India is situated in South-East Asia. The country shaped like a triangel is prodding out from the Himalays in the north into the Bay of Bengal in South. India shares a boder with Nepal, Bhutan in the north, Myanamar and Bangladesh in the north-east and Pakistan in the west.

Capital

New Delhi

Government

Federal republic - 28 states & 7 union territories

Population

1,049,700,118 (2003)

Area

3,287,590 sq. km

Languages

Hindi- National Language

English -language spoken by 50% of the people.

Other Language - Though India is believed to have 1652 mother languages but there are 33 languages spoken by people numbering over a hundred thousand. There are 22 different official Languages in the country among those Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Sanskrit are the prominent ones.

Currency

Indian rupee (1 Rs. equals 100 paisa)

The Flag

The Indian flag has three color combination saffron at the top, white in the middle and dark green at the bottom. In the middle of the white portion, there is a blue wheel that indicates the Dharma Chakra, the wheel of law. The wheel indicates that there is life in movement and death in stagnation. The dark saffron stands for courage and sacrifice, the white stands for peace and truth and the green for faith and fertility.

Climate

The climate is mainly tropical, with the biggest temperature variations in the north. The rain is dependent on the monsoon winds. The temperature follows the monsoon too .India has three major season:
Summer, Winter and monsoon.