

India has the fourth largest number of spoken languages per country in the world, only behind Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and Nigeria. India is also a member of the G20 and has been described as a potential superpower due to its rising economy and increase in global influence. India has its own space agency and has done various research throughout the solar system. India is a nuclear power and has the second largest standing military in the world. India has the fifth largest economy by nominal GDP, the third largest by GDP (PPP) and is the fastest growing major economy. India is a founding member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), and has signed the Kyoto Protocol. However, it still has many social and economic issues like poverty and corruption. According to New World Wealth, India is the fifth richest country in the world with a total individual wealth of $12.6 trillion. India's literacy and wealth are also rising. India's economy became the world's fastest growing in the G20 developing nations during 2014, replacing the People's Republic of China. India has the second largest military force in the world and is also a nuclear weapon state. It has six neighbors: Pakistan in the north-west, China, Nepal, and Bhutan in the north, and Bangladesh and Myanmar in the east. India is a peninsula, bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast. It also has the most people of any democracy in the world. It is second largest country by number of people and seventh largest country by land area.

India ( Hindi: Bhārat), officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: Bhārat Gaṇarājya) and also known as Hindustan or Bhārat within the country, is a country in South Asia.
