Facts about

India

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Area: total of 3,287,263 sq km

Area - Comparison:

slightly more than one-third the size of the US

Population:

1,166,079,217

Language:

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%

   Religion:

   Hindu 80.5%

   Muslim 13.4%

   Christian 2.3%

   Sikh 1.9%

   other 1.8%

* It is against the law to evangelize in India.

   Ethnic Groups:

   Indo-Aryan 72%

   Dravidian 25%

   Mongoloid & other 3%

 

    Poverty:

   25% is below the poverty average