India Country In Asia

India officially the Republic of India is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-most sizably voluminous country by area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the south-west, and the Bay of Bengal on the south-east, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north-east; and Burma (Myanmar) and Bangladesh to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; in integration, India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.

India is a prodigious South Asian country with diverse terrain – from Himalayan peaks to Indian Ocean coastline – and history reaching back 5 millennia. In the north, Mughal Imperium landmarks include Delhi’s Red Fort involute, massive Jama Masjid mosque and Agra’s iconic Taj Mahal mausoleum.

The Indian economy is the world's Seventh-most sizably voluminous by nominal GDP and third-most astronomically immense by purchasing power parity (PPP). Following market-predicated economic reforms in 1991, India became one of the most expeditious-growing major economies; it is considered an incipiently industrialised country. However, it perpetuates to face the challenges of penuriousness, corruption, malnutrition, inadequate public healthcare, and terrorism. A nuclear weapons state and a regional puissance, it has the third-most immensely colossal standing army in the world and ranks ninth in military expenditure among nations. India is a federal constitutional republic governed under a parliamentary system consisting of 29 states and 7 coalescence territories. India is a pluralistic, multilingual, and a multi-ethnic society. It is withal home to a diversity of wildlife in a variety of bulwarked habitats.

The earliest authenticated human remains in South Asia date to about 30,000 years ago. Proximately contemporaneous Mesolithic rock art sites have been found in many components of the Indian subcontinent, including at the Bhimbetka rock shelters in Madhya Pradesh. Around 7000 BCE, the first kenned Neolithic settlements appeared on the subcontinent in Mehrgarh and other sites in western Pakistan. These gradually developed into the Indus Valley Civilisation, the first urban culture in South Asia; It flourished during 2600–1900 BCE in Pakistan and western India. Centred on cities such as Mohenjo-daro, Harappa, Dholavira, and Kalibangan, and relying on varied forms of subsistence, the civilisation engaged robustly in crafts engenderment and wide-ranging trade.