- Area
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- 3.3 million square
kilometers
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- Geographical location
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- Lies between latitudes 8 °
4' and 37 ° 6 ' north and longitudes 68 ° 7 ' and 97 ° 25'
east
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- Coastline length
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- 7,600 km
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- Languages
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- 17 major languages, 844
dialects
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- Major religions
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- Hinduism, Islam,
Christianity, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism
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- National anthem
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- Jan gana mana written by Rabindranath
Tagore
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- National emblem
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- Replica of the Lion Capital
of Sarnath
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- National flag
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- Horizontal tricolor in equal
proportion of deep saffron on the top, white in the middle
and dark green at the bottom. In the center of the white
band is a wheel in navy blue colour.
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- National animal
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- Tiger, Panthera tigris
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- National bird
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- Peacock
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- National flower
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- Lotus
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- National tree
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- Banyan
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- National fruit
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- Mango
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National currency |
Rupees
(One Rupees=100 paise) |
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Political structure
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- India
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- Sovereign, Socialist,
Secular, Democratic Republic
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- The Indian Union
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- 28 States and seven
centrally administered
- Union Territories
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- Form of government
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- Parliamentary, based on
universal adult franchise
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- Legislature
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- Parliament, consists of
President and the two Houses, known as Rajya Sabha (Council
of States) and Lok Sabha (House of the People )
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- Executive
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- Consists of President,
Vice-President and Council of Ministers led by the Prime
Minister
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- Judiciary
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- Independent of executive
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