South Asia, also known as Southern Asia or the Indian Subcontinent, is the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan countries and, for some authorities (see below), also includes the adjoining countries to the west and the east. Topographically, it is dominated by the Indian Plate, which rises above sea level as the Indian subcontinent south of the Himalayas and the Hindu Kush. South Asia is surrounded (clockwise, from west) by Western Asia, Central Asia, Eastern Asia, Southeastern Asia and the Indian Ocean.

According to the United Nations geographical region classification, Southern Asia comprises the countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. By other definitions and interpretations (see below), Afghanistan, Burma, Iran, and Tibet are also sometimes included in the region of South Asia. South Asia is home to well over one fifth of the world's population, making it both the most populous and most densely populated geographical region in the world. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation is an economic cooperation organization in the region.

Asian people or Asiatic people is a term with multiple meanings that refers to people who descend from a portion of Asia's population.

Native ethnic groups of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan self-identify themselves as Asian. They are also recognized as Asian by Russians and Chinese.^{[citation needed]}

This self-identification is based phenotypically, and on cultural differences from Russians, as these countries used to be parts of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, and therefore have significant Russian populations. Another reason for such self-identification is patriotic: "the native people of the Center of Asia - are undoubtedly Asians".^{[citation needed]}

In parts of anglophone Africa, especially East Africa and South Africa, and in parts of the Anglophone Caribbean, the term "Asian" is more commonly associated with people of South Asian origin, particularly Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans.

Notably, the Australian Census includes Central Asia, a region that is often considered to be part of the Greater Middle East. The Australian Census includes four regions of Asia in its official definition. Defined by the 2006–2011 Australian Census, three broad groups have the word Asian included in their name: Central and Southern Asian, South-East Asian and North-East Asian. Russians are classified as Southern and Eastern Europeans while Middle Easterners are classified as North African and Middle Easterners.

Priyanka Chopra (pronounced [prɪˈjəŋkaː ˈtʃoːpɽaː]; born 18 July 1982) is an Indian actress, singer-songwriter and former Miss World. Before starting her acting career, she worked as a model and gained fame after winning the Miss World title in 2000. She is often referred to by the nickname "Piggy Chops", which was given to her by co-stars on the set of the film Bluffmaster! During her career, Chopra has received four Filmfare Awards, among seven nominations and one National Film Award for Best Actress.

Chopra made her acting debut with the 2002 Tamil film Thamizhan. The following year, she made her Bollywood film debut with The Hero: Love Story of a Spy and followed it with the hit Andaaz, for which she won a Filmfare Best Female Debut Award. In 2004, she became the second woman to win the Filmfare Best Villain Award, which she received for her critically acclaimed performance in Aitraaz. She subsequently appeared in successful films like Mujhse Shaadi Karogi (2004), Waqt: The Race Against Time (2005), Krrish (2006) and Don (2006).

Ayub Bachchu (born 16 August 1962) (Bengali: আইয়ুব বাচ্চু) is a famous Bangladeshi rock musician and a guitarist in the country. During 1980 - 1990 he was a member of Souls as lead guitarist. Finally he formed his own band AT 1991 titled LRB (the acronym originally came from Little River Band, but since another Australian band already had that name, Bachchu changed it to Love Runs Blind). LRB is the first band in Bangladeshi Band history to release two double albums and surprisingly enough, boldly of course their 1st album was a double album. The type was hard rock based like Madhobi, Dhakar Sondha etc.The public were not acquainted with that kind of music in Bangla before; the album was a huge success. Even though he started out as a Rock musician he eventually branched out to the more mainstream music of Bangladesh. He composed and played guitar in many songs for other artists; as a result, has gained a respectable fame among the musicians of Bangladesh. Nevertheless, Ayub Bachchu has contributed heavily to the development of Bangladeshi Rock Music. He is popular equally as a Singer as well as a Guitarist and Composer. He dedicated himself to promote all instrument players of Bangladesh and make instrument playing more popular here. His first instrumental album 'Sound of Silence' is a breakthrough in instrumental music in Bangladesh. Jimi Hendrix & Joe Satriani are his inspirations as a guitarist^{[citation needed]}. He is well known for his distinctive headgear and guitars. Widely known^{[by whom?]} for his technical efficiency on guitar, Ayub Bachchu is regularly cited^{[by whom?]} the best guitarists in the Continent-ASIA and one of the best off all time. He is extremely popular^{[peacock term]} for his blues influenced guitar playing which contains many of the high-skilled techniques^{[peacock term]} along with melodic approach. With his band LRB, he has popularized the blues-rock genre in his own language and gained the crowd attention for the live acts. Despite Satriani and Hendrix, LRB draw inspirations from many other rock bands like Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Dire Straits, Guns N'Roses, Led Zeppelin, Queen, and Nirvana.^{[citation needed]} Still Bachchu prefers to play covers of these bands in the live acts along with LRB and his own songs. Ayub Bachchu's musical contributions made LRB as the top band in his country which has popularity in overseas also. He once mentioned to have 28 guitars in his collection. He is generally seen with Ibanez and ESP guitars, though he prefers PRS, Carvin and Fender Stratocaster also. He has his own recording Studio at Mogbazar, Dhaka named, AB Kitchen.^{[citation needed]}