Official name: Republic of India

Geographic coordinates: 20° 00 N, 77° 00 E

Land area: 2,973,190 sq km

Total area: 3,287,590 sq km

Population: 1,027,015,248

Government: Federal Republic

President: Pratibha Patil

Prime Minister: Manmohan Singh

Languages: English and Hindi (official), Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanscrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu

Capital city: New Delhi

Largest city: Mumbai

Religion: Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% (2001 census)

Currency: Indian rupee (₨) (INR)

Race: Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% (2000)

Literacy rate: 61% (2001)

Independence Day: 15th August (1947)

Republic Day: 26th January (1950)

Time zone: (UTC +5:30)

Country calling code: +91

Internet TLD: .in