What are the economic characteristics of South Asia

South Asia's economic characteristics: a comprehensive economy based on agricultural production, supplemented by industry.

South Asia is a developing country, are based on agriculture as the basis of the national economy, but with the rapid development of the economy, there are now some high-tech industries have been developed, such as India's "Silicon Valley" Bangalore and so on. Most of the countries in South Asia for the traditional agricultural countries, its economy is characterized by agricultural production, industry as a complement to the integrated economy.

South Asia refers to the south of the Himalayas in southern Asia, south of the western section of the Himalayas and the Indian Ocean between the vast area. It is bordered by the Bay of Bengal to the east and the Arabian Sea to the west. One of the Himalayas south of a large peninsula-shaped land is also known as the South Asian subcontinent, the Indo-Pakistani subcontinent and the Indian subcontinent. Located at 0°-37°N, 60°E-97°E, the land is basically between 10°-30°N latitude, with a north-south and east-west distance of about 3,100 kilometers each. South Asia **** there are seven countries, including Nepal, Bhutan for the landlocked countries, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh for the coastal countries, Sri Lanka, Maldives for the island countries. South Asia is both one of the world's four major civilizations originated, but also Buddhism, Hinduism and other religions originated.

Economic characteristics of Asian countries: Asia's vast territory, the natural, social and historical conditions of different countries vary greatly, unbalanced economic development. A few belong to the developed countries, most of them belong to the developing countries, the economic development of the developing countries are also very different. Asia in addition to Japan, in the past a long time under colonial rule, economic underdevelopment, industrial base is generally weak, most countries since independence, the national economy has had some development, especially from the 1970s onwards, East Asia, Southeast Asia, some countries, such as Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand and so on, has vigorously develop the export processing industry, to promote the development of the national economy. Countries along the Persian Gulf coast of West Asia, such as Saudi Arabia, because of the large number of exports of petroleum resources, and become relatively rich countries.