The Republic of India occupies most of the Indian subcontinent in South Asia. It is bordered by China to the northeast, Pakistan to the west, Nepal and Bhutan to the north, and Burma and Bangladesh to the east.
The country is divided into three distinct geographical regions: the Himalayan region in the north, which contains some of the highest mountains in the world; the Gangetic Plain and Plateau region in the south and central parts. Its three major river systems, the Ganges, the Indus and the Brahmaputra, have extensive deltas, all rising into the Himalayas.
Currency : Rupee
Official name : Bharat
Languages : 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% Note: English enjoys subsidiary official language status, but is the most important language for national, political and business communication; Hindi is the most widely spoken language and the main language of 41% of the population; there are 14 other official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi and Sanskrit.
Ethnicity : Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and others 3%
Religion : Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, others 1.8%
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