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Facts about India:
- Location: Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between
Burma and Pakistan
- National capital: New Delhi
Languages: English enjoys associate status but is the most important language for
national, political, and commercial communication, Hindi the national language
and primary tongue of 30% of the people, Bengali (official), Telugu (official),
Marathi (official), Tamil (official), Urdu (official), Gujarati (official),
Malayalam (official), Kannada (official), Oriya (official), Punjabi (official),
Assamese (official), Kashmiri (official), Sindhi (official), Sanskrit (official),
Hindustani a popular variant of Hindu/Urdu, is spoken widely throughout northern
India
note: 24 languages each spoken by a million or more persons; numerous other
languages and dialects, for the most part mutually unintelligible
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