Basic facts about India
| Country name: | India |
| Capital: | New Delhi |
| Country code: | 293 |
| Continent: | South Asia |
| Currency name: | Indian rupee |
| Independence: | 1947-08-15 00:00:00 |
| Independent from: | from the UK |
| Total area (km2): | 3,287,263 |
| Land area (km2): | 2,973,193 |
| Water area (km2): | 314,070 |
| Population: | 1,220,800,359 |
| Population note: | 1,220,800,359 (July 2013 est.) |
| Official language: | Hindi English |
| All languages: | Hindi 41%, Bengali 8.1%, Telugu 7.2%, Marathi 7%, Tamil 5.9%, Urdu 5%, Gujarati 4.5%, Kannada 3.7%, Malayalam 3.2%, Oriya 3.2%, Punjabi 2.8%, Assamese 1.3%, Maithili 1.2%, other 5.9% note: English enjoys the status of subsidiary official language but is |
| Time zone: | IST (UTC+05:30) - Summer (DST) not observed (UTC+05:30) |
| Date format: | dd-mm-yyyy (CE) |
| Drive on: | left |
| Calling code: | +91 |
| Domain: | .in |