India Facts

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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India's Information

Land Area	2,973,193 km²
Water Area	314,070 km²
Total Area	3,287,263km² (#7)
Population	1,266,883,598 (#2)
Population Density	426.10/km²
Government Type	Federal Parliamentary Republic
GDP (PPP)	$8,720.00 Billion
GDP Per Capita	$6,700
Currency	Rupee (INR)
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