India (India General Information) is one of the popular countries for having tour. India is the land to travel to and a haven for tourism delights, and a civilization to tour through. The tour in India, is all about exploring its wealth of sights, cultural exuberance and its diverse terrain and navigating from the smoky mangroves of the Sunderbans to the steaming Thar desert, sizzling cities like Mumbai and Delhi to the scintillating villages of Khajuraho and Hampi, from the heights of the Himalayas to the deep blue waters around the Andamans. Besides, tour there is also possible to have trekking in India, as there is possible for having adventure sports, waiting for enthusiast. The mountain ranges of India offer breathtaking, enthralling trekking routes. In the vast amphitheatre of the Indian Himalayas and Karakorams, there are limitless possibilities for trekking tours, mountaineering, skiing, and river rafting tours. The Garhwal and Kumaon regions, occupy the central place, with special points of interest for the trekker.
India is located in South Asia. It is the seventh largest, and the second most populous country in the world, bordering the Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal, between Mynamar and Pakistan.
Border Countries: Afghanistan and Pakistan to the north-west; China, Bhutan and Nepal to the north; Myanmar to the east; and Bangladesh to the east of West Bengal.
Land area: 3,287,590 sq km
Population: (2010 estimation): 1,173,108,018
Capital: New Delhi
Largest cities: Bombay (Mumbai), Calcutta (Kolkata), Bangalore, Madras (Chennai), Ahmedabad, 3,653,700; Hyderabad, Kanpur to name a few.
Monetary unit: Rupee
National name: Bharat
Principal languages: Hindi 30 percent, English, Bengali, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Kannada, Assamese, Sanskrit, Sindhi (all official); Hindi/Urdu; 1,600+ dialects
Ethnicity/race: Indo-Aryan 72 percent, Dravidian 25 percent, Mongoloid and other 3 percent.
Religions: Hindu 81 percent, Islam 13 percent, Christian 2 percent, Sikh 2 percent.