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Countries in South Asia

Bangladesh | Bhutan | India | Maldives | Nepal | Pakistan | Sri Lanka This is an alphabetical list of the sovereign states of the world, including both de jure and de facto independent states. ... Map of South Asia. ...

References

  1. ^  India facts and figures, Embassy of India
  2. ^  Forex reserves up by $1bn, The Economic Times, 2005-04-30
  3. ^  India Economy, Travel Document Systems
  4. ^  Services, India in Business
  5. ^  Destination India: An Unpolished Diamond, Times of India Foundation, Vivek Nair
  6. ^  US, UAE, UK, China, Japan among India's top trade partners, The Indian Express, 2005-01-02
  7. ^  CIA Factbook : India
  8. ^  Provisional Population Totals 2001 Census, Census of India (Official site)
  9. ^  Debating India – India's literacy rate, Debating India
  10. ^  India, Index mundi – country profiles
  11. ^  Census of India 2001, Data on Religion, Census of India (Official site)
  12. ^  Languages of India, India image
  13. ^  Manorama Year Book 2003 – pg 524 – ISBN 81-900461-8-7

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Footnotes

  • 1. The Government of India considers the entire state of Jammu and Kashmir to be a part of India. This state borders a part of Afghanistan. A ceasefire sponsored by the United Nations in 1948 freezes the positions of Indian and Pakistani held territory. As a consequence, the region bordering Afghanistan is in Pakistani-administered territory.
  • 2. The black line is the boundary as recognised by the government of India. The northern region of Kashmir is currently administered by India, Pakistan, and China (and coloured in as such). The delimiting of the three administered regions is not the international boundary but a ceasefire line demarcated in red. The boundary separating India and Pakistan is known as the Line of Control, that separating India and China as the 'Line of Actual Control'. Most of the state of Arunachal Pradesh is also claimed by China.

India is also the letter I in the NATO phonetic alphabet. The dark-brown region represents the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir is the northern-most province of the Republic of India, with Srinagar as its capital and Jammu as its winter-capital. ... The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945 and now made up of 191 states. ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Shown in green is the Kashmiri region under Pakistani control. ... The line of control (LOC) is a line which demarcates the boundary between the territories controlled by two militaries or political entities, e. ... Line of Actual Control is the current border dividing Indian and Chinese occupied territory on the western part of India after the 1962 Sino-Indian War. ... I is the 9th letter in the Latin alphabet. ... The NATO phonetic alphabet is a common name for the radiotelephony spelling alphabet of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which assigned words to the letters of the English alphabet so that critical combinations of letters could be pronounced and understood by aircrew and air traffic controllers regardless of their...


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Peninsula with its sprout thrust into the sea, rest mostly on a limestone coral bed, that span the entire region, and over-topped with sand brought down by the tidal waves from the adjacent coast.
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