Presentation of India : Geography

Country's official name :

India

Capital:

New Delhi

Population of main cities including suburbs:

Delhi (22,400,000) ; Mumbai (22,300,000) ; Calcutta (16,000,000) ; Chennai (8,050,000) ; Bangalore (7,600,000) ; Hyderabad (7,350,000)

Area:

3,287,260 km²

Type of Climate :

India has broadly three seasons: warm, wet and cool. Heat begins to rise in the plains of the North in February and becomes unbearable in April - May. The monsoon appear towards the end of May in the South, then heads to the North, then covers the whole country in the first week of July till the end of October. There are even some cold nights in December - January. The extreme South remains warm all year long.

Autumn and Winter are undoubtedly the best times to visit India.

Local Time:

It is %T:%M %A In New Delhi

Summer Time Period :

None

Official Language:

Hindi (spoken by more than 50% of the country’s population) and English.

Other Languages Spoken:

17 regional languages are recognized by the Constitution of India, which include Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Punjabi, Telegu, Kannada, Malayalam and Marathi. Muslims largely speaks Urdu.

Business Language(s):

English

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