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.