List some important facts about India’s population size and density, its languages, its history, and the influence of the general geography of South Asia on India

What will be an ideal response?

• India's more than one billion people live in an area one-third the size of the United States.


• "The country hosts fifteen major languages, almost as many alphabets, and many regional dialects."


• "It is the world's largest democracy."


• "Its continuous history . . . stretches back five thousand years and beyond . . ."


• South Asia including India is a "huge diamond cut off from neighboring lands . . ."


• Perhaps owing to its isolating geography, greater India has developed distinct cultures and life-ways.