Places (South Asia) (1)

* Calicut, India:

India

- Kozhikode (also known as Calicut) is a city in the northern part of the state of Kerala in southern India.
- During Classical antiquity and the Middle Ages, Calicut was dubbed  (được đặt cho cái tên là) the "City of Spices" for its role as the major trading point of eastern spices.
- Vasco da Gama landed in Calicut in 1498.
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* Sri Lanka <Ceylon (Ceylonese)>:
- Sri Lanka was known as Ceylon until 1972. Sri Lanka is now famous for 'tea' (Ceylon tea).
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* Malabar, India:
- Malabar Region is a region of southern India, lying between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea. The name is thought to be derived from the Malayalam word Mala (hill) and puram (region) derived or westernised into bar. This part of India was a part of the British East India Company-controlled Madras State, when it was designated as Malabar District. It included the northern half of the state of Kerala and some coastal regions of present day Karnataka. The area is predominantly Hindu but the majority of Kerala's Muslim population known as Mappila also live in this area, as well as a sizable ancient Christian population.The name is sometimes extended to the entire southwestern coast of the peninsula, called the Malabar Coast. Malabar is also used by ecologists to refer to the tropical moist forests of southwestern India (present day Kerala). It is important to note that in ancient times, the term Malabar was used to denote the entire south-western coast of the Indian peninsula. But, today Malabar is only used for the former Malabar district, or northern districts of Kerala state.
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* Maldives:

Kashmir

- The Maldives, officially Republic of Maldives, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean formed by a double chain of twenty-six atolls stretching in a north-south direction off India's Lakshadweep islands, between Minicoy Island and Chagos Archipelago. It stands in the Laccadive Sea, about some hundreds kilometers south-west of Sri Lanka and south-west of India. During the colonial era, the Dutch referred to the country as "Maldivische Eilanden" in their documentation, while "Maldive Islands" is the anglicised version of the local name used by the British, which later came to be written "Maldives".
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* Kashmir:
- Kashmir is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term Kashmir geographically denoted only the valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal mountain range. Today Kashmir denotes a larger area that includes the Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir, the Pakistani-administered Gilgit-Baltistan and the Azad Kashmir provinces, and the Chinese-administered regions of Aksai Chin and Trans-Karakoram Tract.
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* Chennai, India:
- Chennai (formerly known as Madras)  is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal (the largest bay in the world).