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India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the world's seventh-largest country by area and its most populous. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west, China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north, and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is near Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa by 55,000 years ago. Settled life emerged in the western margins of the Indus river basin 9,000 years ago, evolving into the Indus Valley Civilisation of the third millennium BCE. By 1200 BCE, an archaic form of Sanskrit, an Indo-European language, diffused into India from the northwest, its earliest hymns containing elements of what would become Hinduism. The pre-existing Dravidian…

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FCDO travel advice for India. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.

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Official source: UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

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India

Capital: New Delhi
Language: Hindi
Currency: Indian rupee
Time zone: Indian Standard Time
Calling code: +91
Internet domain: .in
Driving side: left
Plug type: Europlug
Voltage: 230

Source: Wikidata.

CapitalNew Delhi

Population1,352,617,328

CurrencyINR

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◎Mumbai12,691,836 residents ◎Delhi11,034,555 residents ◎Bengaluru8,495,492 residents ◎Hyderabad6,993,262 residents ◎Ahmedabad6,357,693 residents ◎Chennai4,681,087 residents ◎Kolkata4,631,392 residents ◎Surat4,591,246 residents ◎Pune3,124,458 residents ◎Jaipur3,046,163 residents ◎Kanpur2,823,249 residents ◎Navi Mumbai2,600,000 residents ◎Lucknow2,472,011 residents ◎Nagpur2,405,665 residents ◎Coimbatore2,136,916 residents ◎Indore1,994,397 residents ◎Thāne1,841,488 residents ◎Vadodara1,822,221 residents ◎Bhopal1,798,218 residents ◎Rasapūdipalem1,728,128 residents ◎Pimpri-Chinchwad1,727,692 residents ◎Patna1,684,297 residents ◎Kallakurichi1,682,687 residents ◎Ludhiana1,618,879 residents ◎Nashik1,486,053 residents ◎Madurai1,465,625 residents ◎Tirunelveli1,435,844 residents ◎Agra1,430,055 residents ◎Faridabad1,414,050 residents ◎Rājkot1,390,640 residents ◎Najafgarh1,365,000 residents ◎Jamshedpur1,339,438 residents ◎Pimpri1,284,606 residents ◎Kalyān1,262,255 residents ◎Dombivali1,247,327 residents ◎Meerut1,223,184 residents ◎Virār1,222,390 residents ◎Nowrangapur1,220,946 residents ◎Srinagar1,206,419 residents ◎Ghāziābād1,199,191 residents ◎Dhanbad1,196,214 residents ◎Aurangabad1,175,116 residents ◎Varanasi1,164,404 residents ◎Amritsar1,159,227 residents ◎Vijayawada1,143,232 residents ◎Ranchi1,120,374 residents ◎Jabalpur1,081,677 residents ◎Prayagraj1,073,438 residents ◎Visakhapatnam1,063,178 residents ◎Jodhpur1,056,191 residents ◎Gwalior1,054,420 residents ◎Teni1,034,724 residents ◎Howrah1,027,672 residents ◎Raipur1,027,264 residents ◎Tiruchirappalli1,022,518 residents ◎Kota1,001,694 residents ◎Shivaji Nagar1,000,000 residents ◎Sholapur997,281 residents ◎Chandigarh970,602 residents ◎Tiruppur963,173 residents ◎Guwahati962,334 residents ◎Hubballi943,788 residents ◎Mysuru920,550 residents ◎Salem917,414 residents ◎Gurugram886,519 residents ◎Bhubaneswar885,363 residents ◎Bhiwandi874,032 residents ◎Jalandhar868,929 residents ◎Rohini860,000 residents ◎Kanayannur851,406 residents ◎Bhayandar809,378 residents ◎Narela800,000 residents ◎Thiruvananthapuram788,271 residents ◎Alīgarh753,207 residents ◎Bareilly745,435 residents ◎Morādābād721,139 residents ◎Warangal704,570 residents ◎Dhārāvi700,000 residents ◎Gorakhpur674,246 residents ◎Guntur670,073 residents ◎Puducherry657,209 residents ◎Jājmau652,831 residents ◎Amravati647,057 residents ◎Bikaner644,406 residents ◎Kochi633,553 residents ◎Bhilai627,734 residents ◎Cuttack610,189 residents ◎Borivli609,617 residents ◎Bhavnagar605,882 residents ◎Sāngli601,214 residents ◎Jamnagar600,943 residents ◎Jammu576,198 residents ◎Bokāro564,319 residents ◎Nanded550,564 residents ◎Kozhikode550,440 residents ◎Kolhāpur549,236 residents ◎Nellore547,621 residents ◎Kalaburagi543,147 residents ◎Ajmer542,321 residents ◎Dehradun522,081 residents

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