Map of India

India is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 20.0° N, 77.0° E. It shares land borders with 6 countries — Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan — and also has its own coastline. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, India is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

India shares land frontiers with the following 6 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

India covers about 3,287,263 km² (1,269,219 sq mi). That makes it the 7th-largest country in the world by area and the 2nd-largest in Asia, larger by area than 47 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 1,417,492,000, the 1st-largest in the world and the 1st-largest in Asia, accounting for about 30% of the continent’s people. With that land area, India has an average population density of about 431 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 1st by population and 2nd by area.

The seat of government is New Delhi, and the official currency is the Indian rupee (INR, ₹), and the main official languages are English, Hindi and Tamil. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+05:30.

India carries the ISO country codes IN and IND, dials on the international calling code +91 and uses the .in internet domain.

India shares its land borders with 6 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are China (capital Beijing, about 1,408,280,000 people), Pakistan (capital Islamabad, about 241,499,431 people), Bangladesh (capital Dhaka, about 169,828,911 people), Myanmar (capital Naypyidaw, about 51,316,756 people), Nepal (capital Kathmandu, about 29,911,840 people) and Bhutan (capital Thimphu, about 784,043 people).

By area, India is larger than 5 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 20.0° N, 77.0° E and opens at zoom level 4, framing India within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of New Delhi. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

India lies about 2,220 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

India keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+05:30. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +05:30 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Indian rupee (INR, ₹).

The official languages are English, Hindi and Tamil, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +91 and websites commonly use the .in internet domain.

In short, India is a coastal country in Asia, sharing land borders with 6 countries. Its capital is New Delhi. India has a population of about 1,417,492,000 and covers around 3,287,263 km² (1,269,219 sq mi), ranking it 1st in the world by population and 7th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for India.

The flag of India is composed of three equal horizontal bands of saffron, white and green. A navy blue wheel with twenty-four spokes — the Ashoka Chakra — is centered in the white band.

The flag of India is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.