The most populous country on Earth, with 22 official languages and over 19,500 spoken mother tongues.
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India
Republic of India
Asia
ยท Southern Asia
0Population
3.29Mkmยฒ of land
$2.1KGDP / person
New DelhiCapital
- ISO codes
- IN ยท IND
- Density
- 416 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Tamil
- Currency
- Indian rupee (INR)
- Dial code
- +91
- Internet domain
- .in
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 22.6870ยฐ N, 79.3580ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Indian
- UN region
- Southern Asia
- Economy
- Emerging region: BRIC
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $2.87T
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 6
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By the numbers
How India stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
2nd
of 242 ยท 17.80% of world population
Land area
8th
of 242 ยท 2.19% of world land
GDP per person
187th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
28th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about India
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 1,366,417,754 people, the 2nd largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 17.8 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 3,287,590 kmยฒ, making it the 8th largest country here - about 6 times the size of France.
Population density is about 416 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is New Delhi, at 28.60ยฐ N, 77.20ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 317,797.
Shares land borders with 6 countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, China and Nepal (and 1 more).
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Kolkata.
The currency is the Indian rupee (INR, symbol โน).
Has 3 official languages: English, Hindi and Tamil.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Kolkata
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UTC+05:30
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
Mumbai
Maharashtra
19.0189ยฐ N, 72.8550ยฐ E
18.98M
2
Delhi
Delhi
28.6719ยฐ N, 77.2281ยฐ E
15.93M
3
Kolkata
West Bengal
22.4969ยฐ N, 88.3227ยฐ E
14.79M
4
Chennai
Tamil Nadu
13.0919ยฐ N, 80.2781ยฐ E
7.16M
5
Bengaluru
Karnataka
12.9719ยฐ N, 77.5581ยฐ E
6.79M
6
Hyderabad
Telangana
17.4019ยฐ N, 78.4780ยฐ E
6.38M
7
Amaravati
Andhra Pradesh
16.5337ยฐ N, 80.5243ยฐ E
5.8M
8
Ahmedabad
Dadra and Nagar Haveli
23.0320ยฐ N, 72.5781ยฐ E
5.38M
9
Pune
Maharashtra
18.5320ยฐ N, 73.8481ยฐ E
4.67M
10
Surat
Dadra and Nagar Haveli
21.2019ยฐ N, 72.8381ยฐ E
3.84M
๐ Peaks
Kangchenjunga
8,586 m
๐งญ Worth the trip
Taj Mahal
Wonder
A mausoleum of white marble that shifts from pink to pearl to gold as the light moves across the day.
Varanasi Ghats
Spiritual
One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities anywhere, where eighty-eight ghats step down into the Ganges.
Land neighbours
6 countries share a border with India.