Indial on maismaapiir Bangladeshi, Myanmari, Hiina, Bhutani, Nepali ja Pakistaniga ning India ookeanis India ranniku lähedal asuvad Sri Lanka ja Maldiivid. Osariigid ja territooriumid India jaguneb 28 osariigiks (states), 6 liiduterritooriumiks (union territories; tähistatud märgiga *) ja Delhi rahvuslikuks pealinnaterritooriumiks: · Andamanid ja Nicobarid * · Andhra Pradesh · Arunachal Pradesh · Assam · Bihar · Chandigarh * · Chhattisgarh · Dadra ja Nagar Haveli * · Daman ja Diu * · Delhi · Goa · Gujarat · Haryana · Himachal Pradesh · Jammu ja Kashmir · Jharkhand · Karnataka · Kerala · Lakshadweep * · Lääne-Bengal · Madhya Pradesh · Maharashtra · Manipur · Meghalaya · Mizoram · Nagaland · Orissa · Pandzab · Puducherry * · Rajasthan · Sikkim · Tamil Nadu · Tripura · Uttarakhand
Gradually, new economic development projects and relocation of mainland Portuguese citizens into the overseas provinces in Africa were initiated, with Angola and Mozambique, as the largest and richest overseas territories, being the main targets of those initiatives. These actions were used to affirm Portugal's status as a pluricontinental nation and not as a colonial empire. After India attained independence in 1947, pro-Indian residents of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, with the support of the Indian government and the help of pro-independence organisations, invaded the territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli from Portuguese rule in 1954. In 1961, São João Baptista de Ajudá's annexation by the Republic of Dahomey was the start of a process that led to the final dissolution of the centuries-old Portuguese Empire.According to the census of 1921 São João Baptista de Ajudá had 5 inhabitants and, at the moment of the