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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, comprising, with Pakistan
and Bangladesh, the subcontinent of India. India is the seventh-largest
country in the world and the second most populous, after China.
Maharashtra, state in western India,
bordered on the northwest by Gujarat state; on the north by
Madhya Pradesh state; on the east by Chhattisgarh state; on
the south by Andhra Pradesh state, Karnataka state, and Goa
state; and on the west
Capital city - Mumbai
Area - 118,800 square miles (307,690 square
km)
Population - (1991) 78,937,187
Time Zone - 5.5 hours ahead of Greenwich
Mean Time (+5.5 GMT)

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