Island. Dweep is a combination of two words - Dwi, means two; and ap, means water; Dweep means land between two waters. Island. According to Hindu mythology This Prithvi was divided in seven islands and seven seas. India's name was Jamboo Dweep, Bhaarat Varsh, Bharat Khand. Perhaps USA comes under Kraunch Dweep, Ramanak Varsh, Uttar or Goteerth Khand.

The globe (Jumboo Dweep) has the round configuration of seven concentric circles of a lotus flower with a diameter of 100,000 Yojan (800,000 miles). Each Dweep (continent) consist of nine Varsh (countries or subdivisions).

Varsh = Country; division of the earth by nine mountain ranges; rain; year.)
Each Varsh is 72,000 miles in extent. In the epicenter of the surface of the globe is present the inner Varsh,
Ilaavrat, which again in its center has the principal mountain range, the king of Mountains, Meru, the Axis Mundee.
Meru = Sumeru = Very exalted, the mountain of the gods. It appears that Sumeru and Sumeria are cognate. Sumeru reaches into the firmament by height of 672,000 miles.
Consider Himalayas (Mount Everest) reaching a height of only 5.5 miles (29,035 feet).
The Moon is only at the distance of 238,906 miles from the Earth.
The flat top of the Mount Meru is 2.81 times the distance of the Moon from the Earth. Mount Meru is made of pure gold. It forms the circular pericarp of the lotus-like globe, in which the base (lower end) of the pericarp lies 16,000 Yojan (128,000 miles) below the earth; the base measures also 16,000 Yojan in diameter. The corolla of the mountain measures 32,000 Yojan (256,000 miles). On the top of the Mount Meru is the City of Brahmaa.