New iPad lands in India and eight other countries today

Apple's latest iPad continues to trek around the world.

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The new iPad arrives today in nine more countries, including Colombia, Estonia, India, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, South Africa, and Thailand.

This marks the fourth phase of Apple's staggered rollout.

The new iPad debuted in the U.S., and nine other nations on March 16. The tablet travelled to an additional 25 countries, mostly throughout Europe, on March 23. And last Friday saw 12 more nations on the receiving end of the latest iPad.

The iPad is now available in 56 different countries, or 58 markets altogether if Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are included in the mix.

Sales of the tablet have been unsurprisingly strong. On Tuesday Apple revealed that it had sold 11.8 million iPads during its second fiscal quarter, a 151 percent jump from a year ago. Analysts, though, had been expecting slightly better, in the range of 12 million to 13 million.

"[We] can't make enough" iPads, Chief Financial Officer CFO Peter Oppenheimer said on Tuesday "[We're] selling as fast as we can make them."

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