Top 10 surprising facts about India

9/27/2017

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Geography Story: Top 10 surprising facts about India

India is a mysterious country of hundreds of languages, delicious exotic food and the most atmospheric railways in the world. Today you can take a closer look at India's rich and fantastic culture.

As it turns out, Indian people are fond of breaking all records..

#1: According to some researches, India is going to overtake China and become the most populous country on the planet by 2022

What do you think of that?

#2: More than 400 languages are spoken in the country.

Some people believe Indians have a natural ability to succeed in several languages. How many official languages does your country have? In India, there is an official language for each of the 29 states! And each one is different... Can you imagine?

#3: The population of some Indian cities is bigger than that of some countries

23 million of people live in New Delhi. Another 23 million of people are the residents of Mumbai. Still not surprised? Imagine that 24 million of people live in Australia! And the population of Ireland is, for example, only 4 million of people.

#4: The first rocket launched by Indian Scientists was transported on a bicycle. And it reached the stars!

Later the rockets got bigger and heavier, so they weren't delivered to the launch site this way. Anyway, the bicycle episode became history.

#5: There is a post office floating on the water in India

It was opened in 2011 on the Srinagar’s Dal lake. By the way, India's postal network is one of the largest on the planet.

#6: Guess where one of the biggest families in the world is from...

#7: India is both the largest consumer and producer of Mangoes on the planet

Indians annually produce approximately 18 millions of tons of mangoes! Everybody in India loves mangoes regardless of their age, race or gender.

#8: India breaks records even in breaking records!

India is the Third Highest Ranker in breaking records amongst all the countries of the world!

#9: Just take a look at the longest mustache on Earth grown by an Indian man:

#10: 100 million years ago India was an island, which then collided with Asia and formed Himalayas, creating the world's highest mountain range

Geography Story: #10: 100 million years ago India was an island, which then collided with Asia and formed Himalayas, creating the world's highest mountain range — wikipedia CC BY

So, to some extent, India gave birth to the world's highest mountain, which is also record-breaking!

What do you think of this amazing country? Have you ever been there? Or would you like to visit?

Which fact about India surprised you the most? If you have more facts about India to share with us, please tell us in the comments!

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72 Comments

John Coppinger

They are Third in production of movies. 98 percent of all spelling bees are won by Indians.

Barbara Griscom

Very interesting. I have always wanted to visit India. Maybe some day.....

Satish Chandran

Tamil language is the oldest language followed by Sanskrit. I love India.

Gill Custance

Barbara Griscom, beautiful country, lovely people

sfisher

Which star did it reach?

naresh varma

Humberto Carrasco, India is a subcontinent with many races & uniquely caste as well as class differences. Sadly these differences cause discrimination, regardless of where they exist.

naresh varma

Satish Chandran, other way round- & not even a smidgen of doubt about it.

naresh varma

John Coppinger, surely 1st

Elsy O. Stromberg

Humberto Carrasco, THAT'S ONE THING.

Elsy O. Stromberg

I hope they're encouraging birth control. Way too many people and way too much poverty. Not on my list of places I'd like to visit.

Chris Brown

I think they have already taken the population gold medal from China earlier this year.

Doris Dallaire

I think they should spend more time practicing birth control. Just too many people!

garrett scott

The hyperbole used in the commentary is misleading at best. Some of the commentary may well be untrue.

bina sarmah

Teresa Atwood, All highly educated ppl have limited family members, poor and uneducated ppl give recreate more. Another reason, neighboring country ppl migrate to India all the time, since India has more opportunities than those countries.