Lakshadweep Islands are located in the ______

India's mainland coastline borders two distinct arms of the Indian Ocean: the Arabian Sea along the west coast and the Bay of Bengal along the east coast. India's two major offshore island territories sit one in each arm -- never in the same one.

The Lakshadweep archipelago is a chain of small coral atolls off India's south-western coast, near Kerala, rising from the waters of the Arabian Sea. This is what fixes the correct location as the Arabian Sea.

Checking each option by what it actually is:

• Pacific Ocean -- an entirely separate basin east of Asia and Australia; it does not border India at all.

• Bay of Bengal -- the eastern arm of the Indian Ocean, off India's east coast; it hosts a different Indian island territory, not the coral atolls of Lakshadweep.

• Indian Ocean -- the umbrella basin containing both coastal seas; too broad to name the specific sea the archipelago sits within.

Hence, Lakshadweep Islands are located in the Arabian Sea.