Insular South Asia

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A depiction of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, the two small island nations in the narrow definition of Insular South Asia.

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]

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