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India, officially the Republic of India (Bhārat Gaṇarājya), is a country in South Asia.

It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country (with over 1.2 billion people), and the most populous democracy in the world.

It is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast.

It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast; and Myanmar (Burma) and Bangladesh to the east.

In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives.

India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.

A union territory is a type of administrative division in the Republic of India.

Unlike the states, which have their own elected governments, union territories are ruled directly by the Union Government (Central Government), hence the name "union territory".

Union territories in India qualify as federal territories, by definition.

A state is a type of polity that is an organized political community living under a single system of government.

States may or may not be sovereign.

For instance, federated states are members of a federal union, and may have only partial sovereignty, but are, nonetheless, states.

Some states are subject to external sovereignty or hegemony, in which ultimate sovereignty lies in another state.

States that are sovereign are known as sovereign states.

A map is a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements of some space, such as objects, regions, or themes.

An outline, also called a hierarchical outline, is a list arranged to show hierarchical relationships and is a type of tree structure.

An outline is used to present the main points (in sentences) or topics (terms) of a given subject.

Each item in an outline may be divided into additional sub-items.

Each organizational level in an outline has at least two subcategories as advised by major style manuals in current use.

An outline may be used as a drafting tool of a document, or as a summary of the content of a document or of the knowledge in an entire field.

It is not to be confused with the general context of the term "outline", which a summary or overview of a subject, presented verbally or written in prose (for example, The Outline of History is not an outline of the type presented below).

The outlines described in this article are lists, and come in several varieties.