Area : 3,287,263 sq.Km. ( Seventh largest 2.42% in the world )
Capital : New Delhi
Land Measures : 3,214 Kms. North to South, 2,933 Kms. East to West
Land Frontiers : 15,320 Kms ( Including total length of enclaves )
Coastline : 7,516.5 Kms ( Including Lakshadweep and Andaman & Nicobar Islands )
Population (2001 Census) : 1,027,015,247
Density of Population (2001 Census): 324 persons per square kilometer
Sex Ratio (2001 Census) : 933 Females for 1000 males
Time : 5 1/2 hours ahead of GMT
Literacy (2001 Census) : 65.38% (75.85% Male; 54.16 Female)
Religion : Hindus 73.72%, Muslims 11.96%, Chirstians 6.08%, Sikhs 2.16%,
Buddhist 0.71%, Jains 0.40%, Bahal 0.12%, Zoroastrian 0.02%, Others 1.44%
Currency : Indian Rupee (INR), which is divided into 100 paise. (Re 1=100ps. )
Official Languages : Hindi and English
Sheduled Languages : 15 languages specified in the eight schedule of the constitution.
Assamese, Bengali, Gujrati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Urdu, Malyalam, Marathi, Oriya
Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu.
Independence : 15th August, 1947.
Republic : 26th January, 1950.
National Flag : Tricolor in horizontal strips of deep saffron at the top, white in the middle and dark green at the bottom, in equal proportion. In the centre of the white band is the ASHOKA CHAKRA with 24 spokes in navy blue.
National Emblem : Adaptation of the Sarnath Lion of the Ashoka Pillar
National Anthem : Jana-Gana-Mana ( Rabindranath Tagore )
National Song : Vande Matram ( Bankim Chandra Chattergi )
National Calender :This is based on Saka Era with Chaitra as its first month and a normal year of 365 days. Chaitra 1, generally falls on March 22 and on March 21 in a leap year.
Total Road Length : 3,320,000 Kms.
Total Railway Route : 63,028 Kms.
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