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myINDIA................Know Your Nation in Nutshells
by mohammed ahmed on Jun 07, 2007 01:46 PM


HISTORY / GEOGRAPHY.....................

Old Tropical Civilisation      
Majority Plain / Fertile Land       
5000 yr old civilisation       
Veda-Budha-Sufi ism Culture      
Aryan invasion, Asoka,      
Dynastic Rule, MuslimRule,      
British Rule upto 1947      


Size: Km x Km      
Max.length......      3300
Max.breadth.....      3300
A rea      .......... 30 lac km2
Border       .........10,000 km
sea shore      ...... 4,000 km
      

Resources      
Fertile Land(km2)....... 20 lac
(lakh hect)............. 2,000
Rivers(No.)...........      40
Wet Land...............       1500 lac hect
Minerals : ....Iron, mica, Aluminium      
....... Copper, Zinc, etc      
      

Fuels :
Coal      ..........Lim. Reserve
Oil &Gas (mTe/yr)......      32 mTn/yr
U & Th ............(Promising for India)       .......Enough Reserve for 100 yr

Cultures:      
Office Languages =..... 18
Dialects : Major=........300;..... total=..1600      
Regionals :
Bengal / Uriya / N.E.,       
UP / Bihar, MP /Rajasthan,       
Punjab / HP, Kashmir / Laddakh      
Gujrat, Maratha, Telegu, Tamil,       
Malyali, Kannad, etc      
      


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