FACTS ABOUT INDIA (updated 2022)
AMAZING FACTS ABOUT INDIA
1.
The name ‘India’ is derived from the
river Indus. It is a valley around which people settled in earlier times.
2.
India is the world’s oldest, largest and
continuous civilization – the Indus Valley civilization.
3.
India is the largest democracy in the
world.
4.
India has the largest postal system in
the world with more than 150,000 post offices.
5.
India has the only floating post office
in the world. It is located on Dal Lake, Sri Nagar.
6.
Switzerland has declared 26th May as
‘The Science Day’ in honor of Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam.
7.
India has more than 300,000 active
mosques. More than any country in the world, even the Muslim countries. About
15% of India’s population is Muslim.
8.
India has over 2 million Hindu Temples.
Undoubtedly, India can be called “the land of temples”.
9.
Just the holy city of Varanasi has over
23,000 temples.
10.
The Brihadeswara Temple is situated in
Tamil Nadu is the first granite temple of the world. It
was built in just five years during the 11th century.
11.
Indian Constitution is the longest in
the world. It contains around 146,000 words. It took 2 years, 11 months and 18
days to draft it, and was adopted on 26th January, 1950.
12.
There is a bill of rights for cows
written into the constitution.
13.
There are 22 official languages
designated by the Constitution of India.
14.
India has 28 states and 8 union
territories. (The size comparison of Indian states with different countries is
at the bottom of this page)
15.
Mawlynnong village, located in the state
of Meghalaya, and has been ranked as the cleanest village in Asia.
16. Shani Shingnapur Village has no locks or doors. Interestingly, no criminal act has been recorded for the almost 400 years.
17.
Mawsynram is the wettest place on Earth with 11,873 millimetres of rain annually.
18.
Madhopatti, a small village in Uttar
Pradesh, has created history by producing the most number of IAS officers. It
has given 47 officers to Indian administration. And is called the 'Officer's
Village of India'.
19.
The Karni Mata Temple in Rajasthan is
home to thousands of rats whom pilgrims consider to be their ancestors and
worship, making it one of the strangest attractions of India.
20.
India is home to the second largest pool
of engineers and scientists
21.
India is the second largest English
speaking country in the world. With approximately 125,226,449 English speakers.
22.
According to a 2021 report by the IMF,
India has a nominal GDP of $3.049 trillion making it the sixth biggest economy
in the world.
23.
India’s National Stock Exchange is
considered as the tenth biggest stock market in the world.
24.
Indian railway employs around 1.4 million
people.
25.
Indian Railways has world’s 4th longest
rail network.
26.
The Number of People Travelling in the
Indian Railways Every Day is Equal to the Total Population of Australia.
Unbelievable? Connecting more than 7,172 stations, the Indian Railways is the
largest rail network in Asia carrying over 23 million passengers daily in
12,617 trains.
27.
The Lifeline Express also known as the
Jeevan Rekha Express is the world's first hospital train taking its services
ranging from surgeries to cancer treatment to remote villages.
28.
India’s total area accounts for about
2.4 per cent of the total geographical area of the world.
29.
India is the 7th largest country in the
world.
30.
India’s total area accounts for about
2.4% of the total geographical area of the world.
31.
India has the biggest population of
vegetarians in the world.
32.
India has one of the world’s highest
rates of abortion.
33.
India has the lowest divorce rate in the
world.
34.
Indian Ocean is named after India.
Making it the only country in the world to have an entire ocean named after it.
35.
The Indian flag was designed by Pingali
Venkayya and was adopted on 22 July 1947.
36.
The city Montessori School, in Lucknow,
is the world’s largest school in terms of students with over 45,000 inductees.
37.
Amritsar’s Golden Temple serves free
meals to over 100,000 people daily, no matter their ethnicity, class, or creed.
38.
India is the world’s largest milk
producer, with 16 percent of global production, followed by the United States
of America, China, Pakistan, and Brazil.
39.
Indians consume the most whiskey of any
country; a whopping 50% of the entire world’s supply.
40.
India is the third-largest producer of
iron ore in the world.
41.
It has the fourth-largest deposits of
coal in the entire world.
42.
India ranks third in the world for the
most number of billionaires, behind the USA and China.
43.
Cricket is India’s most popular sport while
field hockey is its national sport.
44.
In 1987, the Indian cricket Fielder
Sachin Tendulkar crossed the field to play for Pakistan when the team was short
of players.
45.
India has the world’s highest cricket
ground which is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh. It is 2444 meters above sea level
and was built in 1983.
46.
In 1999, a goal was scored by India
against Bhutan in 11 seconds.
47.
Indian film industry “Bollywood” leads
the world with the largest number of films. Followed by “Nollywood” of Nigeria.
48.
India has the world’s largest attended
events. The biggest of which is ‘Kumbha Mela’.
49.
Kumbha Mela of 2001 was attended by
approximately 60 million people making it the largest human gathering, and was
also seen from space.
50.
Over 4700 daily newspapers are produced
in India, in more than 300 languages.
51.
India is the second-largest market of
newspapers in the world- over 100,000 publications and 1300 million readers.
52.
The largest wholesale spice market of
Asia is in New Delhi, India.
53.
India’s has the Second largest road network
in the world, with 4,865,000 km of roads constructed as per the reports of
2014.
54.
The roads in India are capable of being
wrapped around the world almost 120 times.
55.
Mahatma Gandhi is known as The Father of
the Nation.
56.
Mahatma Gandhi was nominated for the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1948, but due to his assassination, the award was not
given to anybody, in his honour.
57.
485 children dressed as Mahatma Gandhi
gathered and walked in Kolkata. The walk was a demonstration to attain peace in
the country and the world.
58.
Chess was invented in India.
59.
Bharat Ratna is the highest award in the
country.
60.
Apart from U.S. and Japan, only India
has built a supercomputer indigenously.
61.
Yoga originated from India and is still
in existence for over 5000 years.
62.
The concept of shampoo was first
invented in India when herbs were used for strengthening hair.
63.
Calculus, Trigonometry, and Algebra
originated in India.
64.
‘Zero’ in the number system was invented
by a mathematician named Aryabhatta from India.
65.
The decimal system and place value
system were developed in India around 100 B.C.
66.
Snakes and ladders – the game, was
invented in India in the 13th century by a poet saint Gyandev.
67.
Raziya Sultana, a prominent figure in
Indian history, was murdered in 1240 after being India’s first female leader.
68.
Indira Gandhi was the First and only
female Prime Minister of India to date.
69.
90 countries from all over the world buy
software from India.
70.
Takshila, the first ever university in
the world started around 700 BC in India.
71.
India is the place of origin of Buddhism
and Jainism.
72.
In the August of 1982, ‘the highest
bridge in the world’ – the Baily Bridge, was built by Indian Army.
73.
The World’s highest Rail Bridge is the Chenab
Bridge, in Jammu and Kashmir region of India.
74.
Bandra-Worli Sea Link has steel wires
equal to the Earth’s circumference. Each of the cables is capable of holding
900 tons of weight.
75.
More than 54 crore people voted in 2014
general elections. This is more than the entire population of the U.S., U.K.,
Japan, and Australia combined.
76.
Before the 18th century, India was one
of the richest countries in the world.
77.
India has the biggest population of
vegetarians in the world.
78.
An Indian restaurant in Bradford, U.K.
seats over 800 diners in an old Chapel. This restaurant, the Aakash, is the
largest Indian restaurant in the world.
79.
India is the world’s largest importer of
arms.
80.
India has never hosted the Olympic
Games.
81.
Indian Lotus is its national flower.
82.
The first mining of diamonds was done in
India.
83.
The Taj Mahal, one of the Seven Wonders
of the World, is in India.
84.
You would be amazed to know that the
concept of shampoo was first invented in India when herbs were used for strengthening
hair.
85.
India has a spa just for elephants.
86.
India is the largest gold buyer in the
world.
87.
It is illegal to carry Indian currency,
Rupee, outside of India.
88.
While tea is the most popular beverage
in India, the country is also its largest producer in the world.
89.
India has the fastest growing telecom
market in the world.
90.
It also has the cheapest telecom tariff
in the world.
91.
A world record was set in 2016 for
planting almost 50 million trees in 24 hours in India.
92.
Since 2004, a polling station is erected
in a forest for one voter, a temple priest, to cast his vote.
93.
Over 23,000 people speak a language
called ‘anal’ or Namfu in India and Burma.
94.
One Indian airline only hires female
hostesses to save on fuel due to their lesser weight.
95.
The Victoria Cross was granted to 38
Indians after WWII.
96.
India Imports:
crude
oil, precious stones, machinery, chemicals, fertilizer, plastics, iron and
steel.
97.
India Exports: petroleum
products, precious stones, vehicles, machinery, iron and steel, chemicals,
pharmaceutical products, cereals, apparel
98.
The total population of India is 1,326,572,000.
99. India shares a border with China, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh.
100. The internet country code for India is .in
101. The Indian rupee (INR) is the official currency of India.
COMPARISON OF INDIAN STATES TO COUNTRIES WITH SIMILAR LAND AREA
|
|
STATE |
AREA (KM2) |
COUNTRY WITH A SIMILAR LAND AREA |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1)
|
Rajasthan |
342,239 |
Republic of the
Congo |
|
2)
|
Madhya Pradesh |
308,245 |
|
|
3)
|
Maharashtra |
307,713 |
|
|
4)
|
Uttar Pradesh |
240,928 |
|
|
5)
|
Gujarat |
196,024 |
|
|
6)
|
Karnataka |
191,791 |
|
|
7)
|
Andhra Pradesh |
160,205 |
Tunisia |
|
8)
|
Odisha |
155,707 |
Bangladesh |
|
9)
|
Chhattisgarh |
135,191 |
Greece |
|
10) |
Tamil Nadu |
130,058 |
England |
|
11) |
Telangana |
112,077 |
Honduras |
|
12) |
Bihar |
94,164 |
Hungary |
|
13) |
West Bengal |
88,752 |
|
|
14) |
Arunachal Pradesh |
83,743 |
|
|
15) |
Jharkhand |
79,714 |
|
|
16) |
Assam |
78,438 |
|
|
17) |
Ladakh |
59,146 |
|
|
18) |
Himachal Pradesh |
55,673 |
|
|
19) |
Uttarakhand |
53,483 |
|
|
20) |
Punjab |
50,362 |
|
|
21) |
Haryana |
44,212 |
|
|
22) |
Jammu and Kashmir |
42,241 |
Netherlands |
|
23) |
Kerala |
38,863 |
Bhutan |
|
24) |
Meghalaya |
22,429 |
|
|
25) |
Manipur |
22,327 |
|
|
26) |
Mizoram |
21,081 |
|
|
27) |
Nagaland |
16,579 |
Eswatini |
|
28) |
Tripura |
10,486 |
|
|
29) |
Andaman and Nicobar
Islands |
8,249 |
|
|
30) |
Sikkim |
7,096 |
Brunei |
|
31) |
Goa |
3,702 |
|
|
32) |
Delhi |
1,483 |
Comoros |
|
33) |
Dadra and Nagar
Haveli and Daman and Diu |
603 |
|
|
34) |
Puducherry |
479 |
|
|
35) |
Chandigarh |
114 |
Liechtenstein |
|
36) |
Lakshadweep |
32 |
Tuvalu |
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