Travel Guide, India
More than a thousand languages and dialects, endless varieties of cuisines and habits make India truly incredible!
India is one of the most diverse countries in the world with great differences between all areas of this vast land. India is not vast by pure size, India is vast in races, religions, traditions, buildings, landscape and nature.
India is an adventure - as you find smiles and surprises and a 'non tourist' feeling everywhere. And once you step out of the tourist trails you will experience wonders which you find nowhere else than in 'incredible India!'
India is one of the most diverse countries in the world with great differences between all areas of this vast land. India is not vast by pure size, India is vast in races, religions, traditions, buildings, landscape and nature.
India is an adventure - as you find smiles and surprises and a 'non tourist' feeling everywhere. And once you step out of the tourist trails you will experience wonders which you find nowhere else than in 'incredible India!'
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Fast Facts
- When to go: All year round
- Population: 1,166,079,220 inhabitants
- Tourists per year: 4,000,000
- Area: 3,287,590 km2
- Language(s): 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 associate status but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication; Hindi is the most widely spoken language and primary tongue of 41% 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 (2001 census)
- Altitude (in meters): 0
- Telephone code (prefix): 0091
- Per capita income (USD/year): 941
- Major exports: petroleum products, textile goods, gems and jewelry, engineering goods, chemicals, leather manufactures
- Major imports: crude oil, machinery, gems, fertilizer, chemicals
- http://www.incredibleindia.org/
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