- Official name
- Republic of India भारत गणराज्य · Hindi
1 more name
இந்தியக் குடியரசு · Tamil - Capital
- New Delhi
- Region
- Southern Asia
- Population (2018 est.)
- ≈ 1.35 billion
- Area
- 3,287,590 km²
- Currency
- Indian rupee (INR)
- Neighbours
- Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, China, Nepal, Pakistan
- Internet / phone
- .in · +91
Where it is
Notable facts
- India is the world’s largest democracy by number of voters.
- Zero as a number, the decimal place-value system, chess and the game of snakes and ladders all originate in India.
- The country has 22 scheduled languages and hundreds more spoken; banknotes carry 17 of them.
- Cherrapunji and Mawsynram in Meghalaya are among the wettest inhabited places on Earth.
World Heritage 45 sites
National dish
India has no national dish, and the government has said so explicitly — a 2017 report that khichdi had been declared one was denied within days. Regional and religious variety is the reason, not an oversight.