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[{$pagename}], officially the Republic of [{$pagename}] (Bhārat Gaṇarājya), is a [country] in [South Asia]. 

[{$pagename}] is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country (with over 1.2 billion people), and the most populous [democracy] in the world.

[{$pagename}] is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast. 

[{$pagename}] shares land borders with [Pakistan] to the west; [China], [Nepal], and [Bhutan] to the northeast; and [Myanmar] ([Burma]) and [Bangladesh] to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of [Sri Lanka] and the [Maldives]. India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with [Thailand] and [Indonesia].

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