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India
Republic of India
Timeline: A Letter from Gandhi

OTL equivalent: India and Sri Lanka
Flag Coat of Arms
Flag Coat of Arms
Motto
Satyameva Jayate
Anthem "Jana Gana Mana"
Capital New Delhi
Largest city Mumbai
Language
  official
 
Hindi
  others English
Demonym Indian
Government Federal parliamentary

republic

President Pranab Mukherjee
Prime-minister Narendra Modi
Area 3,287,590 km²
Population 1,276,267,000 
Independence from United Kingdom
  declared 15 May 1943
  recognized 27 October 1949
Internet TLD .in

 India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by 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 Myanmar (Burma) and Bangladesh to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of the Maldives; in addition, India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.

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