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The traditions of different ethnic groups in South Asia have diverged, influenced by external cultures, especially in the northwestern parts of South Asia and also in the border regions and busy ports, where there are greater levels of contact with external cultures. There is also a lot of genetic diversity within the region.
Ethnic classifications vary from country to country and are therefore not comparable across countries. While some countries make classifications based on broad ancestry groups or characteristics such as skin color (e.g., the white ethnic category in the United States and some other countries), other countries use various ethnic, cultural ...
In terms of Asian people, there is an abundance of ethnic groups in Asia, with adaptations to the climate zones of the continent, which include arctic, subarctic, temperate, subtropical or tropical, as well as extensive desert regions in Central and Western Asia. The ethnic groups have adapted to mountains, deserts, grasslands, and forests ...
The lists are commonly used in economics literature to compare the levels of ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious fractionalization in different countries. [1] [2] Fractionalization is the probability that two individuals drawn randomly from the country's groups are not from the same group (ethnic, religious, or whatever the criterion is).
South Asia has a total area of 5.2 million sq.km (2 million sq.mi), which is 10% of the Asian continent. [30] The population of South Asia is estimated to be 2.04 billion [8] or about one-fourth of the world's population, making it both the most populous and the most densely populated geographical region in the world. [31]
Ethnic groups by continent and country (4 C) ... Ethnic groups in Asia (44 C, ... Ethnic groups in South America (32 C, 13 P)
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Ethnic groups in Asia. It includes articles and categories that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ethnic groups in South Asia .
Jews and Judaism in Asia by country (48 C) A. Ethnic groups in Abkhazia ... Ethnic groups in the United Arab Emirates (3 C, 14 P) Ethnic groups in Uzbekistan (6 C, 32 ...