India is the largest democratic country in South Asia bordered with Pakistan, Nepal, China, and Bangladesh. As estimation puts that the population of India has crossed 1-billion. There are diversities in India as big as its geography is. There are mountainous region, sunny beaches, thick forest, vibrant culture, festivals, arts and architecture, old buildings, beautiful temples and many more to explore, because of such diversity, India has been one of the best tourism destinations in the world and therefore millions of tourists make it to India. Economically and industrially India has challenged to the world giant and so called developed nations and therefore, India has been the attraction of the world.

India is a unique country of having incredible tales to tell, culture, festivities, numerous of adventurous sports, wildlife, lofty beaches, flora and faunas, arts and artifacts and there are are a number of sacred sites, monuments and several castles. these are awaiting to explore from Himanchal Pradesh to Garhwal, Darjeeling to Sikkim, the famous beaches in Goa, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and the beautiful city of Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai having best connectivity with the world attracts millions of tourists every year. There is no doubt that India is the country for exploring its wealth of sights, cultural excitements, arts and religion and many more to explore and no doubt there are mountain range offering the breath taking scenes to river rafting, trekking in the mountainous range and many more. These all make you feel to come to India time and again.

India in brief

President: Pratibha Patil (2007)
Land area: 3,287,590 sq km)
Population: (2010 estimation): 1,173,108,018
Capital: New Delhi
Largest cities: Bombay (Mumbai), Calcutta (Kolkata), Bangalore, Madras (Chennai), Ahmedabad; Hyderabad, Kanpur to name a few.
Monetary unit: Rupee
National name: Bharat
Principal languages: Hindi 30 percent, English, Bengali, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Kannada, Assamese, Sanskrit, Sindhi (all official); Hindi/Urdu; 1,600+ dialects
Ethnicity/race: Indo-Aryan 72 percent, Dravidian 25 percent, Mongoloid and other 3 percent.
Religions: Hindu 81 percent, Islam 13 percent, Christian 2 percent, Sikh 2 percent.