- India is the world’s largest democracy, with 1.2 billion people.
- 100 million people come to India’s Kumbh Mela Festival, the world’s biggest gathering of humans.
- India has the world’s third largest active army, after China and USA.
- India’s Hindu calendar has 6 seasons: spring, summer, monsoon, autumn, winter and prevernal.
- Around a 100 million years ago, India was an island.
- Varanasi is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
- Indian Railways employs more than 1.3 million people. That’s more than the population of many nations.