India is located in South East Asia and is ranked seventh largest country by area. It shares land borders with Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma and Bangladesh, and its coastline is bounded by the Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, and the Bay of Bengal.
India has a rich and vibrant past originating out of the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation more than 4 000 years ago. A long history of empirical domination and cross-tribal trade routes has brought the country to become the ethnically and linguistically diverse cultural mosaic that it is today.