Facts and Figures
Full name: India
Nationality
noun: Indian(s)
adjective: Indian
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Area total: 3,287,590 sq km land: 2,973,190 sq km
water: 314,400 sq km
Population: 1,080,264,388 (July 2005 est.)
Ethnic groups
Indo-Aryan 72%
Dravidian 25% Mongoloid and other 3% (2000)
Capital: New Delhi – 9,820,000
Largest Cities
Mumbay(Bombay) – 11,920,000
Kolkata – 4,580,000 Bangalore – 4,290,000
Official Language: 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 81.3%
Muslim 12% Christian 2.3% Sikh 1.9% Other groups including Buddhist Jain Parsi 2.5% (2000)
Political system: federal republic
GDP: purchasing power parity – $3.319 trillion (2004 est.)
GDP per head: purchasing power parity – $3,100 (2004 est.)
Annual growth: 6.2% (2004 est.)
GDP – composition by sector
agriculture: 23.6%
industry: 28.4% services: 48% (2002 est.)
Inflation: 4.2% (2004 est.)