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Area > Comparative slightly more than one-third the size of the US
Area > Land	2,973,190 sq km		[8th of 238]
Area > Total	3,287,590 sq km		[14th of 250]
Capital city with population	New Delhi - 294,149
Climate varies from tropical monsoon in south to temperate in north
Forested Land	21.6%		[114th of 193]
Geographic coordinates	20 00 N, 77 00 E
Land boundaries > Border countries Bangladesh 4,053 km, Bhutan 605 km, Burma 1,463 km, China 3,380 km, Nepal 1,690 km, Pakistan 2,912 km
Land use > Arable land	48.83%		[7th of 258]
Largest city	Bombay
Largest city population	15,138,000		[5th of 174]
Largest city with population	Mumbai - 11,914,398
Location Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and Pakistan
Map references Asia
Natural resources coal (fourth-largest reserves in the world), iron ore, manganese, mica, bauxite, titanium ore, chromite, natural gas, diamonds, petroleum, limestone, arable land
Population density	336.62 people per sqkm		[32nd of 256]
Population density > people per sq. km	368.15 people/m²		[18th of 204]
Precipitation	2,168 mm		[9th of 95]
Surface area > sq. km	3,287,260 km²		[7th of 206]
tallest mountains > Mountain	Kanchenjunga

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