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Southern Asia

The Indian subcontinent is a physiographic region of below the which projects into the Indian Ocean between the to the east and the Arabian Sea to the west.
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  • Type: Peninsula
  • Description: physiographical region in South Asia
  • Also known as: “Asian subcontinent”, “Indian subcontinent”, “South Asian subcontinent”, and “Subcontinent”

Southern Asia

Latitude
22.2078° or 22° 12′ 28″ north
Longitude
76.9702° or 76° 58′ 13″ east
Population
1,700,000,000
Elevation
277 metres (909 feet)
Open location code
7JJR6X5C+43
Geo­Names ID
6269134
Wiki­data ID
Q60140
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Southern Asia” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Indiese subkontinent”
  • Albanian: “Nënkontinenti indian”
  • Arabic: “القارة الهندية”
  • Arabic: “شبه القارة الهندية”
  • Arabic: “شبه قارة الهند”
  • Armenian: “Հինդուստան”
  • Armenian: “Հնդկական ենթացամաք”
  • Armenian: “Հնդկական թերակղզի”
  • Armenian: “Հնդուստան թերակղզի”
  • Armenian: “Հնդստան թերակղզի”
  • Arpitan: “Sot-continent endien”
  • Assamese: “ভাৰতীয় উপমহাদেশ”
  • Asturian: “socontinente indiu”
  • Asturian: “Socontinente indiu”
  • Awadhi: “भारतीय उपमहाद्वीप”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hindistan yarımqitəsi”
  • Balinese: “Panak benua India”
  • Bashkir: “Һинд субконтиненты”
  • Basque: “Indiako azpikontinentea”
  • Basque: “Indiar penintsula”
  • Belarusian: “Індыйскі субкантынент”
  • Belarusian: “Індыйскі субкантынэнт”
  • Bengali: “উপমহাদেশ”
  • Bengali: “এশীয় উপমহাদেশ”
  • Bengali: “দক্ষিণ এশীয় উপমহাদেশ”
  • Bengali: “ভারতীয় উপমহাদেশ”
  • Bhojpuri: “भारतीय उपमहादीप”
  • Bhojpuri: “भारतीय उपमहाद्वीप”
  • Bosnian: “Indijski potkontinent”
  • Breton: “Iskevandir Indez”
  • Breton: “Iskevandir India”
  • Bulgarian: “Индийски субконтинент”
  • Catalan: “Indostan”
  • Catalan: “Península indostànica”
  • Catalan: “subcontinent indi”
  • Catalan: “Subcontinent indi”
  • Catalan: “Subcontinent indostànic”
  • Cebuano: “Indian Subcontinent”
  • Central Bikol: “Subkontinenteng Indio”
  • Central Kurdish: “نیمچەکیشوەری ھیندی”
  • Chechen: “ХӀиндин субконтинент”
  • Chinese: “Ìn-tō͘ chhù-tāi-lio̍k”
  • Chinese: “南亚次大陆”
  • Chinese: “南亞次大陸”
  • Chinese: “印度半岛”
  • Chinese: “印度半島”
  • Chinese: “印度次大陆”
  • Chinese: “印度次大陸”
  • Croatian: “Indijski potkontinent”
  • Czech: “Indická platforma”
  • Czech: “Indický subkontinent”
  • Danish: “Det indiske subkontinent”
  • Danish: “Indiske subkontinent”
  • Dhivehi: “ބައްރެސަޣީރު”
  • Dutch: “Indiaas subcontinent”
  • Dutch: “Indiaas Subcontinent”
  • Dutch: “Indiase Schiereiland”
  • Dutch: “Indiase subcontinent”
  • Dutch: “Indisch subcontinent”
  • Dutch: “Indische subcontinent”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شبه القاره الهنديه”
  • Esperanto: “Barata subkontinento”
  • Esperanto: “Hinda duoninsulo”
  • Esperanto: “Hinda Sub-Kontinento”
  • Esperanto: “Hinda subkontinento”
  • Esperanto: “Hindia Subkontinento”
  • Esperanto: “Hindio”
  • Estonian: “Hindustan”
  • Estonian: “Hindustani poolsaar”
  • Estonian: “India poolsaar”
  • Extremaduran: “Sucontinenti Indiu”
  • Finnish: “Etu-Intia”
  • Finnish: “Intian niemimaa”
  • French: “hindoustan”
  • French: “indo-pakistanais”
  • French: “monde indien”
  • French: “sous-continent indien”
  • French: “Sous-continent indien”
  • French: “sud de l’Asie”
  • Galician: “subcontinente indio”
  • Galician: “Subcontinente indio”
  • Georgian: “ინდოეთის სუბკონტინენტი”
  • German: “indischer Subkontinent”
  • German: “Indischer Subkontinent”
  • Greek: “Ινδική υποήπειρος”
  • Gujarati: “ભારતીય ઉપખંડ”
  • Hausa: “Geology na yankin Indiya”
  • Hebrew: “תת היבשת ההודית”
  • Hebrew: “תת-היבשת ההודית”
  • Hindi: “कृष्णमृग”
  • Hindi: “भारतीय उपमहाद्वीप”
  • Hindi: “हिंद उपमहाद्वीप”
  • Hungarian: “Indiai szubkontinens”
  • Icelandic: “Indlandsskagi”
  • Iloko: “Indiano a subkontinente”
  • Iloko: “subkontinente Indiano”
  • Iloko: “Subkontinente Indiano”
  • Iloko: “subkontinente”
  • Indonesian: “anak benua India”
  • Indonesian: “Anak benua India”
  • Interlingua: “subcontinente indian”
  • Interlingua: “Subcontinente indian”
  • Irish: “fo-ilchríoch na hIndia”
  • Italian: “Hindustan”
  • Italian: “Indostan”
  • Italian: “penisola indiana”
  • Italian: “subcontinente indiano”
  • Italian: “Subcontinente indiano”
  • Japanese: “インド亜大陸”
  • Japanese: “インド半島”
  • Japanese: “インド大陸”
  • Japanese: “印度亜大陸”
  • Kabyle: “Azunmenẓaw n Lhend”
  • Kannada: “ಭಾರತ ಉಪಖಂಡ”
  • Kannada: “ಭಾರತೀಯ ಉಪಖಂಡ”
  • Kashmiri: “بَرِصَغیٖر ہِند”
  • Kashmiri: “ہِندوستٲنؠ برِصغیٖر”
  • Kazakh: “Үндістан түбегі”
  • Korean: “인도 대륙”
  • Korean: “인도 반도”
  • Korean: “인도 아대륙”
  • Korean: “인도대륙”
  • Korean: “인도아대륙”
  • Korean: “인디아 반도”
  • Latin: “Subcontinens Indica”
  • Latvian: “Indijas subkontinents”
  • Lithuanian: “Indijos subkontinentas”
  • Macedonian: “Индиски Потконтинент”
  • Magahi: “भारतीय उपमहादेस”
  • Magahi: “भारतीय उपमहाद्वीप”
  • Maithili: “भारतीय उपमहाद्वीप”
  • Malagasy: “Zana-kôntinenta indiana”
  • Malagasy: “Zana-Kôntinenta Indiana”
  • Malay: “Benua India”
  • Malay: “Subbenua India”
  • Malayalam: “Indian subcontinent”
  • Malayalam: “ഇന്ത്യൻ ഉപഭൂഖണ്ഡം”
  • Marathi: “भारतीय उपखंड”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ìn-tō͘ chhù-tāi-lio̍k”
  • Mingrelian: “ინდოეთიშ სუბკონტინენტი”
  • Nepali: “भारतीय उपमहाद्वीप”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den indiske halvøy”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den indiske halvøya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Det indiske subkontinent”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Det indiske subkontinentet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Indiske halvøy”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Indiske subkontinent”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Indiske subkontinentet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Den indiske halvøya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Den indiske plata”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Det indiske subkontinentet”
  • Norwegian: “Det indiske subkontinent”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Soscontinent indian”
  • Oriya: “ଭାରତ ଉପମହାଦେଶ”
  • Oriya: “ଭାରତୀୟ ଉପମହାଦେଶ”
  • Ossetian: “Индийы субконтинент”
  • Panjabi: “ਭਾਰਤੀ ਉਪਮਹਾਂਦੀਪ”
  • Persian: “شبه قاره هند”
  • Persian: “شبه قارهٔ هند”
  • Persian: “شبه‌جزیره هند”
  • Persian: “شبه‌قاره هند”
  • Persian: “شبه‌قارهٔ هند”
  • Persian: “منگالور”
  • Polish: “Subkontynent indyjski”
  • Portuguese: “Hindustão”
  • Portuguese: “Indostão”
  • Portuguese: “Industão”
  • Portuguese: “Península da Índia”
  • Portuguese: “Península indiana”
  • Portuguese: “Sub-continente indiano”
  • Portuguese: “Subcontinente indiano”
  • Pushto: “د هند نيمه لويه وچه”
  • Romanian: “lumea indiană”
  • Romanian: “subcontinentul Indian”
  • Romanian: “Subcontinentul Indian”
  • Romanian: “sudul Asiei”
  • Russian: “Индийский субконтинент”
  • Russian: “Индостан”
  • Sanskrit: “उपमहाद्वीपः”
  • Sanskrit: “दक्षिणजम्बुद्वीपे उपमहाद्वीपः”
  • Sanskrit: “भारतीय उपमहाद्वीप”
  • Sanskrit: “भारतीय उपमहाद्वीपः”
  • Sanskrit: “हिन्द उपमहाद्वीपः”
  • Sardinian: “Subcontinente indianu”
  • Scots: “Indie subcontinent”
  • Serbian: “Индијски потконтинент”
  • Serbian: “Индијско полуострво”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Indijski potkontinent”
  • Sicilian: “Suttacuntinenti innianu”
  • Sindhi: “ننڍو کنڊ”
  • Sinhala: “ඉන්දියානු උප මහාද්වීපය”
  • Sinhala: “ඉන්දීය උප මහාද්වීපය”
  • Slovak: “Indický polostrov”
  • Slovak: “Indický subkontinent”
  • Slovak: “Predná India”
  • Slovenian: “Indijska podcelina”
  • Slovenian: “Indijski podkontinent”
  • Slovenian: “Indijski polotok”
  • Slovenian: “Prednja Indija”
  • Spanish: “el Subcontinente”
  • Spanish: “India”
  • Spanish: “península del Indostán”
  • Spanish: “península india”
  • Spanish: “península índica”
  • Spanish: “península indostaní”
  • Spanish: “subcontinente asiático”
  • Spanish: “Subcontinente indico”
  • Spanish: “Subcontinente índico”
  • Spanish: “subcontinente indio”
  • Spanish: “Subcontinente indio”
  • Spanish: “Subcontinente Indio”
  • Spanish: “subcontinente sudasiático”
  • Spanish: “subcontinente surasiático”
  • Spanish: “Sudasiatica”
  • Spanish: “Sudasiática”
  • Spanish: “Surasia”
  • Swahili: “Bara Hindi”
  • Swedish: “Indian Subcontinent”
  • Swedish: “Indiska halvön”
  • Swedish: “Indiska subkontinenten”
  • Swiss German: “Dr Indisch Subkontinänt”
  • Tagalog: “Subkontinenteng Indiyano”
  • Tagalog: “Subkontinenteng Indiyo”
  • Tamil: “இந்திய உபகண்டம்”
  • Tamil: “இந்தியத் துணைக்கண்டம்”
  • Tamil: “தீபகற்ப இந்தியா”
  • Tatar: “Һинд субкыйтгасы”
  • Telugu: “భారత ఉపఖండం”
  • Telugu: “భారత ఉపఖండము”
  • Thai: “อนุทวีปอินเดีย”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Indischer Subkontinent”
  • Turkish: “Hint alt kıtası”
  • Turkish: “Hint altkıtası”
  • Ukrainian: “Індійський субконтинент”
  • Urdu: “براعظم ہند”
  • Urdu: “براعظم ہندوستان”
  • Urdu: “برصغیر پاک و ہند”
  • Urdu: “برصغیر ہند”
  • Urdu: “برصغیر”
  • Urdu: “ہندوستان”
  • Venetian: “subcontinente indian”
  • Vietnamese: “Tiểu lục địa Ấn Độ”
  • Võro: “Hindustani puulsaar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Subkontinente han India”
  • Welsh: “Is-gyfandir India”
  • Welsh: “Isgyfandir India”
  • Western Armenian: “Հինտուստան”
  • Western Frisian: “Yndiaaske subkontinint”
  • Western Frisian: “Yndysk subkontinint”
  • Western Panjabi: “برصغیر پاک و ہند”
  • Wolof: “Ron-goxu End”
  • Wu Chinese: “印度次大陆”
  • Yue Chinese: “印度次大陸”
  • “Hindustani puulsaar”
  • “भारतीय उपमहादीप”

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