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BANGLADESH
NEPAL
BHUTAN
SRI LANKA
MALDIVES
INDIA
PAKISTAN
ONE DOT = 1,000 PEOPLE
237,000 people in South Asia die
without Christ.
The 1.7 billion people of South Asia are concentrated in an area less than half the size of the USA.
SOUTH ASIA has the largest unreached population in the world: 1.5 billion
1,975UNREACHEDPEOPLE GROUPS
MAJORRELIGIONS
BUDDHISM
SIKHISM
JAINISM
ISLAM
HINDUISM
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URDUBENGALI
MARATHI
HINDI
LARGEST URBAN AREASIN MILLIONS
KARACHIKOLKATA
DHAKAMUMBAI 29.4
15.720.2 20.3
14.8
DELHI
1.7 BILLIONPEOPLE
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F R O M T H E H E I G H T S O F T H E M I G H T Y H I M A L AYA S T O T H E C RY S TA L - C L E A R WAT E R S O F T H E M A L D I V E S , S O U T H A S I A I S B O T H AW E - I N S P I R I N G A N D H E A R T- W R E N C H I N G . I T I S T H E L A R G E S T C O N C E N T R AT I O N O F LO S T N E S S O N T H E P L A N E T. S O U T H A S I A I S T H E B I R T H P L A C E O F H I N D U I S M , B U D D H I S M , S I K H I S M , A N D J A I N I S M , A N D I S H O M E T O M O R E M U S L I M S T H A N A N Y O T H E R PA R T O F T H E W O R L D .
SOUTH ASIA
TELUGU PUNJABI
NO PLACE LEFT: LOCAL OWNERSHIP OF THE CORE MISSIONARY TASK FOR EVERY PEOPLE AND PLACE.
There are an estimated 22 million evangelical believers—1.54% of the population.
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