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The last dance

20241215_132930
20241215_132930

The east and Southern African journalists' familiarisation tour of the world's populous nationa of india ended in style last December just on the even of the Christmas day, Mmegi Staffer Ryder Gabathuse relieves the indian experience

NEW DELHI: India, a country that occupies the greater part of South Asia, has the largest population in the world at 1, 450, 935, 791, having overtaken China, which has been the most populous nation in the world for the longest time. Coming from a country with one of the lowest populations in the world, albeit estimated to be the size of France and Texas, you cannot help but marvel at hordes of people in India’s bustling cities with gridlock jams and clunky human movement. Botswana covers approximately 581, 730 square kilometres.

New Delhi, India’s capital city, which was also the main area of our tour, has an estimated population of 32, 941, 000 people and still growing.

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