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The Republic of India State Symbols of India National holidays Population Culture of India Religion Indian dance Kitchen City Temples Waterfalls Mountains River Content :

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The Republic of India Area : Capital : Government : -Prime Minister - Official language(s) : Indian Rupee 3,287,590 km ² More than 1.21 billion people New Delhi T he Union Council of Ministers of India Manmohan Singh Pratibha Patil Hindi, English and 21 other language — — Capital : - President - Population : Currency :

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State Symbols of India Flag of India Emblem of India

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National holidays The Indian calendar is a near-continuous series of national,religious, national and other holidays and festivals. In one day canmatch several different festivals. And since many of them are marked on a special schedule (lunar or religious), it is often indifferent years, even the same festival is celebrated in different months. January 1 - New Year's Eve. January 26 - Gantantra divas, Republic Day. The main national holiday in India. February-March - Holi, the festival of spring. March 8 - International Women's Day and Birthday of SwamiDayananda Saraswati. March-April - Easter. April-May - Buddha Jayanti, Buddha's Birthday, the main festivalof Buddhists. May 1 - Labor Day. . May-June - Muharram (Tadzhiyya), a day of mourning for the Muslims. August 15 - Independence Day, Svatantrata divas - a national holiday. September 5-7 - Teacher's Day. October-November - Diwali (Deepavali, Bundy Khor Divas) November 14 - Children's Day (Ball divas) and the birthday of Jawaharlal Nehru. December 25 - Christmas Day.

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India is the Indian subcontinent, bordering the Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal.

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Population India - a multinational state. It is inhabited by large nations, whose representatives differ from each other in appearance and language, and customs.

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Culture of India India can rightfully be called the open-air museum: the country'sthousands of beautiful temples, palaces, mausoleums, mosques and forts. India - the birthplace of chess, there lies the decimal system of calculation, the teachings of yoga.

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The rich spiritual culture of India - an ancient epic, visual andperforming arts, classical singing and dancing, women's wearsaris, the cult of the cobra snakes and more people attracted to this country.

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Religion 80% of people - Hindus, Muslims constitute the most significant religious minority - 11% 2.2% - Sikhs, Buddhists, only 0.7%, most of which went to Buddhism recently. India - a secular state, and any discrimination based on religion is punishable by law.

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Indian dance Indian culture - a culture of sound. Indian classical dance is a visible, as it were music .

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Kitchen Indian cuisine is characterized by a wide variety of regional styles and sophisticated use of cooking roots, herbs and spices. The staple food is rice in the regions, and wheat. The most famous condiment, originally appeared in the Indian subcontinent and is now consumed worldwide is black pepper.

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City Delhi Chandigarh A city in northern India (about 240 km north of Delhi), capital of two states simultaneously - Punjab and Haryana. In this case Chandigarh administration is not included in the composition of these states, and has the status of Union Territory governed directly from New Delhi. Second largest (after Mumbai) in India metropolis with the status of Union Territory (National Capital Territory of Delhi). Located in northern India on the banks of river Yamuna.

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Temples Lotus Temple is located near the city of New Delhi in India. Construction began in 1978 and was completed December 22, 1986 in most of the expense of the prisoners Baha'is of Iran. Fariborz Sahba architect, a Canadian of Iranian origin. Earlier, on-site construction of this temple is the legendary village of Bach Pur (translated from the Hindi "Housing Bach"). Lotus Temple Mausoleum-mosque, located in Agra, India, on the banks of the river Yamuna was built by order of Tamerlane's descendant - the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife MumtazMahal, who died in childbirth (and later was buried himself Shah Jahan). The Taj Mahal

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Waterfalls Gersoppa Waterfalls in India, in the southern part of Western Ghat mountains, situated on the river Sharavati (40 km from its mouth). Gersoppa is a system of four stages of a total height of 255meters among the top twenty highest waterfalls in the world . Jog Falls - the highest vertical waterfall in India. It is located in Karnataka on the river Sharavati, whose waters, rolling through a stone threshold, rush down to form as many as four waterfalls. Jog Falls

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Mountains Anamudi Mountain peak in India, located in the Western Ghat in Kerala. Altitude - 2695 m, is the highest point south of the Himalayas in India. Nanda Devi The second highest mountain in India and the highest of all located in the country. The height of the mountain above sea level - 7816 m to 1808 was considered the highest mountain in the world, giving primacy Dhaulagiri.

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River largest river in India. Length - 780 km, basin area 71 900 km ². The river rises on the plateau, Chota Nagpur. In its upper reaches over480 km it passes through a narrow valley at the southern foothills Kaymur. River flows into the Ganges Its length is about 720 km and it is one of the rivers, which gave the name of Punjab. Ravi comes in the Himalayas in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh and flows in a northwesterly direction. Sleep Ravi

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The Sacred cow

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