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GENERAL INFORMATION OF INDIA India is a great country with a huge population located in South Asia in the Northern Hemisphere. India is a country that values its culture, tradition, values, and beliefs.



Basic Information & Random Facts:

 * Capital: New Delhi
 * Largest City: Mumbai
 * Currency: Indian Rupee
 * Time zone: IST (UTC+5.5) - IST stands for Indian Standard Time
 * Date of Independence (from the United Kingdom): August 15, 1947
 * Republic Date: January 26, 1950
 * Demonym: Indian
 * Calling Code: 91
 * Internet TLD: .in
 * Driving side: Unlike here in Canada, Indians drive on the left side.
 * Population: 1, 210, 193, 422 (2011 census)
 * GDP
 * PPP 2011 estimate:
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Total: $4.469 trillion
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Per capita: $3,703
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Nominal (2011 estimate):
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Total: $1.843 trillion
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">One of the most famous empires of I<span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">ndia was the Mughal Empire. There are several Bollywood films (such as Mughal-E-Azam and Jodha Akbar) on the lives of the Mughal rulers.
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Dhárma], [|kárma], [|yóga], and [|mokṣa] all started in India.
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Shisha (also known as <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Hookah] )<span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> was invented by the Mughals in India.
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">India has numerous famous dishes, drinks, clothes, and dances.

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<span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;">Government:

 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Federation
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Parliamentary system
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Democratic Republic
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Constitutional Republic
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Representative Democracy
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Sovereign, socialist, and secular
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Federal government has three branches
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Executive
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Legislative
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Judicial
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">First Prime Minister was PT. Jawaharlal Nehru
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|List of India's Prime Ministers]
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">First President was Dr. Rajendra Prasad
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|List of India's Presidents]
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Current President is Pratibha Patil
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Patil is the first female President of India.
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Current Prime Minister is Manmohan Singh
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Chief Justice: S.H. Kapadia
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Speaker of the House: Meira Kumar
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Indira Gandhi was the first female Prime Minister of India
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">A famous Indian was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He is recognized all over the world by simply his last name. He is also known as Mahatma, meaning great soul. He was the leader of the Indian nationalist movement against the British.

<span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;">Geography:

 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Located in South Asia
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Lies in the Northern Hemisphere
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Latitude: 22° 00' N
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Longitude of 77° 00' W
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Surrounded by the Bay of Bengal, Arabian Sea, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan, and China.
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">3, 287, 590 square kilometers
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Seventh largest country
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Has Deccan plateau
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Himalayan mountains in the North and desert in the West
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Tropic rainy season in the South and temperate in the North
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">States:
 * * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Andhra Pradesh]
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Arunachal Pradesh]
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Assam]
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Bihar]
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Chhattisgarh]
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Goa]
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Gujarat] || * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Haryana]
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Himachal Pradesh]
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Jammu and Kashmir]
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Jharkhand]
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Karnataka]
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Kerala]
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Madhya Pradesh] || * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Maharashtra]
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Manipur]
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Meghalaya]
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Mizoram]
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Nagaland]
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Orissa]
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Punjab] || * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Rajasthan]
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Sikkim]
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Tamil Nadu]
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Tripura]
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Uttar Pradesh]
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Uttarakhand]
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|West Bengal] ||

<span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Religion:

 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Hinduism, Budd hism, Jainism, and Sikhism are religions that started in India.
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">India's major religions is Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Christianity, and Jainism.
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">The largest religion in India is Hinduism.



<span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Language:

 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">The two official languages in India are Hindi and English.
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">India has numerous languages. People in different parts of India all speak different languages.
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">India's eighteen languages listed by the Indian constitution are:
 * * Assamese
 * Bengali
 * Gujarati
 * Hindi
 * Kannada || * Kashmiri
 * Konkani
 * Malayalam
 * Manipuri
 * Marathi || * Nepali
 * Oriya
 * Punjabi
 * Sanskrit
 * Sindhi || * Tamil
 * Telugu
 * Urdu ||