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Capital	New 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) 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.