THE INDIA

Languages Spoken

• Hindi
• Bengali
• Telugu
• Marathi
• Tamil
• Urdu
• Gujarati
• Kannada
• Malayam
• Odia
• Punjabi
• Assamese
• Maithili
• Bhili
• Santhali
• Kashmiri
• Nepali
• Gondi
• Sindhi
• Konkani
• Dogri
• Khandeshi
• Kurukh
• Tulu
• Manipuri
• Bodo
• Khasi
• Mundari
• Ho

SOME FACTS ON THE CAPITAL (NEW DELHI)

• New Delhi is home to world’s tallest brick minaret: Qutub Minar (73m).
• New Delhi has an International Museum of Toilets having details of the historic evolution of toilets from 2500 BC to date.
• After Kenya’s Nairobi, New Delhi is said to be the world’s second most bird-rich capital city.
• In May 2014, New Delhi was announced as the most polluted city in the world by the World Health Organization

MAJOR CITIES IN INDIA

• 1 New Delhi 46,000,000 2 Mumbai 20,800,000 3 Kolkata 14,700,000 4 Bangalore 10,600,000 5 Pune 10,100,000 6 Hyderabad 9,700,000 7 Chennai 7,000,000 8 Ahmedabad 6,400,000 9 Visakhapatnam 5,300,000 10 Surat 4,600,000 11 Jaipur 3,000,000 12 Kanpur 2,920,000 13 Lucknow 2,900,000 14 Nagpur 2,500,000 15 Ghaziabad

India has a population of 1.3 billion which is a third of Asia as a whole

MAJOR LANDFORMS OF INDIA

• The Himalayas
• Ganges River
• Thar Desert
• Andaman Islands

MAJOR RELIGIONS

• Christianity
• Sikhism
• Buddhism
• Jainism
• Islam
• Hinduism

THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

The President of India Ram Nath Kovind,was elected in July 25 2017.

Some traditional sports played in India are kabbadi, kho kho, pehlwani, and gilli-danda football, rugby union, cricket, golf, tennis, squash, hockey, Javelin throw, boxing, snooker, and billiards

TOURIST SITES

• Taj Mahal, this beautiful site was built in1631 and took 20,000 workmen 22 years to complete.
• The Ellora caves, The famous monumental Ellora Caves were built between the 5th and 10th centuries by Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu monks
• Agra fort, Built as a military structure in 1565 by Emperor Akbar with later additions by Shah Jahan, the stunning Agra Fort is an interesting mix of both Hindu and Muslim influences