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Capital - New Delhi
Language - English enjoys associate status but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication; Hindi is the national language and primary tongue of 30% of the people; there are 14 other official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, and Sanskrit; Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India but is not an official language
Population - 1,129,866,154 (July 2007 est.)
Geography - total: 3,287,590 sq km
Area-comparative - slightly more than one-third the size of the US
Climate - varies from tropical monsoon in south to temperate in north
Religion - Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% (2001 census)
Ethnic Groups - Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% (2000)
Life expectations - total population: 68.59 years
male: 66.28 years
female: 71.17 years (2007 est.)
Literacy - definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 59.5%
male: 70.2%
female: 48.3% (2003 est.)
Government type - federal republic
Exports - Oil Exports: 350,000 bbl/day (2005 est.)
$112 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)
Export Commodities - textile goods, gems and jewellery, engineering goods, chemicals, leather manufactures
GDP per capita - $3,700 (2006 est.)
Natural Ressources coal (fourth-largest reserves in the world), iron ore, manganese, mica, bauxite, titanium ore, chromites, natural gas, diamonds, petroleum, limestone, arable land
Natural Hazards - droughts; flash floods, as well as widespread and destructive flooding from monsoonal rains; severe thunderstorms; earthquakes