India is the seventh largest country in the world. Its population is one billion (one thousand million), making it the second most populous country after China. The Indian subcontinent is a peninsular region south of the Himalayas and Kuen Lun mountain ranges and east of the Hindu Kush mountain range and Balochistan region, extending southward into the Indian Ocean between the Arabian Sea (to the southwest) and the Bay of Bengal (to the southeast). It covers about 4,480,000 km² (1,729,738 mi²). It has 7,516 kms of coastline on three bodies of water: the Arabian Sea off its western coast, the Indian Ocean to the south and the Bay of Bengal on its eastern side. The Himalayas are considered the highest and the youngest mountain range, and is still evolving. In the North of India the terrain is varying in nature and we can find arid mountains in the far north coming closer to Srinagar we find a lot of greenery and lakes. The state that forms the crown of India is Jammu and Kashmir. Then starts the fertile plains of Punjab and the foot hills of Uttar Pradesh. The states that form the west of India are Gujrat, Maharashtra, and Goa. At the center of India lies the state of Madhya Pradesh. The sates that make the Eastern part of India are part of Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Orrisa and West Bengal.
The two main religions are Hinduism (80%) and the Muslim religion (10%) but there are also small numbers of Buddhists, Christians, Sikhs, Parsees and Jains. There are 25 states, six union territories and the National Capitol Territory (Delhi) in the Republic of India.
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