Question

India is surrounded by water bodies on three sides and land on the other; therefore, it is a ___________.
A) Continent
B) Sub-continent
C) Peninsula
D) Island

Answer 1

Hint:
i) One of the options means landform surrounded by water although linked to a mainland from which it extends .
ii) A something is a long narrow piece of land that stands out from a larger piece of land and is surrounded almost entirely by water.
iii) In India, a total of 1,208 islands (including uninhabited) exist.
iv) India belongs to asia continent.

Complete answer:
India is surrounded on three sides by water bodies and on the other by land, so it is a peninsula. The Indian peninsula is surrounded by the western Arabian Sea, the eastern Bay of Bengal, and the southern Indian Ocean.

its peninsular area delineated by the Himalayas in the north, the Hindu Kush in the west, and the Arakanese in the east. With the Arabian Sea to the southwest and the Bay of Bengal to the southeast, it stretches southward into the Indian Ocean.

Now lets see our options :
A) Continent : india belongs to ASIA continent thus this option is wrong
B) Sub-continent: india belongs to south asia sub continent thus this option is wrong too
C) Peninsula: India is surrounded on three sides by water bodies and on the other by land, so it is a peninsula thus this is the right option.
D) Island : An island is an isolated piece of land surrounded on all sides by water but india is surrounded by three sides only thus this is the wrong option.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘C’.

Note: Islands can only be reached by air or water as they are not connected to any mass of land. The peninsulas are connected by an isthmus to the mainland and can therefore be accessed by land, air and water.

With its comparatively large land area of 10,180,000 square kilometres (3,930,000 sq mi), Europe is widely considered a continent, while South Asia is considered a subcontinent with less than half that area.