India

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Country in South Asia

India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the world's seventh-largest country by area and the largest by population. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is near Sri Lanka and the Maldives.

Also known as...Republic of India, Bharat, Bharatvarsh, Hindustan, Bharata, Hindoostan, Indostan, Bharat Ganarajya, Al Hind, Tianzhu, and Tenjiku
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