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Location: Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and Pakistan |
| Population: 1,014,003,817 (July 2000 est.) - Capital: New Delhi |
| Ethnics Groups: Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% |
| Languages: Hindi is primary tongue of 30% of people; Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, & Sanskrit are also official; English is important for political & commerce |
Religions: Hindu 80%, Muslim 14%, Christian 2.4%, Sikh 2%, Buddhist 0.7%, Jains 0.5%, other 0.4% |
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