a dress, common to South Asia.
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What is reincarnation?
This is the belief that the soul of a person goes through a cycle of birth, death, and rebirth.
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What is the Urdu?
Hindi, Persian (or Farsi), and Arabic formed this language.
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What is Jianism?
What religion is characterized by vegans who see all of nature as being alive and sacred?
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What is Bhutan?
This land locked country is home of Avatar-like animals such as the muntjac and sloth bear and red panda.
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What is urbanization?
The process of moving from rural areas to the city is more concisely known as this.
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What is the Maldives?
Global climate change poses the most serious threat to this South Asian country.
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What is the barking deer?
The muntjac is also known by this name.
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What is East Pakistan?
What is the former name of Bangladesh?
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What is Sri Lanka?
Nearly an 1/8 of the world's tea supply is exported from this South Asian country.
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What is a charpoy?
Sounds like the best permanent marker, but this is actually a bed with a wooden frame crisscrossed by knotted ropes.
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What is the Mughal Empire?
This Islamic Empire included Hindus in its governmental structure.
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What is the Indus?
The Tarbela Darn, which is an enbankment darn, holds back the water of this river.
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What is Afghanistan?
This country has the lowest literacy rate in the world.
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