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India

Standards

Road Traffic:left side

Electricity:

Voltage:230V

Frequency:50 Hz

Plug types:C, D,

Note:

TV Systems:

System:PAL B

DVD-Region: 5

Geography

Bordering countries:

Bangladesh 4,053 km Bhutan 605 km Burma 1,463 km China 3,380 km Nepal 1,690 km Pakistan 2,912 km

Location:

Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and Pakistan

Area:

total: 3,287,590 sq km

land: 2,973,190 sq km

water: 314,400 sq km

Climate:

varies from tropical monsoon in south to temperate in north

Terrain:

upland plain (Deccan Plateau) in south, flat to rolling plain along the Ganges, deserts in west, Himalayas in north

Economy

GDP: $3.611 trillion (2005 est.)

GDP growth rate: 7.6% (2005 est.)

GDP per capita: $3,300 (2005 est.)

Inflation rate: 4.2% (2005 est.)

Currency: Indian rupee (INR)

Exchange rates:

Indian rupees per US dollar - 44.101 (2005), 45.317 (2004), 46.583 (2003), 48.61 (2002), 47.186 (2001)

People

Population: 1,095,351,995 (July 2006 est.)

Growth rate: 1.38% (2006 est.)

Religions:

Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% (2001 census)

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

Government

Capital:

name: New Delhi

time difference: UTC+5.5 (10.5 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)

Independence:

15 August 1947 (from UK)

Note: Information on India was mainly sourced from CIA's World Factbook and may represent an American point of view. To learn more about India, please visit one of the links below.

CIA's World Factbook on India

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