India

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This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.

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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.

Locator map of India. India is filled; surrounding countries are drawn in a dimmer tone and nothing is hidden behind them. 11 contested areas are marked with hatching: Aksai Chin, Arunachal Pradesh, Azad Kashmir, Bara Hotii Valleys (marked at minimum size, not to scale), Demchok, Gilgit-Baltistan, Jammu and Kashmir, Junagadh and Manavadar (marked at minimum size, not to scale), Near Om Parvat (marked at minimum size, not to scale), Samdu Valleys (marked at minimum size, not to scale), Tirpani Valleys. 31 parts of it are too small to draw at this scale and are not shown. View spans 65.5°E to 100.0°E and 4.1°N to 38.1°N. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m.Aksai Chin — status contested; see the list below.Arunachal Pradesh — status contested; see the list below.Azad Kashmir — status contested; see the list below.Bara Hotii Valleys — status contested; see the list below.Demchok — status contested; see the list below.Gilgit-Baltistan — status contested; see the list below.Jammu and Kashmir — status contested; see the list below.Junagadh and Manavadar — status contested; see the list below.Near Om Parvat — status contested; see the list below.Samdu Valleys — status contested; see the list below.Tirpani Valleys — status contested; see the list below.

India is filled. The 16 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.

The 11 hatched areas are contested, and Aletheia takes no position on any of them. The hatching marks where the dispute lies — including where it falls inside the outline — and it is the same set the list below names. 4 of them are smaller than this map can draw and are marked with a fixed-size diamond: the diamond is their position, not their size or shape.

31 parts of India in this source are smaller than a pixel at this scale and are not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and they have not been enlarged to make them visible.

Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 21.1°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 65.5°E–100.0°E, 4.1°N–38.1°N.

Disputed areas involving India

11 areas whose status is contested. Aletheia takes no position on any of them. Each is described in the source’s own words.

Source: Natural Earth’s disputed-areas layer (public domain). The list is not exhaustive, and inclusion or omission is not a judgment about any claim’s merit. What has happened in these places is not described here — that needs a source Aletheia has not yet been able to read.

  1. News sources

    3 sources from Indiain Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is covered.

    • The Indian Express
    • The Hindu (Intl)
    • Times of India

    sources not yet assessed

  2. Official alerts

    An official alerting source is connected for India: NDMA SACHET (IN).

    This says a source is connected — not whether any warning is in force right now. Open Alerts for that.

  3. National legislature

    Parliament of India ↗

    Wikidata P856 · link checked and reachable

  4. Local time

    One time zone.

    The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

  5. Conditions at the capital

    Right now in New Delhi

    32°C / 89°FMainly clearwind 7 km/h / 4 mph

    Checked 12 minutes ago

    Conditions at the capital, not across the country.

    Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

    New Delhi, 2026-09-20Sunrise 6:08 AM · sunset 6:20 PM12h 12m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit

  6. At a glance

    ISO code
    INDuncited
    Driving side
    leftcited
    Mains voltage
    230 Vcited
    Capital
    New Delhiuncited
    Official languages
    English, Hindicited
    Plug types
    Type C (Europlug), Type D (BS 546), Type M (BS 546)cited · letters are the IEC classification
    Official website
    india.gov.in ↗EnglishWe could not reach this from our checker. Many government sites refuse automated requests, so this is not a report that the site is down.इंडिया.सरकार.भारत ↗HindiFrom the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited

  7. Population and economy

    Population

    Population of India: the UN's 2025 estimate is 1,463,865,525 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 25 more a minute. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.

    Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.

    Where this number comes from
    Base figure
    1,463,865,525 people
    For the year
    2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
    Compared with
    1,450,935,791 people in 2024
    Rate applied
    about 25 more a minute (12,938,324 a year)
    How that rate was found
    The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
    Carried forward
    0 days beyond the base figure's date
    Source
    UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
    The source's own definition
    The values shown are midyear estimates.

    THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.

    Population
    1,463,865,5252025
    GDP
    3,956,067,115,7722025
    GDP per capita
    2,7022025
    Life expectancy at birth
    72.2 years2024
    Exports
    22.3%2025
    Imports
    24.0%2025

    Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source

  8. In this country's own words

    A motto IS recorded for this country, but not in any of its official languages. Aletheia does not quote a country in a language it does not use officially — the risk is quoting a mis-tagged entry as a nation's own words. That is our rule declining it, not the source failing to record one.

    Also recorded in Sanskrit.

  9. World Heritage Sites

    45 World Heritage Sitesshow all
    1. Ajanta Caves · inscribed 1983
    2. Ellora Caves · inscribed 1983
    3. Agra Fort · inscribed 1983
    4. Konark Sun Temple · inscribed 1984
    5. Group of monuments at Mahabalipuram · inscribed 1984
    6. Kaziranga National Park · inscribed 1985
    7. Manas National Park · inscribed 1985
    8. Kevladev National Park · inscribed 1985
    9. Churches and Convents of Goa · inscribed 1986
    10. Khajuraho Group of Monuments · inscribed 1986
    11. Hampi · inscribed 1986
    12. Fatehpur Sikri · inscribed 1986
    13. Pattadakal Group of Monuments · inscribed 1987
    14. Elephanta Caves · inscribed 1987
    15. Great Living Chola Temples · inscribed 1987
    16. Sundarbans National Park · inscribed 1987
    17. Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks · inscribed 1988
    18. Sanchi · inscribed 1989
    19. Humayun's Tomb · inscribed 1993
    20. Qutb complex · inscribed 1993
    21. Mountain Railways of India · inscribed 1999
    22. Mahabodhi Temple · inscribed 2002
    23. Bhimbetka rock shelters · inscribed 2003
    24. Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park · inscribed 2004
    25. Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus · inscribed 2004
    26. Red Fort · inscribed 2007
    27. Jantar Mantar · inscribed 2010
    28. Western Ghats · inscribed 2012
    29. Hill Forts of Rajasthan · inscribed 2013
    30. Great Himalayan National Park · inscribed 2014
    31. Rani ki vav · inscribed 2014
    32. The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier · inscribed 2016 · shared with Argentina, Belgium and 4 more countries
    33. Nalanda Mahavihara · inscribed 2016
    34. Historic City of Ahmadabad · inscribed 2017
    35. Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai · inscribed 2018
    36. Jaipur · inscribed 2019
    37. Ramappa Temple · inscribed 2021
    38. Dholavira · inscribed 2021
    39. Santiniketan · inscribed 2023
    40. Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas · inscribed 2023
    41. Maidam · inscribed 2024
    42. Maratha Military Landscapes of India · inscribed 2025
    43. Sarnath · inscribed 2026
    44. Khangchendzonga National Park
    45. Taj Mahal

    Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO

  10. Emergency numbers

    • 100listed as: police
    • 101listed as: fire department
    • 102listed as: emergency medical services
    • 108listed as: emergency
    • 112

    Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.

    Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.

  11. Explore this country

  12. Regions

    First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates

  13. Currency

    INR

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

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