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.) 

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