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1. INDIA
KNOW YOUR COMMUNITY
KNOW YOUR WORLD
A PROGRAM OF GLOBAL TIES AKRON

2. COUNTRY MAP

3. BIG CITIES
USA:
• NY
• Chicago
• LA
• Washington
DC (Capital)
India:
•Mumbai
•Chennai
•Bangalore
•New Delhi
(Capital)

4. • Full name: India (Republic of India)
• Population: 1,609,640,114,212 (2022)
• National/Independence Day: January 26
• Capital: New Delhi (249,998 muni corp. pop.
32,066,000 metro pop.)
• Largest city: Mumbai (Bombay) 20,961,000
COUNTRY QUICK FACTS

5. COUNTRY QUICK FACTS
• Area: India's highest point is Kanchenjunga
which rises 28,208 ft. (8,598 m). Coastline:
4,349 miles (7,000 km)
• Land Area:
(land) 1,147,950 sq miles (2,973,193 sq km)
(water) 121,262 sq miles (314,070 sq km)
(TOTAL) 1,269,212 sq miles (3,287,263 sq
km)
• Latitude/Longitude (Absolute Locations)
New Delhi: (capital city) 28° 38' N, 77° 13' E
Kochi: 9° 55' N, 76° 16' E
Kolkata: 22° 34' N, 88° 21' E
Mumbai: 19° 4' N, 72° 52' E
Srinagar: 34° 5' N, 74° 47' E

6. • Major language: Hindi 41%, Bengali 8.1%, Telugu 7.2%, Marathi
7%, Tamil 5.9%, Urdu 5%, Gujarati 4.5%, Kannada 3.7%,
Malayalam 3.2%, Oriya 3.2%, Punjabi 2.8%, Assamese 1.3%,
Maithili 1.2%, other 5.9%
• Major religion: Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh
1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1%
• Ethnicity: Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other
3%
• Life expectancy: Male: 65 Female: 68 (http://www.who.int/)
COUNTRY QUICK FACTS

7. • Monetary unit: Rupees
• Main exports: software, petroleum products, chemicals,
pharmaceuticals, agriculture, textiles, steel,
transportation equipment, machinery, leather, cement,
mining, construction
• GDP total: $4.784 trillion (2012 est.)
• GDP per capita: $3,900 (2012 est.)
COUNTRY QUICK FACTS

8. LANDFORMS OR HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT
EVENTS

9. TAJ MAHAL

10. GOA BEACH

11. JAIPUR

12. GOVERNMENT
•LEADER: Narendra Modi - 15th and current Prime Minister of India, in
office since 26 May 2014. Modi, a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, was the
Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament
from Varanasi
•GOVERNMENT: India's is the world's largest democracy, and a
multi-lingual federal state. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
won 2014 elections by a landslide, replacing the long-governing secularist
Congress Party.(BBC.com)
•VOTING AGE: 18(Both men & Women can vote)

13. CURRENT EVENTS OR KEY ISSUES

14. RELIGION(S)
Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%,
Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%,
unspecified 0.1%

15. NATIONAL FESTIVALS-HOLIDAYS
EVENTS

16. FOOD
• North India
– Mainly Wheat
– Thali

17. FOOD
• South India
– Rice
– Dosa
– Idli
– Sambhar

18. CONTEMPORARY CUSTOMS- MUSIC - DANCE – SPORTS &
TRADITIONS

19. TRADITIONAL DRESS: WOMEN

20. TRADITIONAL DRESS: MEN

22. LINKS
Learn more- social media in their country- websites
with more info- music- city- travel:
http://know-your-world.org/India.html