INDIA 2009 1. India is the 10th industrialized country in the world. 2.

. India is the 6th nation in the world to have gone into outer space to conquer nature for the benefit of the people. 3. India is the 7th largest country in the World. 4. India lies entirely in the northern hemisphere. 5. India measures 3,214 km from North to South. 6. India measures 2,933 km from east to west. 7. The mainland extends between latitudes 8 4 and 37 6 north. 8. 68 7 and 97 25 east longitudes. 9. Indias land frontier is about 15,200 km. 10. India has a common boarders with A. North-west: Afghanistan and Pakistan B. North: China, Bhutan and Nepal C. East: Myanmar D. East of West Bengal : Bangladesh 11. India is separated from Sri Lanka by a narrow channel of sea formed by the Palk Strait and the Gulf of Mannar. 12. The plains of the Ganga and the Indus are one of the worlds greatest stretches of flat alluvium and also one of the most densely populated areas on the earth. 13. Between Western Ghats and the Arabian sea lies a narrow coastal strip. 14. Between Eastern Ghats and Bay of Bengal there is a broader costal area. 15. Niligiri Hills is the point where the eastern and Western Ghats meets. 16. Cardamom hills lying beyond may be regarded as a continuation of Western Ghats. 17. The Indus, which is one of the greatest rivers of the world rises near manasarovar in Tibet and flows through India and thereafter through Pakistan and falls in Arabian Sea near kutch. 18. Tributaries of Indus: The Sutlej, the Beas, the Ravi, The Chenab and the Jhelum. 19. The Ganga-Brahmaputra_Meghana is another important system of which the principle sub basins are those of Bhagirathi and Alakanada join at Dev Prayag to form the Ganga. 20. The major east flowing rivers are Godavari, Krishna, cauvery, Mahanadi, etc. 21. The west flowing rivers Narmada, Tapti and Mahi. 22. The climate of India is tropical monsoon type. 23. South-West monsoon is the summer monsoon and wind blows from sea to land after crossing Indian ocean, the Arabian sea and the Bay of Bengal. 24. North-east monsoon is known as the winter monsoon and wind blows from land to sea. 25. Botanical survey of India (BSI) headquarters Kolkatta. 26. Zoological survey of India (ZSI) headquarters Kolkatta. 27. The tiger and lion belong to cat family. 28. The sale water crocodile is found along eastern coast and in the Andaman and Nicobar islands. 29. 2001 census was undertaken during 9-28 February 2001.

30. The census moment, the referral time at which the snapshot of the population is taken was 00.00 hours of March 1, 2001. 31. Until 1991 census, the sunrise of 1 March was taken as the census moment. 32. India accounts for a meager 2.4 percent of the worlds surface area. 33. India has 16.7 percent of World population. 34. The percent decadal growth of population in the inter-censal period 1991-2001 varies from a low of 9.43 in Kerala to a very high 64.53 in Nagland. 35. Population growth rate in AP during 2001 census 14.59. 36. The population density of India in 2001 was 324 per sq km. 37. West Bengal is the most thickly populated state with a population density of 903 in 2001. 38. Delhi is the city with highest population density with 9340. 39. Lowest population density is in Arunachal Pradesh with 13. 40. The density of population in AP 277. 41. Bihar second and Kerala third. 42. Sex ration in India 933. 43. Highest sex ration is kerala. 44. A person aged seven and above, who can both read and write with understanding in any language is treated as literate. 45. In the census prior to 1991 children below 5 years were necessarily treated as illiterates. 46. The literacy rate in the country is 64.84 percent. 75.26 for males and 53.67 for females. 47. kerala retained its position by being on top with a 90.86 percent literacy rate, closely followed by Mizoram with 88.80 percent. 48. Highest male and female literacy state Kerala. 49. Bihar with a literacy rate of 47 percent ranks last in the country. 50. Lowest male and female literacy state Bihar. 51. AP literacy rate 60.47. 52. AP male literacy rate 70.32. 53. AP female literacy rate 50.43. 54. 743 million people in India live in rural areas as per the 2001 census. 55. 286 million people in India live in urban areas. 56. Highly populated state in India is UP with 166,197,921 people and it constitutes 16.16 percent of the total. 57. Lowest population is in Sikkim with 540,851 people and constitutes 0.05 percent of the total. 58. AP 76,210,007 constitutes 7.41 percent of the total and stands at number 5 position after UP, Maharastra, Bihar and West Bengal.

1. The ratio of width of the flag to its length is 2 to 3. 2. The Chakra has 24 spokes. 3. The design of the National Flag was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India on July 22, 1947.

4. The Flag code of India, 2002, has taken effect from January 26, 2002 and supercedes the Flag code Indias as it existed. 5. There shall be no restriction on the display of the National Flag by the members of general public private organizations, educational institutions, etc. 6. The state emblem is an adoption from the saranath Lion capital of Ashoka. In the sate emblem as adopted on January 26, 1950 only 3 lions are visible and the 4th one is hidden. The wheel appears in the center of the abacus with a bull on the right and a horse on the left and the outlines of other wheels on extreme right and left. 7. The words Satyameva Jayate from Mundaka Upanishad meaning Truth Alone Triumphs are inscribed below the abacus in Devanagari script. 8. The song Jana-gana-mana, composed originally in Bengali by Rabindranath Tagore, was adopted in its Hindi version as National Anthem on January 24, 1950. It was first sung on December 27, 1911 at the Calcutta session of the INC. 9. The National song Vande Mataram, composed in Sanskrit by Bankimchandra Chatterji, was a source of inspiration to the people in their struggle for freedom. It has an equal status with the National Anthem. The first political occasion when it was sung was the 1896 session of the INC. 10. The National calendar is based on saka era, with Chaitra as its first month and a normal year of 365 days was adopted from March 22, 1957 with Gregorian calendar. 11. National Animal: The magnificent tiger, panthaera tigris. 12. National Bird: The Indian peacock, pavo cristatus. 13. National Flower: Lotus (Nelumbo Nucipera Gaertn). 14. National Tree: The Banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis). 15. National Fruit: Mango (Manigifera indica). 16. National River: Ganges 17. N-E states are called Seven sisters. (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura).