India (Listeni/ˈɪndiə/), officially the Republic of India (Bharat Ganrajya)[c], is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country 由 area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded 由 the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the south-west, and the 湾 of Bengal on the south-east, it shares land borders with 巴基斯坦 to the west;[d] China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north-east; and Burma and 孟加拉共和国 to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; in addition,...
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