Words similar to subcontinent

Example sentences for: subcontinent

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The controversy began in 1947, when Great Britain withdrew from the Indian subcontinent, creating two states--India (predominantly Hindu) and Pakistan (predominantly Muslim)--out of the subcontinent's hundreds of territories.
Now the Taliban are trying to take over Pakistan, an incredibly strategic juncture between East and West, continent and subcontinent.
In the quiz, Bush had failed to name three of those leaders and had asserted that the leader of Pakistan, a general who had overthrown the country's elected government, recently "took over office … is going to bring stability to the country, and I think that's good news for the subcontinent."
The Star also criticized Clinton for his handling of the nuclear weapons crisis in the Indian subcontinent: He should replace "sanctions, disapprobation, and isolation" with the promotion of India to the United Nations Security Council and the Group of Eight in exchange for India holding a plebiscite in Kashmir.
Some of the words in my sampling may or may not be Hindi loanwords; that is, etymologists are uncertain whether they are properly attributable to Hindi or some other language of the subcontinent.