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FACTS AND INFORMATIONS ABOUT INDIA

Official Name
Bharat (Hindi), Republic of India (English)

Capital
New Delhi

Population
1, 027, 015, 247 (2001 Census)

Area
3.3 million square kilometers

Geographical Location
Lies between latitudes 8 ° 4' and 37 ° 6 ' north and longitudes 68 ° 7 ' and 97° 25' east

Coastline Length
7600 km

Languages
India has two National languages (Central administrative). They are English (associate official) and Hindi (in the Devanagiri script). The Indian Constitution also officially recognizes 22 regional languages.

Major Religions
Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism

Literacy
65.38%

National Anthem
Jan gana mana written by Rabindranath Tagore

National Song
Vande Mataram, composed in Sanskrit by Bankimchandra Chatterji

National Emblem
Replica of the Lion Capital of Sarnath

National Flag
Horizontal tricolor in equal proportion of deep saffron on the top, white in the middle and dark green at the bottom. In the center of the white band is a wheel in navy blue color

National Animal
Tiger(Panthera tigris)

National Bird
Peacock

National Flower
Lotus

National Tree
Banyan

National Fruit
Mango

National Currency
Rupee (One Rupee=100 paise)

National Sport
Hockey

Division	Typ	HASC	ISO	FIPS	SC	UPU	Veh	Dist	Population	Area(km.²)	Area(mi.²)	PIN	Capital
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	u	IN.AN	AN	IN01	35	AN	AN	2	356,265	8,249	3,185	744	Port Blair
Andhra Pradesh	s	IN.AP	AP	IN02	28	AP	AP	23	75,727,541	275,068	106,204	50-53	Hyderabad
Arunachal Pradesh	s	IN.AR	AR	IN30	12	AR	AR	15	1,091,117	83,743	32,333	790-792	Itanagar
Assam	s	IN.AS	AS	IN03	18	AS	AS	23	26,638,407	78,438	30,285	78	Dispur
Bihar	s	IN.BR	BR	IN34	10	BR	BR	37	82,878,796	99,200	38,301	80-85	Patna
Chandigarh	u	IN.CH	CH	IN05	04	CHD	CH	1	900,914	114	44	16	Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh	s	IN.CT	CT	IN37	22		CG	16	20,795,956	135,194	52,199	49	Raipur
Dadra and Nagar Haveli	u	IN.DN	DN	IN06	26	DNH	DN	1	220,451	491	190	396	Silvassa
Daman and Diu	u	IN.DD	DD	IN32	25	DD	DD	2	158,059	112	43	396	Daman
Delhi	u	IN.DL	DL	IN07	07	DEL	DL	1	13,782,976	1,483	573	11	Delhi
Goa	s	IN.GA	GA	IN33	30	GOA	GA	2	1,343,998	3,702	1,429	403	Panaji
Gujarat	s	IN.GJ	GJ	IN09	24	GUJ	GJ	25	50,596,992	196,024	75,685	36-39	Gandhinagar
Haryana	s	IN.HR	HR	IN10	06	HR	HR	19	21,082,989	44,212	17,070	12-13	Chandigarh
Himachal Pradesh	s	IN.HP	HP	IN11	02	HP	HP	12	6,077,248	55,673	21,495	17	Shimla
Jammu and Kashmir	s	IN.JK	JK	IN12	01	JK	JK	14	10,069,917	222,236	85,806	18-19	Srinagar, Jammu
Jharkhand	s	IN.JH	JH	IN38	20		JH	18	26,909,428	74,677	28,833	814-835	Ranchi
Karnataka	s	IN.KA	KA	IN19	29	KRN	KA	27	52,733,958	191,791	74,051	56-59	Bangalore
Kerala	s	IN.KL	KL	IN13	32	KER	KL	14	31,838,619	38,863	15,005	67-69	Thiruvananthapuram
Lakshadweep	u	IN.LD	LD	IN14	31	LKP	LD	1	60,595	32	12	673	Kavaratti
Madhya Pradesh	s	IN.MP	MP	IN35	23	MP	MP	48	60,385,118	308,252	119,016	45-48	Bhopal
Maharashtra	s	IN.MH	MH	IN16	27	MAH	MH	35	96,752,247	307,690	118,800	40-44	Mumbai
Manipur	s	IN.MN	MN	IN17	14	MNP	MN	9	2,388,634	22,327	8,621	795-796	Imphal
Meghalaya	s	IN.ML	ML	IN18	17	MEG	ML	7	2,306,069	22,429	8,660	793-794	Shillong
Mizoram	s	IN.MZ	MZ	IN31	15	MIZ	MZ	8	891,058	21,081	8,139	796	Aizawl
Nagaland	s	IN.NL	NL	IN20	13	NLD	NL	8	1,988,636	16,579	6,401	797-798	Kohima
Orissa	s	IN.OR	OR	IN21	21	OR	OR	30	36,706,920	155,707	60,119	75-77	Bhubaneswar
Pondicherry	u	IN.PY	PY	IN22	34	PDY	PY	4	973,829	492	190	605	Pondicherry
Punjab	s	IN.PB	PB	IN23	03	PU	PB	17	24,289,296	50,362	19,445	14-15	Chandigarh
Rajasthan	s	IN.RJ	RJ	IN24	08	RAJ	RJ	32	56,473,122	342,239	132,139	30-34	Jaipur
Sikkim	s	IN.SK	SK	IN29	11	SKM	SK	4	540,493	7,096	2,740	737	Gangtok
Tamil Nadu	s	IN.TN	TN	IN25	33	TN	TN	30	62,110,839	130,058	50,216	60-64	Chennai
Tripura	s	IN.TR	TR	IN26	16	TRP	TR	4	3,191,168	10,486	4,049	799	Agartala
Uttaranchal	s	IN.UT	UL	IN39	05		UA	13	8,479,562	51,125	19,739	246-263	Dehradun
Uttar Pradesh	s	IN.UP	UP	IN36	09	UP	UP	70	166,052,859	243,286	93,934	20-28	Lucknow
West Bengal	s	IN.WB	WB	IN28	19	WB	WB	19	80,221,171	88,752	34,267	70-74	Kolkata
35 divisions								591	1,027,015,247	3,287,263	1,269,218
Typ: These divisions are 28 states (s) and 7 union territories (u). HASC: › Hierarchical administrative subdivision codes. ISO: State codes from ISO 3166-2. For full identification in a global context, prefix "IN-" to the code (ex: IN-UL represents Uttaranchal). FIPS: Codes from FIPS PUB 10-4. SC: State codes used by the Census of India. UPU: "Postal addressing systems" is a document available online from the Universal Postal Union. Its entry for India has a list of states and codes. The codes are presumably official postal abbreviations for the states. Veh: Vehicle codes (first two characters on license plates). Dist: Number of districts in each division. Population: 2001-03-01 census, provisional figures. Area: Jammu and Kashmir includes areas claimed by Pakistan and China. PIN: Indian postal codes (postal index numbers) are six digits. They are sometimes written with a space between the third and fourth digits. The first three digits generally determine a district. Ranges listed here are the first two or three digits of the PIN. The newly formed states don't have well-defined ranges of PINs. Capital: Srinagar is the summer capital, and Jammu the winter capital, of Jammu and Kashmir.

Languages of India
Republic of India, Bharat. 1,065,070,607. Indo-Aryan 777,361,000, 76%; Dravidian 216,635,000, 21.6%; Austro-Asiatic 12,250,000, 1.2%; Tibeto-Burman 10,350,000, 1%; Other 2,468,600, 0.2%. National or official languages: Hindi and English. There are 22 official 'scheduled' languages: Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Meitei, Nepali, Oriya, Eastern Panjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu. Literacy rate: 36% to 52%. Also includes Armenian (560), Burushaski, Chitwania Tharu, Geman Deng, Judeo-Iraqi Arabic, Kathoriya Tharu, Northern Pashto (15,000), Portuguese (250,000), Russian (1,036), Uyghur, Walungge, Western Farsi (18,000), Arabic, Chinese. Information mainly from G. Marrison 1967; R. Hugoniot 1970; C. Masica 1991; K. S. Singh 1994, 1995; J. Matisoff, S. Baron, and J. Lowe 1996; R. Breton 1997; R. Burling ms 1998. Blind population: 9,000,000. Deaf population: 9,400,000 to 14,000,000 (2001). Deaf institutions: 850. The number of languages listed for India is 428. Of those, 415 are living languages and 13 are extinct.