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Capital	Delhi
Government	Federal Republic
Currency	Indian Rupee (INR)
Area	total: 3,287,590 km² land: 2,973,190 km² water: 314,400 km²
Population	1,147,995,898 (2008 est.)
Language	Hindi, English and 21 other official languages
Religion	Hindu 81.3%, Muslim 12%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other groups including Buddhist, Jain, Parsi 2.5% (2000)
Electricity	230V/50Hz, Indian (Old British)/European plugs
Calling Code	+91
Internet TLD	.in
Time Zone	UTC+5.5

India (Hindi: भारत) www.incredibleindia.org is the largest country in the Indian Subcontinent and shares borders with Pakistan to the west, China and Nepal to the north, Bhutan to the north-east, and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Indonesia lie to the south-east in the Indian Ocean. It is the seventh largest country in the world by area and, with over a billion people, is second only to China in population. It's an extremely diverse country, with vast differences in geography, climate, culture, language and ethnicity across its expanse, and prides itself on being the largest democracy on Earth.

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India: Introduction is based on work by G. Borchorst, Jani Patokallio, Eco84, Claus Hansen, Burmesedays, Sai.Bhagavatula, Ynayak, Globe-trotter, iGuide, and others. India Travel Guide & India Interactive Map is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0. See background image credits.