The Republic of India (भभभभ भभभभभभभ) is a country in Asia.

It has an area of 3,287,263

square kilometres (1,269,219 sq mi). It is at the center of South Asia. India has more than 1.2
billion (1,210,000,000) people, which is the second largest population in the world.[18] It is the
seventh largest country in the world by area and the largest country in South Asia. It is also the
most populous democracy in the world.[19][20][21]

India has seven neighbours: Pakistan in the north-west, China and Nepal in the north, Bhutan and
Bangladesh in the north-east, Myanmar in the east and Sri Lanka, an island, in the south.

The capital of India is New Delhi. India is a peninsula, bound by the Indian Ocean in the south, the
Arabian Sea on the west and Bay of Bengal in the east. The coastline of India is of about 7,517 km
(4,671 mi) long.[22] India has the third largest military force in the world and is also a nuclear
weapon state.

The first occurrence of the term Indian English dates from 1696,[24] though the term did not
become common until the 19th century. In the colonial era the most common terms in use
were Anglo-Indian English, or simply Anglo-Indian, both dating from 1860. Other less common
terms in use were Indo-Anglian (dating from 1897) and Indo-English (1912).[25]An item of Anglo-
Indian English was known as an Anglo-Indianism from 1851.[26]
In the modern era, a range of colloquial portmanteau words for Indian English have been used.
The earliest of these is Indlish (recorded from 1962), and others
include Indiglish(1974), Indenglish (1979), Indglish (1984), Indish (1984), Inglish (1985)
and Indianlish (2007).[27]

India's national flag is a horizontal tri-color of deep saffron at the top, white in
the middle and dark green at the bottom in equal proportion. In the center of
the white band is a wheel, which appears on the abacus of the Sarnath Lion seal
of Asoka.