According to the Garuda Purana, a soul after leaving the body, travels through a very long & dark tunnel towards South.

According to South American mythology the belief of the Brazilian Indians, who live alongside the Parima River in Brazil, claim that their forefathers emerged in ancient times from an underground land, and that many of their ancestors still remained inside the earth.

According to his sister Asia, Booth confided to her that he also used his position to smuggle quinine to the South during his travels there, helping the Confederacy obtain the needed drug despite the Northern blockade.

According to Agassiz the provinces that the different races were created in included Western American Temperate ( the indigenous peoples west of the Rockies ); Eastern American Temperate ( east of the Rockies ); Tropical Asiatic ( south of the Himalayas ); Temperate Asiatic ( east of the Urals and north of the Himalayas ); South American Temperate ( South America ); New Holland ( Australia ); Arctic ( Alaska and Arctic Canada ); Cape of Good Hope ( South Africa ); and American Tropical ( Central America and the West Indies ).

According to the European Journal of Human Genetics, Moroccans from North-Western Africa are genetically closer to Iberians and other South Europeans than to Middle Easterners and Sub-Saharan Africans.

* 12 April 2007 According to Engineering News, a South Korean consortium has agreed to build a new 800 km railway in the Congo-Brazzaville Republic in return for timber concessions.

According to Australian maps, South Australia's south coast is flanked by the Southern Ocean, but official international consensus defines the Southern Ocean as extending north from the pole only to 60 ° S or 55 ° S, at least 17 degrees of latitude further south than the most southern point of South Australia.

According to ' The Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora ' ( published in 2006 ), " independent surveys approximate the number of South Asians on work permits to be between 30-35 per cent of the total ' Indian ' population in Singapore, or approximately 90, 000-100, 000.

According to Neotel, up-take of its services has exceeded expectations, and as a result Neotel are rapidly expanding services throughout major metropolitan areas in South Africa.

According to the Bible, during Solomon's reign Israel enjoyed great commercial prosperity, with extensive traffic being carried on by land with Tyre, Egypt, and Arabia, and by sea with Tarshish, Ophir, and South India.

According to the contemporary Indian philosopher and tantric author, founder of Ananda Marga school of Tantra Yoga, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, also known by his spiritual name, Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, tantra had its origin in India and South Asia.

* According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Aelle, first king of the South Saxons, lands on the Sussex coast ( England ), with his three sons, near Cymenshore.

According to this study, Western African lions are more closely related to Asian lions than to South or East African lions.

According to the most recently available figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the average income of the Albury area is $ 36K per year, below the $ 42K average for the state of New South Wales.

According to Captain Phillip's amended Commission, dated 25 April 1787, the colony included all the islands adjacent in the Pacific Ocean within the latitudes of 10 ° 37 ' S and 43 ° 39 ' S which included most of New Zealand except for the southern half of the South Island.

According to Record and Hess, all of the mahogany of continental North and South America can be considered as one botanical species, Swietenia macrophylla King.

According to the author Garry Boulard in his book Abraham Lincoln Ascendent, it was Sherman's 1859 endorsement of the controversial anti-slavery book, The Impending Crisis of the South, written by Hinton Helper, that doomed Sherman's chances of becoming Speaker.

According to an investigation by the South Korean government, 75, 311 cultural assets were taken from Korea.

According to the abbey's records, in which he was called princeps Australium Saxonum, Eadwinus nomine ( Eadwine leader of the South Saxons ), he bequeathed estates to them in his will, although the document itself has not survived.

According to adherents of the Latter Day Saint movement, these animals are thought to have existed in North and / or South America.

According to the North American archeological and Aboriginal genetic evidence, North and South America were the last continents in the world with human habitation.

( According to The Guardian of 26 July 1991, Pik Botha told a press conference that the South African government had paid more than £ 20 million to at least seven political parties in Namibia to oppose SWAPO in the run-up to the 1989 elections.

According to Cavalli-Sforza, Ainu are in the same genetic cluster as the " Northeast and East Asian ".

According to the 2010 Census, 68. 4 % of the population was White ( 40. 5 % non-Hispanic white ), 2. 1 % was Black or African American, 9. 4 % American Indian and Alaska Native, 1. 4 % Asian, 0. 1 % Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander, 3. 7 % from two or more races.

According to author David Greven, " Ensign Hoshi Sato is an Asian American linguist and the communications officer.

According to plate reconstructions, the island is believed to have been formed by the collision of terranes from the Asian Plate ( forming the west and southwest ), from the Australian Plate ( forming the southeast and Banggai ), and from island arcs previously in the Pacific ( forming the north and east peninsulas ).

According to the 2010 U. S. Census Bureau of Labor Statistics, 51. 8 % of all Chinese Americans have attained at least a bachelor's degree, compared with 28. 2 % nationally and 49. 9 % for all Asian American groups.

According to David Ownby, Professor of History and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the Université de Montréal, Li became an " instant star of the qigong movement ", and Falun Gong was embraced by the government as an effective means of lowering health care costs, promoting Chinese culture, and improving public morality.

* According to the United States Census Bureau, Americans who identify themselves as Hispanic or Latino, African American, Asian, Pacific Islander, and Native American will collectively outnumber Whites of non-Hispanic origin.

According to official census figures, Hamilton's population is 65. 3 % Pākehā / European, 19. 9 % Māori, 10. 6 % Asian, 4. 2 % Pacific Peoples and 1. 5 % Middle Eastern, Latin American and African.

According to the Census of 2010, the racial makeup of the county was 89. 22 % White, 4. 64 % Black or African American, 0. 17 % Native American, 2. 56 % Asian, 0. 04 % Pacific Islander, 1. 30 % from other races, and 2. 06 % from two or more races.

According the census of 1990 the racial makeup of the county was 64 % non-Hispanic White or European American, 33. 9 % non-Hispanic Black or African American, 0. 26 % Native American, 0. 91 % Asian, 0. 00 % Pacific Islander, 0. 4 % from other races, and 0. 51 % from two or more races.

According the census of 2000 the racial makeup of the county was 65. 20 % non-Hispanic White or European American, 32. 46 % non-Hispanic Black or African American, 0. 16 % Native American, 0. 63 % Asian, 0. 01 % Pacific Islander, 0. 67 % from other races, and 0. 86 % from two or more races.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, in 2008, Finney County became a minority-majority county, where 50 percent of all people identified as minorities, mostly Hispanic and Asian.

According to the 2010 U. S Census, the racial makeup of the county was 40. 9 % White, 45. 8 % Black, 0. 2 % American Indian, 1. 8 % Asian, 0. 1 % Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 0. 3 % Other race, and 1. 6 % from two or more races.

According to 2005 Census Estimates Liberty County had a population that was 44. 5 % African-American, 44. 4 % Non-Hispanic white, 7. 2 % Latino, 3. 1 % non-Hispanics who reported multiple races, 1. 9 % Asian and 0. 5 % of both Native Americans and Pacific Islanders.

According to Census Estimates in 2006, Hall County was 65. 7 % non-Hispanic whites, 25. 5 % Hispanic or Latino, 6. 8 % Black and 1. 6 % Asian.

According to the 200 census racial makeup of the city was 46. 23 % White, 52. 78 % Black or African American, 0. 19 % Native American, 0. 19 % Asian, 0. 03 % Pacific Islander, 0. 08 % from other races, and 0. 50 % from two or more races.

According to a federal indictment, the AB has partnered with Asian gangs to import heroin from Thailand.

According to the Government of Canada 2006 census, 94. 2 % of the population were Caucasian ; of the visible minorities, 1. 7 % were Chinese, 1. 2 % were South Asian, and 0. 8 % were black.

According to the 2000 census, 97. 21 % of people are white, 0. 81 % are black or African American, 1. 19 % are Asian, 0. 10 % are Native American, and 1. 00 % are " other ".

According to the 2010 Census, the city's population was 89. 6 % White ( 86. 9 % Non-Hispanic White alone ), 0. 8 % Black or African American, 4. 4 % American Indian and Alaska Native, 0. 7 % Asian, 0. 1 % Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, 1. 4 % from Some Other Race and 2. 9 % from Two or More Races.

According the 2010 Census, the racial makeup of the village was 96. 5 % White, 0. 8 % African American, 0. 2 % American Indian or Alaska Native, 1. 5 % Asian, 0. 0 % Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, and 0. 1 % Some Other Race.

According to the 2006-2008 American Community Survey, The racial makeup of the town was 82. 3 % White, 10. 1 % African American or Black,. 3 % American Indian or Alaska Native, 3. 7 % Asian, 0. 00 % Pacific Islander, 1. 8 % of other race, and 1. 7 % from two or more races.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, " Asian person " in the United States is sometimes thought of as a person of East Asian descent.