CIA World FactBook

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's five ocean basins (after the...

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five ocean basins (after the...

The Arctic Ocean is the smallest of the world's five ocean basins (after the Pacific...

The first Sinhalese arrived in Sri Lanka late in the 6th century B.C., probably from...

The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world and dating back at...

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the principality of Gorkha united many of...

A sultanate since the 12th century, the Maldives became a British protectorate in 1887 and...

The Indus Valley civilization, one of the world's oldest, flourished during the 3rd and 2nd...

Formerly administered as part of the British Crown Colony of Mauritius, the British Indian Ocean...

After Britain’s victory in the 1865 Duar War, Britain and Bhutan signed the Treaty of...

The huge delta region at the confluence of the Ganges and Brahmaputra River systems --...