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Country Profile
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Geography
Location
Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and Pakistan.
Climate
Varies from tropical monsoon in south to temperate in north
Government Type
Federal Republic
Capital
New Delhi
People
Population
1,129,866,154 (July 2007 est.)
Life Expectancy at Birth
total population: 68.59 years
male: 66.28 years
female: 71.17 years (2007 est.)
Ethnic Groups
Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% (2000)
Religions
Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% (2001 census)
Languages
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
Currency
Indian rupee (INR)
Communications
There is telephone, cellular phone, radio, television and internet access
Transportation
India has 63,221 km of railways, 3,383,344 km of roadways (1,603,705 km of which are paved), 341 airports (243 with paved runways). India has ports and terminals at Chennai, Haldia, Jawaharal Nehru, Kandla, Kolkata (Calcutta), Mumbai (Bombay), New Mangalore, and Vishakhapatnam.