While doing some reading for my upcoming move to India, I came across these "big" statistics.
- India is the 7th largest country in the world - about the size of Europe combined and 1/3 the size of the US
- India is the 2nd most populous country in the world, with over 1 billion people (1,147,000 – 2008 estimate). This includes a birth every 1.2 seconds
- While it has the 2nd largest growing economy and is 4th largest in purchasing power, it still suffers from large numbers of malnutrition, poverty and illiteracy.
- It is the world's largest tea producer, 3rd for milk and tobacco, 4th for wheat, coal, nitrogen fertilizers
- There are 95 peaks above 24,600 feet (7,500 meters)
- It has the wettest place on earth (Mawsynram), with over 467 inches (11,873 mm) of rain each year - 10x more than New York and 20x more than London
- By contrast, the Thar Desert is about twice the size of Bangladesh.
- India is the world's largest democracy
4 comments:
Interesting again, love your photography
Thank you, Jose. These photos are actually part of Creative Commons (as cited). I will be leaving for India in 10 days, so be sure to come back and see my posts with photos then. It should be such a different experience!
Hi, Melissa! As you well know, variations on this kind of vehicle abound here, and I am going to photograph as many as I can and make a photo show... :<)
Hi Melissa, you seem to be doing a lot of reading before your move... the only advice I have is to praphrase Shashi Tharoor, a former Undersecretary General of the UN: "Whatever you say about India, the opposite is also true".
I still get surpised about the country!
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