India

India, officially the Republic of India is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the south-west, and the Bay of Bengal on the south-east, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north-east; and Burma and Bangladesh to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; in addition, India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.

Capital	New Delhi
Official language(s)	Hindi, English
Recognized regional languages	Eighth Schedule
National language(s)	Hindi
Government	Federal parliamentary constitutional republic
President	Pratibha Patil
Vice President	Mohammad Hamid Ansari
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh (INC)
Speaker of the House	Meira Kumar (INC)
Chief Justice	S. H. Kapadia
Legislature	Parliament of India
Upper house	Rajya Sabha
Lower house	Lok Sabha
Independence	from the United Kingdom
Declared	15 August 1947
Republic	26 January 1950
Currency	Indian rupee () (INR)
Time zone	IST (UTC+05:30)
(Population) :2011 census	1,210,193,422[4] (2nd)
Density	369.1/km2 (31st) 956/sq mi