India

India

India ranks 11th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Spain, Brazil, and Sweden. Memorable people born in present day India include Mahatma Gandhi, Narendra Modi, and Ashoka. Memorable people who died in India include Gautama Buddha, Vasco da Gama, and Mahatma Gandhi. India has been the birth place of many actors, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and writers.

India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country as of June 2023; and from the time of its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy. 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 north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Read more on Wikipedia