INDIA : At a Glance

• Capital: New Delhi
 
• Area - 32,87,263 km 
• (seventh place in the wprld 2.42% of the world. 1,20,849 km excluding which is occupied by china and pakistan.)

• Boundaries -
 
(1) Land : China,Nepal and Bhutan in the north, Myanmar and Bangladesh in the East, separated by hilly ranges. pakistan and afghanistan in the west.
 
(2) Sea : Arabian sea in the west, Indian ocean in the South and Bay of Bengal in the East. 
 
• Distance East to West : 2933 km.
 
• Distance North to South : 3214 km.
 
• Sea boundary including islands : 7516.6 km.
 
• Land boundary : 15,200 km.
 
• Forested area : (2005 Report) 6,77,088 km(2) (20.60% of the total Geographical area).
 
• Percentage of World Population : 16.44% 

Written by Sandeep Gurjar

Editor: Maulik Dave

Indian Government 2

President : Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil

Vice President :  Mohammad Hamid Ansari

Finance Minister : Pranab Mukherjee

Foreign Minister :  S. M. Krishna

Agriculture Minister :  Sharad Pawar

Aviation Minister: Prafu Patel

Telecom Minister :  A. Raja

Defense Minister : A. K. Antony

Home Minister :  P. Chidambaram

Sports Minister : Dr. M. S. Gill

Indian Government

Prime Minister :  Dr. Manmohan Sigh
                                (Most Qualified Prime Minister of the world)
                                 BA (Hons. Economics), MA (Economics), DPhil (Oxford), DLitt (Honoris Causa),
                                PhD thesis on India's export competitiveness.
                                Wright's Prize at St John's College, Cambridge,
                                Wrenbury scholar, University of Cambridge


Compare with 44th USA President :  Barack Hussein Obama
                                                            B.A. (International Relations), J.D (Harvard Law School)

Animals

• The biggest mammal is the blue whale, 30m long and weighting 150,000 kg.

• The biggest of all the mammals on the land are elephants which can grow upto 4m tall and weight 7,000 kg.

• Elephants live longer than all mammals apart from man, surviving up till the age of 80 in captivity.

• Elephants in Africa are much bigger than Asia.

Amazing Factfinder

An atom is so tiny that two billion would fit on the dot on the top of the ' i '

Measurements:

             1000 pico-meters = 1 nano meter

             1000 nano-meters= 1 micro meter

             1000 micro meters = 1 mm

                      10 mm        = 1cm

                    100 cm         = 1 meter

                  1000 meter     = 1 km

      9,460,000 million km = 1 light year 

GK Questions & Answers -1

1. The longest river of the world. - Nile

2. The longest highway of the world - Trans-Canada

3. The longest highway has the lenght - About 8000 km

4. The highest mountain in the world - Mt. Everest

5. The biggest Desert of the world - Sahara Desert

6. The largest coffee growing country - Brazil

7. The country known as "Copper Country"- Zambia

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