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Information about India

Location

India is located in Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. India shares borders with Burma (1,463 km), Pakistan (2,912 km), Bangladesh (4,053 km), Bhutan (605 km), China (3,380 km) and Nepal (1,690 km).

Statistics

• Area: 3,287,590 km²
• Population: 1,095,351,995 (July 2006)
• Capital: New Delhi
• Languages: English enjoys associate status but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication; Hindi is the national language and primary tongue of 30% 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
• Religion: Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1%
• Climate: Varies from tropical monsoon in south to temperate in north
• Time Zone: GMT +5.5hrs
• Currency: Indian Rupee [INR]