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= Location = India is located in Southern Asia. It borders the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. It is between Burma and Pakistan.

= Population = 1,173,108,018 people live in India.

= Flag =



India's flag has 3 horizontal bands of saffron, white, and green, with a blue chakra centered in the white band. The saffron represents courage, sacrifice, and the spirit of renunciation. White signifies purity and truth. Green stands for faith and fertility. The blue chakra symbolizes the wheel of life in movement and death in stagnation.

= Language = 41% speak Hindi 8.1% speak Bengali 7.2% speak Telugu 7% speak Marathi 5.9% speak Tamil 5% speak Urdu 4.5% speak Gujarati 3.7% speak Kannada 3.2% speak Malayalam 3.2% speak Oriya 2.8% speak Punjabi 1.3% speak Assamese 1.2% speak Maithili 5.9% speak other

Hindi is the most widely spoken language with English being the subsidiary official language.

= Major Exports = cotton, textiles, jute goods, tea coffee, cocoa products, rice, wheat, pickles, mango pulp, juices, james, preserved vegetables, etc.

Information found on this page is from: [|The CIA World Fact Book] Pictures are found from: [|Google Images]