- National name Bharat (Hindi)/India; Bharatiya Janarajya (unofficial)/Republic of India
- Area 3,166,829 sq km/1,222,713 sq mi
- Capital New Delhi
- Currency rupee
- Population 1,096,917,000 (2005 est)
- Language Hindi, English, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu (all official), more than 1,650 dialects
- Religion Hindu 80%, Sunni Muslim 10%, Christian 2.5%, Sikh 2%, Buddhist, Jewish
- Time difference GMT +5.5
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