Capital: New Delhi
Official Language: Hindi - English
Currency: Indian rupee
The Republic of India is a
country in South Asia. It is the
seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous
country, and the most populous
democracy in the world. 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 in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and
the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand,
Myanmar, and Indonesia.