India – country at a glance
Bharat Ganrajya
the UK)
N, 77.2090° E)
est.)
7 Union Territories.
years
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(2018 est.)
(2018 est.)
republic
language in India
Republic of
India;
15 August 1947 (from
The Constitution of India came into force on 26th January 1950.
New Delhi — (28.6139°
Mumbai — (19.0760° N,
72.8777° E) 3,287,263 sq kms
1,296,834,042 (July 2018
Uttar Pradesh. 223,897,418 (2017 estimate); States and their capitals; Union Territories and their capitals
71.2 percent Indian Ram Nath Kovind Narendra Modi
“Jana-Gana-Mana” (Thou Art the Ruler of the Minds of All People)
26th January (Republic Day); 2nd October (Gandhi Jayanti; Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday); 15th August (Independence Day)
Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Sikhism
China, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar Indian rupee (INR)
29 States and
Total population: 69.1
Textiles, chemicals, food processing, steel, transportation equipment, cement, mining, petroleum, machinery, software, pharmaceuticals
$304.1 billion (2017 est.) — petroleum products, precious stones, vehicles, machinery, iron and steel, chemicals, pharmaceutical products, cereals, apparel
$452.2 billion (2017 est.) — crude oil, precious stones, machinery, chemicals, fertilizer, plastics, iron and steel
$7,200 (2017
18.7 births/1,000 population
7.3 deaths/1,000 population
1.08 male(s)/female (2018 est.)
Federal parliamentary
The Lion Capital of Ashoka, which depicts four Asiatic lions standing back to back mounted on a circular abacus, is the official emblem; Bengal tiger; lotus flower Saffron, white, green
Hindi 41 percent, Bengali 8.1 percent, Telugu 7.2 percent, Marathi 7 percent, Tamil 5.9 percent, Urdu 5 percent, Gujarati 4.5 percent, Kannada 3.7 percent, Malayalam 3.2 percent, Odia 3.2 percent, Punjabi 2.8 percent, Assamese 1.3 percent, Maithili 1.2 percent, other 5.9 percent (CIA)
There is no national
There are 22 official languages designated by the Constitution of India. They are: 1. Assamese, 2. Bengali, 3. Bodo, 4. Dogri,5. Gujarati, 6. Hindi, 7. Kannada, 8. Kashmiri, 9. Konkani, 10. Maithili, 11. Malayalam, 12. Manipuri, 13. Marathi, 14. Nepali, 15. Odia, 16. Punjabi, 17. Sanskrit, 18. Santali, 19. Sindhi, 20. Tamil, 21. Telugu, 22. Urdu
Upland plain (Deccan Plateau) in south, flat to rolling plain along the Ganges, deserts in west, Himalayas in north
7,517 kms encompassing the mainland, Lakshadweep Islands, and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. 60.5 percent Coal (fourth-largest reserves in the world), iron ore, manganese, mica, bauxite, rare earth elements, titanium ore, chromite, natural gas, diamonds, petroleum, limestone, arable land IST (UTC+05:30)
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