subcontinent

What it means

1. A large landmass which is either smaller than a continent (such as Greenland), or part of an even larger continent (such as the Indian subcontinent).

In a sentence

The Turks had acquired the culture of power of Persia and implemented its political and administrative traditions in the subcontinent.

2006, Ilhan Niaz, An Inquiry into the Culture of Power of the Subcontinent, page 290

Where it comes from

From sub- + continent.