India

India, officially the Republic of India (Bhārat Gaṇarājya), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country (with over 1.2 billion people), and the most populous democracy in the world. It is 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 northeast; and Myanmar (Burma) and Bangladesh to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives. India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.
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=== States[edit] ===
State 	Capital 	Largest city 	Population 	Area
(km2)	Official
languages 	Uttar Pradesh	Lucknow	199,812,341	243,286
Maharashtra 	Mumbai (Summer)
Nagpur (Winter)	Mumbai 	112,374,333	307,713	Marathi 	 	 	 	
Bihar 	Patna 	Patna 	104,099,452	94,163 	Hindi 	 	 	 	
West Bengal 	Kolkata 	Kolkata 	91,276,115 	88,752 	Bengali, Nepali 	 	 	 	
Madhya Pradesh 	Bhopal 	Indore 	72,626,809 	308,252	Hindi 	 	 	 	
Tamil Nadu 	Chennai 	Chennai 	72,147,030 	130,058	Tamil 	 	 	 	
Rajasthan 	Jaipur 	Jaipur 	68,548,437 	342,269	Hindi 	 	 	 	
Karnataka 	Bengaluru 	Bengaluru 	61,095,297 	191,791	Kannada 	 	 	 	
Gujarat 	Gandhinagar 	Ahmedabad 	60,439,692 	196,024	Gujarati 	 	 	 	
Andhra Pradesh 	Hyderabad (de jure)
Amaravati (de facto)	Visakhapatnam	49,506,799 	160,205	Telugu 	 	 	 	
Odisha 	Bhubaneswar 	Bhubaneswar 	41,974,218 	155,820	Odia 	 	 	 	
Telangana 	Hyderabad 	Hyderabad 	35,193,978 	114,840	Telugu, Urdu 	 	 	 	
Kerala 	Thiruvananthapuram	Kochi 	33,406,061 	38,863 	Malayalam 	 	 	 	
Jharkhand 	Ranchi 	Jamshedpur 	32,988,134 	74,677 	Hindi 	 	 	 	
Assam 	Dispur 	Guwahati 	31,205,576 	78,550 	Assamese 	 	 	 	
Punjab 	Chandigarh 	Ludhiana 	27,743,338 	50,362 	Punjabi 	 	 	 	
Chhattisgarh 	Atal Nagar 	Raipur 	25,545,198 	135,194	Hindi 	 	 	 	
Haryana 	Chandigarh 	Faridabad 	25,351,462 	44,212 	Hindi 	 	 	 	
Jammu and Kashmir	Srinagar (Summer)
Jammu (Winter)	Srinagar 	12,541,302 	222,236 
101,387	Urdu 	 	 	 	
Uttarakhand 	Dehradun 	Dehradun 	10,086,292 	53,483 	Hindi 	 	 	 	
Himachal Pradesh 	Shimla (Summer)
Dharamshala (Winter)	Shimla 	6,864,602 	55,673 	Hindi 	 	 	 	
Tripura 	Agartala 	Agartala 	3,673,917 	10,492 	Bengali, Kokborok, English	 	 	 	
Meghalaya 	Shillong 	Shillong 	2,966,889 	22,720 	English 	 	 	 	
Manipur 	Imphal 	Imphal 	2,855,794 	22,347 	Meitei 	 	 	 	
Nagaland 	Kohima 	Dimapur 	1,978,502 	16,579 	English 	 	 	 	
Goa 	Panaji 	Vasco da Gama	1,458,545 	3,702 	Konkani 	 	 	 	
Arunachal Pradesh	Itanagar 	Itanagar 	1,383,727 	83,743 	English 	 	 	 	
Mizoram 	Aizawl 	Aizawl 	1,097,206 	21,081 	English, Hindi, Mizo 	 	 	 	
Sikkim 	Gangtok 	Gangtok 	610,577