India
India, the largest country in South Asia, has many of the world's highest mountains, most populated cities, and longest rivers. India's heritage and culture is a rich amalgam of the past and present.Tap on the map to travel |
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Mumbai
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Mumbai, earlier known as Bombay, is the largest city in India and the capital of the state Maharashtra.
Delhi
Delhi is India's capital and seat of government. It forms the National Capital Territory of Delhi, rather than being part of a state.Kolkata
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Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, is the capital and largest city of West Bengal and the cultural capital of India.
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Southern India
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Southern India comprises five major states in peninsular India and two island groups – Lakshadweep in the Arabian Sea off the west coast of India and Andaman and Nicobar in the Bay of Bengal off the east coast.
Western India
Western India comprises three large states, one small state and one small union territory.Plains
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The Plains of India are considered to be the country's heartland.
Eastern India
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From the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal, Eastern India consists of five states: Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Sikkim and West Bengal.
Himalayan North
The Himalayan North region comprises the two states and two union territories of India at the northernmost Himalayan mountains: Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh and Uttarakhand.North-Eastern India
North-Eastern India consists of seven small states that are surrounded by Bhutan, China and Myanmar, and almost cut off from the rest of India by Bangladesh.India
- Type: Country with 1,150,000,000 residents
- Description: country in South Asia
- Languages: English, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Panjabi, Assamese, Santali, Kashmiri, Nepali, Sindhi, Konkani, Dogri, Manipuri, Sanskrit, French and Lushai
- Neighbors: Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka
- Categories: sovereign state, dominion of the British Empire, republic, constitutional republic, democratic republic, federal republic and locality
- Location: South Asia, Asia
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Latitude of centre
21.5° or 21° 30' northLongitude of centre
78.9° or 78° 54' eastPopulation
1,150,000,000Area
3,287,590 km² (1,269,346 miles²)Elevation
686 metres (2,251 feet)Capital
New DelhiCurrency
Rupee (INR)Phone code
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91OpenStreetMap ID
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1269750Wikidata ID
Q668India Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: India
- Abkhazian: Lhend
- Abkhazian: Индиа
- Achinese: India
- Adyghe: Индие
- Afar: Hindistan
- Afar: India
- Afrikaans: Indië
- Akan: India
- Albanian: Indi
- Albanian: India
- Amharic: India
- Amharic: ህንድ
- Amis: India
- Angika: भारत
- Arabic: India
- Arabic: الهند
- Arabic: جمهورية الهند
- Aragonese: India
- Armenian: Հնդկաստան
- Arpitan: Enda
- Arpitan: Ende
- Assamese: ইণ্ডিয়া
- Assamese: ভারত
- Assamese: ভাৰত
- Assamese: ভাৰতবৰ্ষ
- Assamese: হিন্দুস্তান
- Asturian: India
- Atayal: India
- Atikamekw: Inda
- Avaric: Barata
- Avaric: India
- Avaric: Индия
- Avaric: Хиндистан
- Awadhi: भारत
- Aymara: India
- Aymara: Indya
- Azerbaijani: Hindistan
- Balinese: India
- Bambara: India
- Bambara: Ɛndujamana
- Banjar: India
- Bashkir: India
- Bashkir: Һиндостан
- Basque: India
- Bavarian: Indien
- Belarusian: Індыя
- Bengali: আর্যাবর্ত
- Bengali: ইন্ডিয়া
- Bengali: ভারত
- Bengali: ভারত গণরাজ্য
- Bengali: ভারতবর্ষ
- Bengali: ভারতীয় প্রজাতন্ত্র
- Bengali: ভারতীয় রাজ্যসংঘ
- Bengali: রিপাবলিক অফ ইন্ডিয়া
- Bengali: হিন্দুস্তান
- Bhojpuri: इंडिया
- Bhojpuri: भारत
- Bhojpuri: भारत गणराज्य
- Bhojpuri: भारतीय रिपब्लिक
- Bhojpuri: रिपब्लिक ऑफ़ इंडिया
- Bishnupriya: ভারত
- Bislama: India
- Bosnian: Indija
- Brahui: Inđíá
- Breton: India
- Buginese: India
- Buginese: ᨕᨗᨊᨉᨗᨕ
- Bulgarian: Индия
- Burmese: India
- Burmese: အိန္ဒိယ
- Burmese: အိန္ဒိယနိုင်ငံ
- Catalan: República de l'Índia
- Catalan: Índia
- Cebuano: Indiya
- Cebuano: Indya
- Central Bikol: Indya
- Central Kurdish: کۆماری ھیندستان
- Central Kurdish: ھیند
- Central Kurdish: ھیندستان
- Central Okinawan: てぃんじく
- Central Okinawan: 天竺
- Chamorro: India
- Chavacano: India
- Chechen: India
- Chechen: Инди
- Chechen: ХӀинди
- Cherokee: India
- Cherokee: ᎢᏂᏗᎢᎠ
- Cherokee: ᎢᏅᏗᎾ
- Cheyenne: India
- Chinese: Yìndù
- Chinese: Ìn-tō͘
- Chinese: 印
- Chinese: 印度
- Chinese: 印度共和国
- Chinese: 印度共和國
- Chinese: 天竺
- Choctaw: India
- Church Slavic: Їндїꙗ
- Chuvash: Инди
- Cornish: Eynda
- Corsican: India
- Corsican: Republica di l'India
- Corsican: Ripublica di l'India
- Cree: India
- Cree: ᙜᓃ
- Creek: India
- Crimean Tatar: İndistan
- Croatian: Indija
- Czech: Indická republika
- Czech: Indie
- Dagbani: India
- Danish: Indien
- Dhivehi: ހިންދުސްތާން
- Dhivehi: އިންޑިޔާ
- Dimli (individual language): Hindıstan
- Dinka: Indiɛn
- Dotyali: भारत
- Dutch: Bharat
- Dutch: Bharatvarsh
- Dutch: Hindustan
- Dutch: IN
- Dutch: IND
- Dutch: India
- Dutch: Republiek India
- Dzongkha: India
- Dzongkha: རྒྱ་གར
- Dzongkha: རྒྱ་གར་
- Eastern Mari: Индий
- Egyptian Arabic: الهند
- English: Bharat
- English: Bharat Ganarajya
- English: Bharata
- English: Bharatvarsh
- English: Hindoostan
- English: Hindustan
- English: IN
- English: IND
- English: Indostan
- English: Republic of India
- Erzya: Индия Мастор
- Esperanto: Barato
- Esperanto: Bharato
- Esperanto: Hinda Unio
- Esperanto: Hindio
- Esperanto: Hindujo
- Esperanto: IND
- Estonian: India
- Estonian: India Vabariik
- Ewe: India
- Ewe: India nutome
- Extremaduran: La Índia
- Faroese: India
- Fiji Hindi: India
- Fijian: Idia
- Fijian: India
- Finnish: Intia
- Finnish: Intian tasavalta
- French: Bharat
- French: Bharatvarsh
- French: Hindustan
- French: IN
- French: Inde
- French: Indostan
- French: République d'Inde
- French: République de l'Inde
- Friulian: Indie
- Fulah: Enndo
- Fulah: Hinndi
- Gagauz: İndiya
- Galician: A India
- Galician: India - भारत
- Galician: India
- Galician: República da India
- Galician: هند
- Gan Chinese: 印度
- Ganda: Buyindi
- Ganda: India
- Georgian: ინდოეთი
- German: IND
- German: Indien
- German: in
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: India
- Gilaki: هند
- Goan Konkani: Bharot
- Goan Konkani: Dn/भारत
- Goan Konkani: भारत
- Gothic: 𐌹𐌽𐌳𐌹𐌰/India
- Gothic: 𐌹𐌽𐌳𐌹𐌰
- Greek: Αρυαβάρτ
- Greek: Δημοκρατία της Ινδίας
- Greek: Ινδία
- Greek: Ινδοστάν
- Greek: Μπχαράτ
- Greek: Μπχαράτβαρς
- Greek: Τζαμπούντβιπ
- Greek: Χιντουστάν
- Guarani: India
- Guarani: Índia
- Guianese Creole French: End
- Gujarati: ઇન્ડિયા
- Gujarati: ભારત
- Gujarati: ભારત પ્રજાસત્તાક
- Gujarati: ભારત વર્ષ
- Gujarati: હિંદુસ્તાન
- Haitian: End
- Haitian: Repiblik End
- Hakka Chinese: Yin-thu
- Hausa: India
- Hausa: Indiya
- Hausa: Yin-thu
- Hausa: ʻĪnia
- Hawaiian: ʻInia
- Hawaiian: ‘Īnia
- Hebrew: הודו
- Herero: India
- Hindi: आर्यवर्त
- Hindi: इंडिया
- Hindi: इण्डिया
- Hindi: भारत
- Hindi: भारत गणराज्य
- Hindi: भारतवर्ष
- Hindi: हिंदुस्तान
- Hindi: हिन्दुस्तान
- Hindi: हिन्दोस्तान
- Hiri Motu: India
- Hungarian: India
- Hungarian: Indiai Köztársaság
- Icelandic: Indland
- Ido: India
- Igbo: India
- Igbo: Ndia
- Iloko: India
- Inari Sami: India
- Inari Sami: India täsiväldi
- Indonesian: Hindustan
- Indonesian: IN
- Indonesian: IND
- Indonesian: India
- Indonesian: Republik India
- Ingush: ХIиндиче
- Interlingua: India
- Interlingue: India
- Inuktitut: ᐃᓐᑎᐊ
- Inupiaq: India
- Irish: An India
- Irish: an India
- Italian: India
- Italian: Repubblica dell'India
- Jamaican Creole English: India
- Japanese: インド
- Japanese: インド共和国
- Japanese: ブハラトゥ
- Japanese: 印
- Japanese: 印度
- Javanese: Indhi
- Javanese: Indhia
- Javanese: India
- Kabardian: Индиэ
- Kabiyè: Ɛɛndɩ
- Kabuverdianu: Índia
- Kabyle: Lhend
- Kalaallisut: India
- Kalmyk: India
- Kalmyk: Индия
- Kalmyk: Энедигин Орн
- Kannada: ಭಾರತ
- Kannada: ಭಾರತವರ್ಷ
- Kannada: ಹಿಂದುಸ್ತಾನ
- Kara-Kalpak: Hindistan
- Karachay-Balkar: Индия
- Kashmiri: انڈیا
- Kashmiri: اِنڈِیا
- Kashmiri: بَھارَت
- Kashmiri: بھارَت
- Kashmiri: ہِندوستان
- Kashubian: Indie
- Kazakh: Индия
- Kazakh: Үндістан
- Khmer: ឥណ្ឌា
- Kikuyu: India
- Kinyarwanda: Ubuhinde
- Kirghiz: India
- Kirghiz: Индия
- Komi: India
- Komi: Индия
- Kongo: India
- Korean: 인도
- Korean: 인도 공화국
- Korean: 인디아
- Kotava: Barata
- Kuanyama: India
- Kurdish: Hindistan
- Kurdish: ھیندستان
- Kölsch: Inndije
- Ladin: India
- Ladino: India
- Lak: Гьиндусттан
- Lao: India
- Lao: ປະເທດອິນເດຍ
- Lao: ອິນເດຍ
- Latgalian: Iņdeja
- Latin: India
- Latvian: Indija
- Lezghian: Гьиндистан
- Lezghian: Индия
- Ligurian: India
- Limburgan: India
- Lingala: India
- Lingala: Índɛ
- Lingua Franca Nova: Barat
- Lingua Franca Nova: India
- Literary Chinese: 印
- Literary Chinese: 印度
- Literary Chinese: 印度共和國
- Literary Chinese: 天竺
- Literary Chinese: 身毒
- Lithuanian: Indija
- Livvi: Indii
- Lojban: xingu'e
- Lombard: India
- Low German: India
- Low German: Indien
- Lower Sorbian: Indiska
- Luba-Katanga: Inde
- Luxembourgish: Indien
- Macedo-Romanian: India
- Macedonian: Индија
- Madurese: India
- Magahi: आर्यवर्त
- Magahi: इण्डिया
- Magahi: भारत
- Magahi: भारत गनराज्ज
- Magahi: भारतवर्ष
- Magahi: हिन्दुस्तान
- Magahi: हिन्दुस्थान
- Maithili: भारत
- Malagasy: India
- Malagasy: Indy
- Malay: Hindia
- Malay: India
- Malay: اينديا
- Malay: ريڤوبليک اينديا
- Malayalam: ഇന്ത്യ
- Malayalam: ഭാരതം
- Malayalam: ഹിന്ദുസ്ഥാൻ
- Maltese: Indja
- Maltese: Repubblika tal-Indja
- Maltese: l-Indja
- Manipuri: ꯏꯟꯗꯤꯌꯥ
- Manx: Yn Injey
- Maori: Inia
- Maori: Īnia
- Marathi: भरतवर्ष
- Marathi: भारत
- Marshallese: India
- Mazanderani: هند
- Min Dong Chinese: Éng-dô
- Min Nan Chinese: Ìn-tō͘
- Minangkabau: India
- Mingrelian: ინდოეთი
- Mirandese: Índia
- Moksha: Индия
- Moksha: Индия мастор
- Moksha: Республикась Индия
- Mongolian: Энэтхэг
- Mongolian: ꯏꯟꯗꯤꯌꯥ
- Moroccan Arabic: جمهورية لهيند
- Moroccan Arabic: لهند
- Moroccan Arabic: لهيند
- Mossi: India
- Narom: Înde
- Nauru: India
- Nauru: Indjiya
- Navajo: India
- Navajo: Tó Wónaanídę́ę́ʼ Bitsįʼ Yishtłizhii Bikéyah
- Ndonga: India
- Neapolitan: Innia
- Nepali: भारत
- Newari: भारत
- North Ndebele: Indiya
- Northern Frisian: Indien
- Northern Luri: هئن
- Northern Sami: India
- Northern Sami: India dásseváldi
- Norwegian: India
- Norwegian Bokmål: India
- Norwegian Bokmål: Republikken India
- Norwegian Nynorsk: India
- Novial: India
- Nyanja: India
- Occitan (post 1500): Republica de l'Índia
- Occitan (post 1500): Índia
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): India
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܗܢܕܘ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Indea
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): India
- Oriya: ଇଣ୍ଡିଆ
- Oriya: ଭାରତ
- Oriya: ଭାରତବର୍ଷ
- Oriya: ହିନ୍ଦୁସ୍ଥାନ
- Oromo: India
- Oromo: Indiyaa
- Ossetian: Инди
- Pa'o Karen: အေင်ဒိယခမ်းထီ
- Pali: भारत
- Pampanga: India
- Panjabi: ਭਾਰਤ
- Papiamento: India
- Pedi: India
- Pennsylvania German: India
- Persian: هند
- Persian: هندوستان
- Picard: Inde
- Piemontese: India
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Endya
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: India
- Polish: Indie
- Portuguese: Índia
- Pushto: هند
- Pwo Eastern Karen: အေန်ဍီးယးခါန်ႋ
- Quechua: Barat
- Quechua: India
- Quechua: Indiya
- Quechua: Indya
- Quechua: Inriya
- Romanian: IND
- Romanian: India
- Romanian: Republica India
- Romanian: Индия
- Romanian: Энэтхэг
- Romansh: India
- Rundi: India
- Rundi: Ubuhindi
- Russia Buriat: Энэдхэг
- Russian: Бхарат
- Russian: Индия
- Russian: Республика Индия
- Rusyn: Індія
- Sakizaya: India
- Samoan: Igitia
- Samoan: India
- Samogitian: Indėjė
- Sango: India
- Sango: Indïi
- Sango: Ênnde
- Sanskrit: भारत
- Sanskrit: भारतः
- Sanskrit: भारतगणराज्यम्
- Sanskrit: भारतम्
- Sanskrit: भारतवर्षम्
- Sanskrit: हिन्दुस्थानम्
- Santali: ᱤᱱᱰᱤᱭᱟ
- Santali: ᱥᱤᱧᱚᱛ
- Santali: ᱥᱤᱧᱚᱛ ᱨᱮᱱᱟᱜ ᱟᱹᱯᱱᱟᱹᱛ
- Santali: ᱵᱷᱟᱨᱚᱛ
- Saraiki: بھارت
- Sardinian: Ìndia
- Saterfriesisch: Indien
- Scots: Indie
- Scots: Republic o Indie
- Scottish Gaelic: Na h-Innseachan
- Serbian: Indija
- Serbian: Индија
- Serbo-Croatian: Indija
- Shan: မိူင်းဢိၼ်းတီးယႃး
- Shan: ဢိၼ်ႇတိယ
- Shona: India
- Sichuan Yi: ꑴꄗ
- Sicilian: Innia
- Silesian: Indyje
- Sindhi: India
- Sindhi: جمھوريہ ڀارت
- Sindhi: ڀارت
- Sindhi: ھندستان
- Sinhala: ඉන්දියාව
- Sinhala: භාරත ජනරජය
- Skolt Sami: Intia
- Skolt Sami: Intia tääʹssväʹldd
- Slovak: India
- Slovak: Indická republika
- Slovenian: Indija
- Somali: Hindiya
- South Azerbaijani: هیندوستان
- South Azerbaijani: هیندیستان
- Southern Dagaare: India
- Southern Sotho: India
- Spanish: India
- Spanish: La India
- Spanish: Republica de la India
- Spanish: República de la India
- Spanish: Unión India
- Sranan Tongo: Indiakondre
- Sundanese: India
- Swahili: India
- Swahili: Uhindi
- Swati: INdiya
- Swati: India
- Swedish: Indien
- Swedish: Republiken Indien
- Swiss German: Indie
- Sylheti: ꠄꠘ꠆ꠒꠤꠀ
- Sylheti: ꠜꠣꠞꠔ
- Tagalog: India
- Tagalog: Indiya
- Tahitian: ’Inītia
- Tajik: Ҳинд
- Tajik: Ҳиндустон
- Talysh: Hindistan
- Tamil: இண்டியா
- Tamil: இந்திய
- Tamil: இந்திய ஒன்றியம்
- Tamil: இந்தியக் குடியரசு
- Tamil: இந்தியா
- Tamil: நாவலந்தீவு
- Tamil: பாரதம்
- Taroko: India
- Tatar: Hindstan
- Tatar: Hindstan Cömhüriäte
- Tatar: Hindstan respublikası
- Tatar: Индия
- Tatar: Һиндстан
- Tatar: Һиндстан республикасы
- Tatar: Һиндстан Җөмһүрияте
- Telugu: ఇండియా
- Telugu: భారతదేశం
- Telugu: భారత దేశము
- Telugu: భారత్
- Telugu: హిందూస్థాన్
- Tetum: Índia
- Thai: ประเทศอินเดีย
- Thai: อินเดีย
- Tibetan: India
- Tibetan: རྒྱ་གར་
- Tibetan: རྒྱ་གར།
- Tigrinya: IN
- Tigrinya: IND
- Tigrinya: India
- Tigrinya: ህንዲ
- Tigrinya: ሪፓብሊክ ህንዲ
- Tok Pisin: India
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): ʻInitia
- Tosk Albanian: Indien
- Tsonga: India
- Tsonga: Indiya
- Tulu: ಇಂಡಿಯೊ
- Tulu: ಬಾರತವರ್ಸೊ
- Tulu: ಬಾರತೊ
- Tulu: ಭಾರತ
- Tulu: ಹಿಂದುಸ್ತಾನೊ
- Tumbuka: India
- Tunisian Arabic: الهند
- Turkish: Bharat
- Turkish: Bharat Ganarajya
- Turkish: Hindistan
- Turkish: Hindistan Cumhuriyeti
- Turkish: IND
- Turkmen: Hindistan
- Twi: India
- Tyap: Bharat
- Tyap: Hindustan
- Tyap: IND
- Tyap: Ndiya
- Tyap: Ri̱pobi̱lik Ndiya
- Udmurt: Индия
- Uighur: Hindistan
- Uighur: ھىندىستان
- Ukrainian: Індія
- Ukrainian: Бгарат
- Ukrainian: Республіка Індія
- Upper Sorbian: Indiska
- Urdu: انڈیا
- Urdu: بھارت
- Urdu: جمہوریہ ہند
- Urdu: جمہوریہ ہندوستان
- Urdu: ہند
- Urdu: ہندوستان
- Uzbek: Hindiston
- Uzbek: Ҳиндистон
- Venda: India
- Venetian: India
- Venetian: Ìndia
- Veps: Bharat
- Veps: Indii
- Veps: Indijan Tazovaldkund
- Vietnamese: Bharat
- Vietnamese: Cộng hòa Ấn Độ
- Vietnamese: Ấn Độ
- Vlaams: Indië
- Vlax Romani: Bharat
- Vlax Romani: Indiya
- Volapük: India
- Volapük: Lindän
- Võro: India
- Walloon: Inde
- Waray (Philippines): India
- Waray (Philippines): Indya
- Welsh: India
- Western Armenian: Հնդկաստան
- Western Balochi: هندوستان
- Western Frisian: India
- Western Frisian: Yndia
- Western Panjabi: انڈیا
- Western Panjabi: بھارت
- Western Panjabi: بھارت گنراج
- Western Panjabi: ہند
- Western Panjabi: ہندستان
- Western Panjabi: ہندوستان
- Wolof: End
- Wolof: India
- Wu Chinese: 印
- Wu Chinese: 印度
- Wu Chinese: 印度共和国
- Wu Chinese: 天竺
- Xhosa: IIndia
- Xhosa: India
- Yakut: Ииндийэ
- Yakut: Индия
- Yiddish: אינדיע
- Yoruba: India
- Yoruba: Orílẹ́ède India
- Yoruba: Índíà
- Yue Chinese: 印
- Yue Chinese: 印度
- Yue Chinese: 印度共和國
- Yue Chinese: 天竺
- Yue Chinese: 身毒
- Zeeuws: India
- Zhuang: India
- Zhuang: Yindu
- Zulu: INdiya
- Zulu: India
- Zulu: i-India
- Indiyān
- Initiaq
- ma Palata
- Ɛndɩ
- ХӀиндиче
- भारत गणराज्य - Republic of India
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