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India (in Hindi, Bharat), officially Republic
of India, federal democracy in southern Asia and a member
of the Commonwealth of Nations. India is bordered on the north
by Afghanistan, Tibet, Nepal, China, and Bhutan; on the south
by the Palk Strait and the Gulf of Mannar, which separate
it from Sri Lanka, and the Indian Ocean; on the west by the
Arabian Sea and Pakistan; on the east by Myanmar (Burma),
the Bay of Bengal and Bangladesh.
Capital - New Delhi
Land area - 3,287,263 sq km (1,269,219 sq
mi)
Hindi is the main language of more than 40 percent of the
population
Population - 1,049,700,118 (July 2003)
Standard Time is 5.5 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT+5.30)
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