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Quick fun quiz !!!The winner team will get traditional Indian souvenir ^_~

Basic Facts

Republic of INDIA is a country in South Asia, bounded by:North-East: China, Nepal & BhutanEast: Myanmar (Burma) & BangladeshSouth-East: Bay of BengalSouth: Indian OceanSouth-West: Arabian SeaWest: Pakistan

New Delhli is the capital of India.

Seventh largest country by area and second most populous country with over

LanguagesIndia has 22 official languages & spoken regionally such as in:North: Hindi, Punjabi & UrduEast: Bengali, Assamese, etcSouth-East: OriyaSouth: Telugu & TamilSouth-West: Malayalam, Kannada & MarathiWest: Gujarati

Hindi is the national language (~25% native speakers) and English is the second, commonly used as administrative language

ReligionsIndia subcontinent is the birthplace of some of the words major religions each Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism & Sikhism - Temples -Hinduism: ~82%, Srirangam, AkshardhamIslam: ~13%Nizamuddin, Jama MasjidChristianity: ~2.5%Medak CathedralSikhism: ~1.9%Golden TempleBuddhism: ~0.8%Budh Gaya, ChaukhandiJainism: ~0.4%Lal Mandir, Ranakpur

The Muslim population of India is the third largest in the world. Most famous Islamic architectures are Taj-Mahal and Qutub Minar

Major Rivers

Seven major rivers along with their numerous tributaries make up the river system in India

All major rivers of India originate from one of the three main watersheds:The Himalaya and the Karakoram rangesChotanagpur plateau in central IndiaWestern Ghats in western India

Ganges River System (in order of merging form east to west.Ganges, Chambal, Betwa, Yamuna, Gomti, Ghaghra, Son, Gandak, Kosi & Brahmaputra

Great Going !!!Congratulations to the winner team, you may all pick whatever you like only winners please and one item each