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4400 India
| The Republic of
India (Hindi: भारत गणराज्य Bhārat Gaṇarājya), commonly known as India,
is a sovereign country in South Asia with minor overlap into Southeast
Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second
most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world.
India has a coastline of over seven thousand kilometres, bounded by the
Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of
Bengal on the east. India borders Pakistan to the west;[1] China, Nepal,
and Bhutan to the north-east; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In
the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka, Maldives and
Indonesia. Home to the Indus Valley civilization and a region of historic trade routes and vast empires, the Indian subcontinent was identified with its commercial and cultural wealth for much of its long history. Four major world religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism originated there, while Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Zoroastrianism arrived in the first millennium CE and shaped India's variegated culture. Gradually annexed by the British East India Company from the early eighteenth century and colonised by Great Britain from the mid-nineteenth century, India became a modern nation-state in 1947 after a struggle for independence marked by widespread use of nonviolent resistance as a means of social protest. |
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