- Name: India
(long form) Republic of India - Capital City: New Delhi (249,998 mun. corp. pop.)
(21,753,386 metro) - India Population: 1,220,800,359 (2013 est.)
- World Populations (all countries)
- Currency: Indian Rupee (INR)
(conversion rates)
20 Indian Rupees - Ethnicity: Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3%
- GDP total: $4.784 trillion (2012 est.)
- GDP per capita: $3,900 (2012 est.)
- Land Sizes
- Language: Hindi 41%, Bengali 8.1%, Telugu 7.2%,
Marathi 7%, Tamil 5.9%, Urdu 5%, Gujarati 4.5%, Kannada 3.7%, Malayalam
3.2%, Oriya 3.2%, Punjabi 2.8%, Assamese 1.3%, Maithili 1.2%, other 5.9%
Note: English is the subsidiary official
language, but is the most important language for national, political,
and commercial communication; Hindi is the most widely spoken language
and primary tongue of 41% of the people; there are 14 other official
languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam,
Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, and Sanskrit;
Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout
northern India but is not an official language - Largest Cities: (by population) Mumbai (Bombay), Delhi, Calcutta, Bangalore, Chennai (Madras)
- Name: From the Old Persian word Hindu, the local name for the Indus River
- National Day: January 26
- Religion: Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1%
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