15 Interesting facts about India
The name ‘India’ is derived from the river Indus. It is a valley around which people settled in earlier times.
India is the world’s oldest, largest and continuous civilization – the Indus Valley civilization.
India is also one of the largest democracies in the world.
India has the largest postal system in the world with more than 150,000 post offices, which is thrice the size of that of China.
India has more than 300,000 active mosques. This outnumbers any other country in the world, even the Muslim countries.
The second largest pool of engineers and scientists is from India.
India is the second largest English speaking country in the world – 125,226,449 numbers of English speakers.
Indian railway employs more than a million people, making it the largest employers in the world.
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A locomotive from the Indian Railways.
India is the 7th largest country in the world and the largest democracy.
The City Montessori School, in Lucknow, is the world’s largest school in terms of students with over 45,000 inductees.
India is the world’s largest milk producer, with 16 percent of global production, followed by the United States of America, China, Pakistan, and Brazil.
India leads the world with the largest number of films.
Over 4700 daily newspapers in more than 300 languages are produced in India.
The largest wholesale spice market of Asia is in India – Khari Baoli, New Delhi.
India’s road network is the world’s second largest with 4,865,000 km of roads constructed. (2014)
