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  2. Etymology

    According to the Oxford English Dictionary (third edition 2009), the name "India" is derived from the Classical Latin India, a … See more

    India - Wikipedia

    • India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country in the world by area and the most populous country. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh … See more

    CapitalNew Delhi
    Official languagesHindi · English
    GovernmentFederal parliamentary republic
    LegislatureParliament
    Map of India
    History

    By 55,000 years ago, the first modern humans, or Homo sapiens, had arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa, where they had earlier evolved. The earliest known modern human remains in South Asia date t… See more

    Geography

    India accounts for the bulk of the Indian subcontinent, lying atop the Indian tectonic plate, a part of the Indo-Australian Plate. India's defining geological processes began 75 million years ago when the Indian Plate, then part o… See more