India (Listeni/ˈɪndiə/), officially the Republic of India (Bharat Ganrajya)[c], is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country sejak area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded sejak 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;[d] China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north-east; and Burma and Bangladesh to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; in addition,...
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