Hiya, Here are some India facts for you:
Population: 1,129,866,154
Area: 3.3 million square kilometres
Coastline length: 7600km
Languages: 17 major languages, 844 dialects.
Including - Hindi (official), English, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, and Sanskrit
Religions: Hindu 81.3%, Muslim 12%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other groups including Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Tribal Religions 2.5%
Capital City: New Delhi
Time: GMT + 5.5 hours
Currency: Indian Rupee
Number of districts in India : 593
Indian families who own a TV set: 32 %
Number of houses: 179 million
People below poverty line: about 260 million
Poor living in India: one quarter of the world's poor
World's largest slum: located in Mumbai; Dharavi, 432 acres
Number of cows in India: 200 million
Number of buffaloes in India: 90 million
Life expectancy:
Total: 68.6 years
Female: 71.2 years
Male: 66.3 years
Infant mortality rate: 35 deaths per 1,000 live births
Population per physician: 1,951 people
Population per hospital bed: 1,111 people
Literacy rate:
Total: 56.6 percent
Female: 43 percent
Male: 69.5 percent
Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP): 2.9 percent
Number of years of compulsory schooling: 9 years
Number of students per teacher: primary school 41 students per teacher
Form of government: Federal republic
Head of state: President
Head of government: Prime minister
Hope this helps!!
2007-08-19 02:26:06
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answered by sophia f 3
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What fact exactly !!
Pls ask more specifically - every data is available
2007-08-18 23:03:28
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answered by Anonymous
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Please check following links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India
http://india.gov.in/
2007-08-18 15:55:27
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answered by vakayil k 7
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