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The other three continents of Buddhist accounts around Sumeru are not accessible to humans from Jambudvīpa. Jambudvīpa is shaped like a triangle with a blunted point facing south, somewhat like the Indian subcontinent. In its center is a gigantic Jambu tree from which the continent takes its name, meaning "Jambu Island".
From the 16th century the English noun continent was derived from the term continent land, meaning continuous or connected land [5] and translated from the Latin terra continens. [6] The noun was used to mean "a connected or continuous tract of land" or mainland . [ 5 ]
Dvipa (Sanskrit: द्वीप, lit. 'island', IAST: Dvīpa) [1] is a term in Hindu cosmography. The Puranas describe a dvipa to be one of the seven islands [2] or continents that are present on earth, each of them surrounded by an ocean. [3]
[33] [43] The seven continents are named Jambu, Plaksha, Salmala, Kusha, Krauncha, Saka, and Pushkara, each surrounded by different types of oceans (saltwater, freshwater, wine, sugarcane juice, ghrita, yogurt, and milk). [33] [42] This part of the Vishnu Purana describes spheres above the Earth, Planets, the Sun and the Moon.
Vespucci, following his four voyages exploring the coastlines of Venezuela and Brazil, first developed the idea that the newly discovered western land was in fact a continent. The German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller created the earliest known map showing the name America, which he applied to the South American continent only.
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The Indian subcontinent [note 7] is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas. Geographically, it spans the countries of Bangladesh , Bhutan , India , [ note 1 ] Maldives , [ note 2 ] Nepal , [ note 3 ] Pakistan , [ note 4 ] and Sri Lanka .
(Definitions of "continents" are a physical and cultural construct dating back centuries, long before the advent or even knowledge of plate tectonics; thus, defining a "continent" falls into the realm of physical and cultural geography (i.e. geopolitics), while continental plate definitions fall under plate tectonics in the realm of geology.)