Background: The Complexity that is India
Country at a Glance
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Size |
3,287,263 sq km (slightly more than a third of the size of the United States) |
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Climate |
Tropical monsoon in the south and temperate in the north |
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Capital |
New Delhi |
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Political structure |
Sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic |
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Leader |
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh |
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Official languages |
Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, and Sanskrit |
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Other languages spoken |
English is a subsidiary official language |
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Population |
1,189,172,906 (July 2011 est.) ... |
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