Taj mahal in India with flag and map

     India officially the Republic of India (Bhārat Gaṇarājya), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largestcountry by area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the south-west, and the Bay of Bengal on the south-east, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north-east; and Burma andBangladesh to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; in addition, India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.

The National Flag of India is a horizontal rectangular tricolour of deep saffron, white and India green; with the Ashoka Chakra, a 24-spoke wheel, in navy blue at its centre. It was adopted in its present form during a meeting of the Constituent Assemblyheld on 22 July 1947, when it became the official flag of the Dominion of India. The flag was subsequently retained as that of the Republic of India. In India, the term "tricolour" (Hindi: तिरंगा, Tirangā) almost always refers to the Indian national flag. The flag is based on the Swaraj flag, a flag of the Indian National Congress designed by Pingali Venkayya.

The Taj Mahal from Persian and Arabic, "crown of palaces", also "the Taj" is a white marble mausoleum located in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan to house the worldly remains of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal, the Taj Mahal stands on the southern bank of the Yamuna River. The mausoleum is widely recognized as "the jewel of Muslim art in India" and remains as one of the world’s most celebrated structures and a symbol of India’s rich history.

Regarded by many as the best example of the Mughal architecture, it is a perfect blend combining elements from Islamic,Persian, Ottoman Turkish as well as Indian architectural styles.

The famed mausoleum complex of white domed marble of the Taj Mahal, it actually is an integrated complex of many structures. The construction began around 1632 and was completed around in 22 years, in 1653, employing around 20,000 artisans and craftsmen throughout the empire. The construction was entrusted to a board of architects, the chief architect probably being Ustad Ahmad Lahauri, an Indian of Persian descent.

Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983, Taj Mahal attracts some 3 million people a year for visit.