How Big Is India?

By Staff WriterLast Updated April 03, 2020

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The nation of India contains 1,269,219 square miles within its borders, making it slightly larger than
Alaska, Texas and California, the three largest states in the United States, combined. India is about
one-third the size of the United States.

Despite its relatively small size, India ranks second in the world in population, with fewer people
than only China. At the 2011 census, there were 1,210,193,422 people living in India. This is about
four times the number of people living in the United States. The largest city is Mumbai, once called
Bombay, with a population of 12.5 million people. India is comprised of 28 states, the largest of
which is Uttar Pradesh. If this one state was a nation, it would be the fifth-largest nation in the world
in terms of