India Country Profile

India

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Area
	3.3 million sq km (1.2 million sq mi)

Capital
	New Delhi

Nationality
	Indian

Population
	1.19 billion

Languages
	Hindi is the national language and primary tongue of 40% of the people; there are 14 other official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, and Sanskrit; English enjoys associate status but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication

Religions
	Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1%

Literacy
	61%

Gross National Income (per capita)
	US$ 1,220 (WorldBank)

Currency
	Indian rupee (INR); 46 rupees = 1 US$

Climate
	varies from tropical monsoon in south to temperate in north

Exports—commodities
	textile goods, gems and jewelry, engineering goods, chemicals, leather manufactures

	All data (except GNI) taken from CIA World Factbook

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