India is the second-largest country in the world by population.
It is the second-most-visited country in the world (after France).
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As a measure of India's priorities, consider that the world's second-most-populous country has no more diplomats than tiny New Zealand.
We are the second-largest Spanish-speaking country in the world after Mexico.
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In Zimbabwe, the world's second-hardest-hit country, growth has fallen to 1.4% from the 2.4% it would have been without this new, gruesome adjunct to the reaper's scythe.
The total number of mobile-phone users in India reached 392m by the end of March, making the country the world's second-largest market after China.
In the nuclear age, the Soviet Communist Party maintained that the Soviet Union was in imminent danger of attack, and the Soviet Army, as it was re-named after the Second World War, was the country's reliable defender.
The country with the world's second-biggest economy has never invested in a big global science project before.
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The new leaders are expected to spend a decade at the helm of the world's most populous country and second-largest economy.
The weak euro has bolstered the country as the world's second-biggest exporter.
The long squeeze on investment in Iraqi oilfields has kept its production capacity far below the potential of a country with the world's second-largest oil reserves.
But many cities are still without running water, and the country with the second-largest oil reserves in the world is importing gasoline.
"It's a Second World War gunnery trainer - one of only six left in the country, although 40 were built, " said Patrick.
The South American country's preparations for its second World Cup -- and first in more than 60 years -- have been beset by problems.
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Several previous presidents pinned their budgetary hopes on a multi-billion-dollar hoard supposedly hidden somewhere in the country during the second world war by the retreating Japanese.
Stretching from Macon to the Florida Panhandle, it is the second-leading peanut and timber-producing district in the country and home to the world's biggest cigarette plant.
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India is the second country in the world after the USA that can offer images with one-metre resolution.
Not long ago, they note, a German-based organisation, Transparency International, said Pakistan was the world's second most corrupt country.
Upsetting to many Indonesians is the image now spread around the world of a country in turmoil - when it has just come peacefully through a second democratic election, and has been maintaining economic growth despite the world downturn.
Still, the scope of this latest iteration seems to dwarf that of its predecessors, not only because China's economic and political clout is so immense successive years of GDP growth rates around 8- 10 percent have made its economy the second largest in the world but also because the country's communist masters seem obsessed by the way Beijing is perceived abroad.
Despite a decade-long slowdown and then recession, which followed the collapse of the country's stockmarket in 1990-91, Japan remains the world's second-largest economy.
China is still a fairly poor country but, by dint of its large population, it is already the world's second-largest economy measured in current dollars.
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