People

Population: 1,095,351,995 (July 2006 estimate) (growth rate): 1.38% (2006 estimate)

Gdp: $4.042 trillion (2006 estimate) (per capita): $3,700 (2006 estimate)

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

Government

Capital: New Delhi

Government type: federal republic

Geography

Natural Resources: arable land, bauxite, chromite, coal (fourth-largest reserves in the world), diamonds, iron ore, limestone, manganese, mica, natural gas, petroleum, titanium ore