Full country
name: Republic of India.
Area: 3.28
million sq km.
Population:
1 billion.
Capital City:
New Delhi.
Currency:
Indian Rupee.
People: 72%
Indo-Aryan, 25% Dravidian, 3% other.
Language:
Hindi, Gujarati, Urdu, Telugu, Marathi, Malayalam,
Kashmiri, Bengali, Tamil, English.
Religion:
80% Hindu, 14% Muslim, 2.4% Christian, 2% Sikh, 0.7%
Buddhist, 0.5% Jains, 0.4% other.
Government:
Federal Republic
Major
Industries: Textiles, chemicals, food processing,
steel, transportation equipment, cement, mining,
petroleum, machinery, rice, wheat, oilseed, cotton,
jute, tea, sugarcane, potatoes, cattle, water buffalo,
sheep, goats, poultry, fish.
Major Trading
Partners: US, Hong Kong, UK, Japan, Germany,
Belgium, Saudi Arabia.
Climate/Temperature: It is possible to identify
seasons, although these do not occur uniformly
throughout South Asia. The Indian Meteorological Service
divides the year into four seasons: the relatively dry,
cool winter from December through to February; the dry,
hot summer from March through to May; the southwest
monsoon from June through to September when the
predominating southwest maritime winds bring rains to
most of the country; and the northeast, or retreating,
monsoon of October and November.
