India!
India’s astounding diversity of religions, languages and cultures is unique and unparalleled.
The vast diversities cannot seek an end but flow into the vast sea “Unity”. Yes, the land where unity rises and discrimination sets, that's the land — India.
As a citizen of this beautiful country, I am so proud to list down some amazing facts about it.
A glance of some interesting facts about India:
1. India is the world's largest, oldest, continuous civilization.
2. India is the world's largest democracy.
3. Martial Arts were first created in India, and later spread to Asia by Buddhist missionaries.
4. Yoga has its origins in India and has existed for over 5,000 years.
5. When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization).
6. India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.
7. India invented the number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
8. The largest flag is at the Central Park, Connaught Place in New Delhi. (measuring 90 feet in length, 60 feet in width and weighing 35 kilograms)
9. There are 300,000 active mosques in India , more than in any other country, including the Muslim world.
10. Sanskrit is the mother of all the European Languages . Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.
11. India has the second largest pool of Scientist and Engineers in the World.
12. India has the largest number of Post Offices in the world.
13. One of the largest employer in the world is the Indian Railways , employing over a million people.
14. The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world. It is located in the Ladakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army in August 1982.
15. The Vishnu Temple in the city of Tirupathi built in the 10th century, is the world's largest religious pilgrimagedestination. Larger than either Rome or Mecca, an average of 30,000 visitors donate $6 million (US) to the temple everyday.
16. Varanasi, also known as Benaras, was called "the Ancient City" when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C., and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
17. The name 'India' is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu.
18. Chess was invented in India.
19. Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies, which originated in India.
20. The 'Place Value System' and the 'Decimal System' were developed in India in 100 B.C.
21. The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh. Built in 1893 after leveling a hilltop, this cricket pitch is 2444 meters above sea level.
22. The world's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
23. The Art of Navigation & Navigating was born in the river Sindh over 6000 years ago. The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word 'NAVGATIH'. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.
24. Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the Sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. According to his calculation, the time taken by the Earth to orbit the Sun was 365.258756484 days.
25. The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century, long before the European mathematicians.
26. Until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds in the world.
27. Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient Indian medicine. Detailed knowledge of anatomy, embryology, digestion, metabolism,physiology, etiology, genetics and immunity is also found in many ancient Indian texts.
28. India exports software to 90 countries.
29. The four religions born in India - Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world's population.
30. Jainism and Buddhism were founded in India in 600 B.C. and 500 B.C. respectively.
31. The oldest European church and synagogue in India are in the city of Cochin. They were built in 1503 and 1568 respectively.
32. India provides safety for more than 300,000 refugees originally from Sri Lanka, Tibet, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, who escaped to flee religious and political persecution.
33. His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, runs his government in exile from Dharmashala in northern India.
34. India is about 1/3 the size of the United States, yet it is the second most populous country in the world, with a population of 1,166,079,217. India is the seventh largest country in the world, at 1.27 million square miles.
35. The earliest cotton in the world was spun and woven in India. Roman emperors would wear delicate cotton from India that they would call “woven winds.”
36. The Himalayas—from the Sanskrit hima, meaning “snow,” and alaya, meaning “abode”—are found in the north of India. They extend 1,500 miles and are slowly growing taller, by almost an inch (2.5 cm) a year.
37. Most historians agree that the first recorded account of plastic surgery is found in ancient Indian Sanskrit texts.
38. Hindi and English are the official languages of India. The government also recognizes 17 other languages (Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Nepali, Manipuri, Konkani, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu). Apart from these languages, about 1,652 dialects are spoken in the country.
39. All of India is under one time zone.
40. Arabic numericals are in fact Indian numericals.
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