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Many believe that 'outside China' means Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh where the 6th Dalai Lama came from, a Tibetan area controlled by India but claimed by China. This would greatly complicate the border demarcation between China and India.
India is bordered by Pakistan to the northeast, and China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north and northwest; and Burma to the east. India surrounds Bangladesh, which was once part of India, on three sides. The southern part of India is in the Indian Ocean; on the west coast of India is the Arabian Sea, on the east are the Bay of Bengal. Just off the southern tip of India is the island country of Sri Lanka, once called Ceylon.