National name:
Bharat (Hindi) / India
Bharatiya Janarajya (unofficial) / Republic of India
Area:
3,166,829 sq km/ 1,222,713 sq m
Capital:
New Delhi
Currency:
Rupee
Population:
1,096,917,000 (2005 est)
Language:
Hindi, English, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu (all official), more than 1,650 dialects
Religion:
Hindu 80%, Sunni Muslim 10%, Christian 2.5%, Sikh 2%, Buddhist, Jewish
Time difference:
GMT +5.5 |
