India is the second most populous country in the world with over 1.2 billion people. It is located in South Asia and bounded by Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma and Bangladesh. India has a diverse landscape and population, and is home to many ancient civilizations and various ethnic groups that practice religions like Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism. New Delhi is the capital of India which is a democratic republic consisting of 28 states and 7 union territories under a parliamentary system.
India is the second most populous country in the world with over 1.2 billion people. It is located in South Asia and bounded by Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma and Bangladesh. India has a diverse landscape and population, and is home to many ancient civilizations and various ethnic groups that practice religions like Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism. New Delhi is the capital of India which is a democratic republic consisting of 28 states and 7 union territories under a parliamentary system.
India is the second most populous country in the world with over 1.2 billion people. It is located in South Asia and bounded by Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma and Bangladesh. India has a diverse landscape and population, and is home to many ancient civilizations and various ethnic groups that practice religions like Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism. New Delhi is the capital of India which is a democratic republic consisting of 28 states and 7 union territories under a parliamentary system.
India is the second most populous country in the world with over 1.2 billion people. It is located in South Asia and bounded by Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma and Bangladesh. India has a diverse landscape and population, and is home to many ancient civilizations and various ethnic groups that practice religions like Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism. New Delhi is the capital of India which is a democratic republic consisting of 28 states and 7 union territories under a parliamentary system.
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INDIA: AT A GLANCE
India is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the south-west, and the Bay of Bengal on the south-east, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north-east; and Burma and Bangladesh to the east.
India is home to the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation and a region of historic trade routes and vast empires, the Indian subcontinent was identified with its commercial and cultural wealth for much of its long history
CAPITAL New Delhi
ADMINISTRATIVE 28 States and 7 Union Territories DIVISIONS GOVERNMENT TYPE Democratic Republic HEAD OF THE COUNTRY President AREA 3.3 Million sq. km COASTLINE 7517 km INDIAN STANDARD TIME GMT + 05:30 CLIMATE Tropical Monsoon type GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION 21° N & 78° E (Northern Hemisphere) NATURAL RESOURCES Coal, Iron ore, mica, bauxite, petroleum, titanium ore, chromite, natural gas, magnesite, limestone, , dolomite, , kaolin, gypsum, apatite, phosphorite, steatite, fluorite
The Indian economy is the world's tenth-largest by nominal GDP and third-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP). Following market-based economic reforms in 1991, India became one of the fastest-growing major economies; it is considered a newly industrialised country. A nuclear weapons state and a regional power, it has the third-largest standing army in the world and ranks ninth in military expenditure among nations. India is a federal constitutional republic governed under a parliamentary system consisting of 28 states and 7 union territories. It is one of the five BRICS nations. India is a pluralistic, multilingual, and multiethnic society. It is also home to a diversity of wildlife in a variety of protected habitats.
POPULATION 1210.19 Million
MALES 623.7 Million, FEMALES 586.5 Million DENSITY OF POPULATION 382 Persons (Per Square Kilometer) ETHNIC GROUPS All the five major racial types - Australoid, Mongoloid, Europoid, Caucasian, and Negroid MAJOR RELIGION Hinduism (80.5%) OFFICIAL LANGUAGE Hindi LITERACY RATE 74.04%
