India
India (officially Republic of India) is a country in Southern Asia, with its capital at New Delhi, and is home to roughly 1.5B people.
Its official languages are English, Hindi, Tamil; the currency in circulation is Indian rupee (₹); people from here are called Indian.
- »India has no single national language; the constitution recognises 22 scheduled languages.
- »It is the most populous country in the world.
- »The Kumbh Mela is the largest gathering of people anywhere on Earth.
India straddles the Tropic of Cancer.
India touches six neighbours: Bangladesh to the east, Bhutan to the northeast, China to the northeast, Myanmar to the east, Nepal to the northeast and Pakistan to the northwest. Directions run from one centre to the other.
New Delhi was built by the British and inaugurated in 1931, moving the capital from Calcutta. It sits beside Old Delhi, the Mughal capital, so the seat of government has shifted across the same plain for centuries.
3,155,735 km² (1,218,436 sq mi), 7th largest of 198 countries and territories on file.
Population 1,450,935,791, 1st of 198 on file. That averages 460 per km² (1,191 per sq mi).
The Ashoka Chakra, a 24-spoke wheel from the 3rd-century BC Lion Capital, replaced Gandhi's spinning wheel at the centre. Saffron for courage, white for truth, green for faith. By law it was long required to be made of hand-spun khadi cloth.