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South Asia: geography - countries - cities / India: information - history - figures of the 20th century |
Oceans and seas |
| 1 Indian Ocean | |
| 2 Arabian Sea | |
| 3 Bay of Bengal | |
| Rivers | |
| 4 Indus | |
| 5 Ganges | |
| 6 Brahmaputra | |
| Mountains | |
| 7 Himalayas | |
| 8 Mount Everest (8,848 m) |
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1 India | 1,210 m |
| 2 Pakistan | 182 m | |
| 3 Afghanistan | 31 m | |
| 4 China | 1,350 m | |
| 5 Nepal | 26 m | |
| 6 Bhutan | 0.7 m | |
| 7 Bangladesh | 150 m | |
| 8 Myanmar | 61 m | |
| 9 Sri Lanka | 20 m | |
| 10 Maldives | 0.3 m |
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1 Mumbai | 12.5 m |
| 2 Karachi | 11.1 m | |
| 3 Delhi | 11.0 m | |
| 4 Bangalore | 8.4 m | |
| 5 Dhaka | 7.1 m | |
| 6 Hyderabad | 6.8 m | |
| 7 Lahore | 6.7 m | |
| 8 Yangon | 6.1 m | |
| 9 Kolkata | 4.5 m | |
| 10 Islamabad | 1.1 m |
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Area: 3,287,263 square km |
| Population: 1,210,193,422 inhabitants | |
| Capital: New Delhi | |
| Currency: Rupee | |
| Official languages: Hindi and English | |
| Religions : Hinduism 82%, Islam 12%, Christianism 2,3%, Sikhism 2%, Buddhism 0,8%, Jainism 0,4% |
| National bird | National animal | National flower |
| Peacock | Tiger | Lotus |
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| -3000/-1500: Indus Valley
Civilization (Bronze Age) -1500/-800: Vedism (Iron Age) -800 BC/1000: Rise and classical period of Hinduism 1000/1500: Establishment of Islam 1500/1857: Mughal dynasties and arrival of European explorers 1858: The British take control of India, which becomes "the Jewel in the Crown" of the Empire. 1947 (15th August): Independence of India, partition between India with a Hindu majority and Pakistan with a Muslim majority. 1971: Bangladesh separates from Pakistan. |
 The Taj Mahal is a white marble mausoleum located in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan between 1632 and 1653 in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal. |
| Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) Leader of the Independence movement against British rule. (assassinated) |  |
P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) Prime Minister from 1991 to 1996 |  |
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Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) Prime Minister from 1947 to 1964 (died in office) |  |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (born 1924) Prime Minister in 1996 and from 1998 to 2004 | |
| Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) Prime Minister from 1966 to 1977 and from 1980 to 1984 (daughter of the former) (assassinated) |  |
Manmohan Singh (born 1932) Prime Minister from 2004 to 2014 |  |
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Rajiv Gandhi (1944–91) Prime Minister from 1984 to 1989 (son of the former) (assassinated) |  |
Narendra Modi (born 1950) Prime Minister since 2014 |