South India Travel Doc - Part 04

South India is the area containing the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry, occupying 19.31% of the surface. South India is situated on a peninsula of the Deccan Plateau and is characterized by the Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean and limited the Bay of Bengal to the west, south and east, respectively. The geography of the region is diverse and includes two mountain ranges - the Western Ghats and Eastern Ghats and a plateau heart.Rivers Godavari, Krishna and Tungabhadra Kaveri are important sources of water annually. Residents of South India are called South Indians. The majority of South Indians speak one of the five Dravidian languages ​​- Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Tulu. Throughout its history, a series of dynastic kingdoms ruled over parts of South India whose invasions in the South and Southeast Asia influenced the history and cultures of modern nation-states like Sri Lanka, Indonesia,Thailand and Malaysia. The region was colonized by the British and gradually absorbed the British Empire. After experiencing fluctuations in the decades immediately after Indian independence, the economies of the South Indian states have grown ten years above the national average over the last three decades. While the South Indian states in some socio-metric, economic inequality, illiteracy and poverty continue to improve the region as the rest of the influenceCountry ...