Question

The Lakshadweep Islands are situated in _______________.

• A. Indian Ocean
• B. Arabian Sea
• C. Bay of Bengal
• D. none of these

Answer 1

The correct option is B Arabian Sea

The Lakshadweep Islands are situated in Arabian Sea. Lakshadweep, formerly (1956–73) Laccadive, Minicoy, and Amindivi Islands, union territory of India. It is a group of some three dozen islands scattered over some 30,000 square miles (78,000 square km) of the Arabian Sea off the southwestern coast of India.

Lakshadweep, formerly the Laccadives, is a group of islands situated some 400 km off India's west coast in the Arabian sea. They are India's only coral atolls and geologically a part of the same chain as the Maldives. Lakshadweep is India's smallest union territory.