World Geography and Politics

India was a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement, maintaining a policy of not formally aligning with either the United States or the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

India, Pakistan, and China all have territorial claims or control over parts of the Kashmir region. Bangladesh does not share a border with Kashmir and has no territorial claim to it.

The partition of British India in 1947 was largely based on religious demographics, creating a Hindu-majority India and a Muslim-majority Pakistan, leading to decades of geopolitical tension.

Pakistan was created as a separate nation for Muslims during the 1947 partition of British India.

The Radcliffe Line was the boundary demarcation line between the Indian and Pakistani portions of the Punjab and Bengal provinces of British India at the time of the Partition of India in 1947.

The discovery and subsequent killing of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by US forces in 2011 caused significant diplomatic friction between the two nations.

India and Pakistan are strategically significant to the US due to their location in South Asia, their nuclear capabilities, and their roles in regional security and counter-terrorism efforts.

India, Pakistan, and China all have territorial claims or control parts of the Kashmir region. Bangladesh does not have any territorial claim to Kashmir.

Sri Lanka was known as Ceylon during the period of British colonial rule and for several years after gaining independence in 1948.

Yingluck Shinawatra served as the Prime Minister of Thailand from 2011 to 2014. She was the Chief Guest at India's Republic Day parade in 2012.

One of the southern neighbours of India is Sri Lanka.

McMahon Line is a border between India and China as a part of treaty signed in 1914. The line is named after Sir Henry McMahon, the then foreign secretary of the British Government in India.

Durand Line is the border that separates Afghanistan and Pakistan. It was established in the year 1893 after a memorandum of understanding between Mortimer Durand of British India and Amir Abdur Rahman Khan of Afghanistan.