
India, officially the Republic of India and also known as Hindustān, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area. It is also the most populated country in the world. It has been the world's largest democracy by number of people since 1947. India is a peninsular country. It has the Indian Ocean to the west, the Arabian Sea in the southwest, the Bay of Bengal in the southeast, and the Himalayas up north.