Namaste India !

Official Name: Republic of India

When to go: All the seasons are good:)

Transportation Details:

By Air

Domestic Airports in India: Palam Airport(New Delhi), Amritsar Airport (Amritsar), Srinagar Airport (Srinagar), Jammu Airport (Jammu), Kullu Manali (Bhuntar, Kullu), Chandigarh Airport(Chandigarh), Sanganer Airport (Jaipur), Agra Civil Enclaves, Kheria (Agra), Amausi Airport(Lucknow), Varanasi Airport (Varanasi), Shimla Airport (Shimla), Jolly Grant Airport(Dehradun), Pant Nagar Airport(Pant Nagar), C.A. Kanpur (Kanpur), Jodhpur Airport (Jodhpur), Santa Cruz Domestic Airport (Mumbai), Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Airport (Ahmedabad), Goa Airport (Vasco da Gama), C. E. Bhuj (Bhuj), Kandla Airport (Gandhi Dham, Kutch), Jamnagar Airport (Jamnagar), Rajkot Airport(Rajkot), Porbandar Airport (Porbandar), Keshod Airport (Keshod), Bhavnagar Airport(Bhavnagar), Calicut Airport (Vadodara), Aurangabad Airport(Aurangabad), Bombay Airport (Juhu, Bombay), Pune Airport(Pune).

International Airports in India: Indira Gandhi International Airport (New Delhi), Chattrapati Shivaji International Airport (Mumbai), Begumpet Airport (Hyderabad), Calicut International Airport (Calicut), Chennai International Airport(Chennai), Cochin International Airport(Cochin), HAL Airport(Banglore), Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport (Kolkata), Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport (Ahmedabad), Trivandrum International Airport (Trivandrum), Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport (Nagpur), Amausi Airport (Lucknow), Mangalore International Airport (Mangalore).

Quick Facts

Total area: 3,287,590 sq km

Population (2007 est.): 1,129,866,154

Capital and largest city (2003 est.): New Delhi (capital) and Mumbai (largest city)

Monetary unit/Currency: Indian rupee (INR)

Time zone: IST (UTC+5:30)

Internet country code: .in

Calling code: +91

Geographic coordinates: 20 00N, 77 00 E

Climate: varies from tropical monsoon in south to temperate in north

Business Information:

• Major Industries: chemicals, food processing, textiles, steel, transportation equipment, mining, machinery, petroleum, software
• Exports:
• Natural Resources: coal, chromite, diamonds, iron ore, bauxite, manganese, mica, titanium ore, natural gas, petroleum, limestone, arable land
• Agriculture: cotton, rice, wheat, jute, tea, sugarcane, oilseed, potatoes, cattle, water buffalo, sheep, goats, poultry, fish

Other Data

President: Pratibha Patil

Independence Day: 15 August (from UK)

Languages: English is the most important language for national, political and commercial communication; Hindi is the national language and 14 other official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi and Urdu

Religion: Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% 

Right to vote: 18years and above.