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Bharat and India are both official names of the country. The BJP argues that the name "India" is a leftover from the colonial period. Naresh Bansal, a BJP member of parliament, said the name India is a symbol of "colonial rule" and "should be removed from the constitution." Bansal said in a parliamentary session:
The dominant customary international law standard of statehood is the declarative theory of statehood, which was codified by the Montevideo Convention of 1933. The Convention defines the state as a person of international law if it "possess[es] the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) a capacity to enter into relations with the ...
India, officially the Republic of India, [j] [21] is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area ; the most populous country from June 2023 onwards; [ 22 ] [ 23 ] and since its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy.
Country Capital Country Capital Official or native language(s) (alphabet/script) The Bahamas: Nassau: The Bahamas: Nassau: English: Bahrain: Manama: Al-Baḥrayn البحرين: Al-Manāmah المنامة: Arabic (Arabic script) Bangladesh: Dhaka: Bānglādesh বাংলাদেশ: Dhākā ঢাকা: Bengali (Bengali script) Barbados
The full name of the country is the Republic of India. India and Bharat are equally official short names for the Republic of India in the Constitution, [21] and both names appears on legal banknotes, in treaties and in legal cases.
This is a series of lists by country. The lists generally cover topics related to sovereign countries ; however, states with limited recognition are also included. Topical country articles
The list of names in Country and Region Codes for Statistical Use of the UN Statistics Division is based on the bulletin Country Names and other UN sources. Once a country name or territory name appears in either of these two sources, it will be added to ISO 3166-1 by default. The ISO 3166/MA may reserve code elements for other entities that do ...
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 – two-letter country codes which are also used to create the ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes and the Internet country code top-level domains. ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 – three-letter country codes which may allow a better visual association between the codes and the country names than the 3166-1 alpha-2 codes.