Interesting facts about India

22 Interesting Facts About India You Probably Don't Know Yet

1.     INDIA is the only country in the world having two official names one is India (in English) and the other  Bharat (in Hindi).

2.     INDIA has the largest postal network in  the  world with over  1,55,015  post offices. A single post office on an average serves a population of 7,175 people. World’s only floating post office is also in INDIA , it is floating  in  the Dal lake in Srinagar and it also includes a philately museum within itself  (inaugurated on August  2011).

3.     The Kumbh mela gathering in INDIA is the world’s largest human gathering even it can be seen from  the space.

4.     Varanasi is one of the oldest inhabited city in the world. According to the Hindu Mythology it is believed that this city is founded by Lord SHIVA about 5000 years ago.

5.     Mysterious Anti-Gravity Hill (Magnetic Hill) in Ladakh with anti-gravitational effect is present in INDIA.

6.     Famous indoor games like Chess and Snake&ladder is also gifted by India to the  world.

7.     India’s most privileged voter Mahant Bharatdas, resides in a small hamlet called Banej in the middle of Gir forest (Gujrat). The  setting up of a particular polling booth for just one voter shows the democratic spirit of the India.

8.     Shani Shingnapur situated in ……. District of Maharstra is the one village where the houses don’t have doors. Its residents sleep soundly as they believes that their houses are in the guidance of Lord Shani.

9.     Madhopatti the small village in Jaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh has created history by producing the most numbers of IAS officers.

10.  The largest number of vegetarians in the world is in India.

11.  On septmber 2009, Indian space agency ISRO’s Candrayan-1 using its mineralogy mapper detected water on the surface of Moon for the first time.

12.  India is the world’s second largest English speaking country in the World.

13.  India is the world’s first country to develop extraction and purification technique of sugar. Many visitors from the foreign countries learnt the refining and cultivation of sugar from us.

14.   Shakuntla Devi of India was the known as the “Human Computer” after she demonstrated the multiplication of two 13 digit numbers : 7686369774870 X 2465099745779 which were picked at random. She answered correctly within 28 seconds.

15.  Holding Guiness world record Mawsynram is the wettest place on Earth with 11,873 millimeter rain annually.It is situated in the Meghalaya.

16.  India is the only country with a Bill of Rights for Cows.

17.  India has the most numbers of mosques in the world since 14% population of India belongs to Muslim community.

18.  Most visited place of the world is the Golden Temple in Amritsar (Punjab).

19.  The world’s biggest family is in Baktawng village of Mizoram. Mr. Ziona chana is the head of this family. This family has 181 members consisting 39 wifes, 94 children, 14 daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren.

20.  The Roopkund lake of Uttarakhand is known as the Skeleton lake due to the presence of hundreds of skeletons at its bottom.

21.  The Lifeline Express or Jeevanrekha Express is the world’s first hospital train taking its services from surgeries to cancer treatment to remote village.

22.  The Indian Railways is the largest rail network in the Asia carrying over 23 million passengers daily in 12,617 trains. The number of passengers travels per day through Indian Railways is more than the population of Australia.