25 Amazing and Interesting Facts about India | Facts-Site

India is the Biggest diversity country in the world. There are infinite facts of India. However we have put 25 interesting facts about India !

 Facts about India

1. India is the world's largest democracy, with the number of 1.2 billion people.
2. India has more number of people using the internet than the entire population of the U.S.
3. Many brides in India use the "Bichiya": as a wedding ring for the toe.
4. India's Golden Temple feeds a vegetarian meal nearly 100,000 people a day regardless of religion, race and class.
5. 70% of all the world's spices are comes from India.
6. India is the third largest population of Muslims in the world.
7. India was the first country to develop techniques of extraction and purifying of sugar. Many visitors learnt the refining and cultivation of sugar from abroad in India. 
8. The father of India's missile programme once visited Switzerland back in 2006. Upon his arrival, On that day 26th May Switzerland declared as Science Day
9. Shampoo was invented in India, not any kind of commercial liquid ones but the method by use of herbs. The word we use to say 'shampoo' itself has been derived from the Sanskrit word champu, which meant by to massage.
10. India has more number of mobile phones than toilets.
11. India's Hindu calendar has 6 different seasons that is spring, summer, monsoon, autumn, winter and prevernal.
12. 100 million people every year come to India's Kumbh Mela Festival, leads to the world's biggest gathering of humans.
13. The national animal of India is Bengal Tiger.
14. In India about 1 in 100 marriages end in divorce, which is one of the lowest rates in the world.
15. Indian housewives holds about 11% of the World's Gold. That is more than the reserves of the IMF, Switzerland, U.S. and Germany put together.
16. India has more population than the whole Western Hemisphere of Earth.
17. India has more mosques over (300,000 mosques) than any other country in the world.
18. India is second largest English speaking country in the world.
19. India has Largest number of vegetarian eating people in the world
20. Elephants receive food, bath and even massages at the Punnathoor Cotta Elephant Yard Rejuvenation Centre in the state of Kerala. Now that's a BIG step for the country.
21. The first rocket was so light and small that was transported on a bicycle to the Launching Station at Thumba in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
22. India has won all the 5 Kabaddi World Cups of Mens held till now and have been undefeated throughout these tournaments. Also The Indian women's team has won all Kabaddi World Cups held till date.
23. India has the largest network of postal  in the world with about 1, 55,015 post offices. A single post office on an average serves a population of over 7,175 people. There was a floating post office in Dal Lake, Srinagar, which was inaugurated in August 2011.
24. India is the world's lowest consumption of meat per person.
25. The world's biggest family lives in India: a man with 39 wives and 94 children lives together.

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