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'''India''' (Hindi: Bhārat), officially the Republic of India (Hindi: Bhārat Gaṇarājya) is a country in South Asia. It is the second-largest country in population and the seventh-largest country by land area. It is also the most populous democracy in the world, bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast. It has seven neighbours: Pakistan in the northwest, China, Nepal and Bhutan in the north, Bangladesh and Myanmar in the east and Sri Lanka in the south.

The capital of India is New Delhi. India is a peninsula, bound by the Indian Ocean in the south, the Arabian Sea on the west and the Bay of Bengal in the east. The coastline of India is about 7,517 km (4,671 mi) long. India has the third-largest military force in the world and is also a nuclear weapon state. India's economy became the world's fastest-growing in the G20 developing nations in the last quarter of 2014, replacing the People's Republic of China. 
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