REPUBLIC OF INDIA

Indian Flag Emblem

SOME FACTS ABOUT INDIA

Motto

"Satyameva Jayate"

सत्यमेव जयते

"Truth Alone Triumphs"

Anthem

Jana Gana Mana

Thou art the ruler of the minds of all people

National Song

Vande Mataram

I bow to thee, Mother

Capital

New Delhi

Largest city

Mumbai Official

Languages:

Scheduled Languages: Hindi, English

Hindi in the Devanagari script is the official language of the union and English the 'subsidiary official language'.

Assamese,Bengali,Bodo,Dogri,Gujarat,iHindi,Kannada,Kashmiri,Konkani, Maithili,Malayalam,Manipuri,Marathi,Nepali,Oriya,Punjabi,Sanskrit,Santali Sindhi,Tamil,Telugu,Urdu

Demonym Indian Government Federal republic Parliamentary democracy

President

Pratibha Patil

Prime Minister

Manmohan Singh

Independence from British colonial rule Declared

15 August 1947

Republic 26 January 1950

Area

Total 3,287,590‡ km²

Water (%)

9.56

Population

2007 estimate 1.12 billion

2001 census 1,027,015,248