More than 1000 million people currently live in India

179 languages are spoken and more than 1000 dialects are in daily use

15 different alphabets are used

It has an area of 3 million square metres

Before its independence, India was also comprised of Pakistan and Bangladesh

The maximum distance from coast to coast is 3000 kilometres

The maximum distance from North to South is 3200 Kilometres

25 states and 7 self-governing (autonomous) territories form the Indian Union

It's the biggest democracy in the world

It's the biggest producer of films for internal use in the world

It possesses space and atomic technology

It's the Asian leader of computerware production

It has the largest number of bovine cattle in the word with more than 250 million heads

It's maybe the country where the most varied contrast can be found

Indian people's lives revolve around religion, or rather, religions