Which area on the Earth is named after a group of people - and has the largest area on this Earth -to be named after a group of people or nation?
 
Indian Ocean (Hind Mahasagar) ofcourse!! twice the size of  Russia and 5 times the size of USA.
 
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/xo.html
 
check out the above CIA handbook data on it.
 
Umesh
 
PS: As some people argue that India did not exist before British or Mughals came --then why did ancient folks (cartographers etc) name this Ocean as the Indian ocean?


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