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Published: 06 Oct 2008 17:41:46 PST

Capital: New Delhi

Population

Total Population (million): 1123.31899142
Annual growth rate: 1,606% (2007 est.)%
Density: 345 habitants/ square km.inhab./km²
Urban population: 28,7%%
Ethnic Origins: Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and Others 3%
Official Language: Hindi (spoken by more than 50% of the country’s population) and English.
Other languages spoken: 17 regional languages are recognized by the Constitution of India, which include Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Punjabi, Telegu, Kannada, Malayalam and Marathi. Muslims largely speaks Urdu.
Business language: English
Religion: Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1%.

Country overview

Area: 3287260 km²
Type of State: India is a federal Republic state based on parliamentary democracy.
Type of economy: Low-income economy, Emerging Financial Market
Second greatest population and largest liberal democracy in the world. Importance of agriculture and the IT sector in the economy.

Telecommunication

Telephone code:
To call from India, dial 00
To call in India, dial 91
Internet suffix: .in
Computers: 1.5
Telephone lines:
Internet users:
Access to electricity: n.c.

Source: FITA

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