General information about India

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General information about India

Сообщение HainanWel.com(e)! » 04 мар 2011, 00:54

03/02/2011 General information about India

Country name:

conventional long form: Republic of India

conventional short form: India

local long form: Republic of India/Bharatiya Ganarajya

local short form: India/Bharat

Location: Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and Pakistan

Geographic coordinates: 20 00 N, 77 00 E

Map references: Asia Area: total: 3,287,263 sq km

country comparison to the world: 7

land: 2,973,193 sq km

water: 314,070 sq km

Area - comparative: slightly more than one-third the size of the US

Land boundaries: total: 14,103 km border countries: Bangladesh 4,053 km, Bhutan 605 km, Burma 1,463 km, China 3,380 km, Nepal 1,690 km, Pakistan 2,912 km

Coastline: 7,000 km

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

Terrain: upland plain (Deccan Plateau) in south, flat to rolling plain along the Ganges, deserts in west, Himalayas in north

Elevation extremes: lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m highest point: Kanchenjunga 8,598 m

Natural resources: coal (fourth-largest reserves in the world), iron ore, manganese, mica, bauxite, rare earth elements, titanium ore, chromite, natural gas, diamonds, petroleum, limestone, arable land

Land use: arable land: 48.83% permanent crops: 2.8% other: 48.37% (2005)

Irrigated land: 558,080 sq km (2003)

Natural hazards: droughts; flash floods, as well as widespread and destructive flooding from monsoonal rains; severe thunderstorms; earthquakes volcanism: Barren Island (elev. 354 m, 1,161 ft) in the Andaman Sea has been active in recent years

Government type: federal republic

Capital: name: New Delhi

geographic coordinates: 28 36 N, 77 12 E

time difference: UTC+5.5 (10.5 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)

Administrative divisions: 28 states and 7 union territories; Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa, Puducherry, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal

Independence: 15 August 1947 (from the UK)

National holiday: Republic Day, 26 January (1950)

Constitution: 26 January 1950; amended many times

Legal system: based on English common law; judicial review of legislative acts; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations; separate personal law codes apply to Christians, Hindus, and Muslims

Population: 1,173,108,018 (July 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 2

Age structure: 0-14 years: 30.5% (male 187,197,389/female 165,285,592) 15-64 years: 64.3% (male 384,131,994/female 359,795,835) 65 years and over: 5.2% (male 28,816,115/female 31,670,841) (2010 est.)

Median age: total: 25.9 years male: 25.4 years female: 26.6 years (2010 est.)

Population growth rate: 1.376% (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 89

Airports: 352 (2010) country comparison to the world: 23

Airports - with paved runways: total: 249 over 3,047 m: 21 2,438 to 3,047 m: 57 1,524 to 2,437 m: 75 914 to 1,523 m: 81 under 914 m: 15 (2010)

Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 103 over 3,047 m: 1 2,438 to 3,047 m: 3 1,524 to 2,437 m: 8 914 to 1,523 m: 43 under 914 m: 48 (2010)

Heliports: 40 (2010)

Pipelines: condensate/gas 2 km; gas 7,542 km; liquid petroleum gas 2,163 km; oil 7,659 km; refined products 7,201 km (2009)

Railways: total: 64,015 km country comparison to the world: 4 broad gauge: 52,808 km 1.676-m gauge (18,172 km electrified) narrow gauge: 8,473 km 1.000-m gauge; 2,734 km 0.762-m gauge and 0.610-m gauge (2009)

Roadways: total: 3,320,410 km (includes 200 km of expressways) (2009) country comparison to the world: 3

Waterways: 14,500 km country comparison to the world: 9 note: 5,200 km on major rivers and 485 km on canals suitable for mechanized vessels (2008)

Merchant marine: total: 324 country comparison to the world: 29 by type: bulk carrier 94, cargo 78, chemical tanker 23, container 15, liquefied gas 11, passenger 4, passenger/cargo 12, petroleum tanker 87 foreign-owned: 8 (China 1, Hong Kong 1, Jersey 1, Malaysia 1, UAE 4) registered in other countries: 56 (Cyprus 2, Dominica 2, Liberia 1, Malta 4, Marshall Islands 8, Nigeria 1, Panama 17, Singapore 19, unknown 2) (2010)

Ports and terminals: Chennai, Jawaharal Nehru, Kandla, Kolkata (Calcutta), Mumbai (Bombay), Sikka, Vishakhapatnam

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Re: General information about India

Сообщение HainanWel.com(e)! » 05 дек 2014, 19:20

In India, you can rent a car with a driver who speak any language

India's largest company specializing in the rental car company KTC, offers tourists the most comfortable stay in the country, not only due to the wide range of vehicles, but also because of the numerous additional services. Now all the guests of the country can rent a car with a driver who will speak in their own language, which will undoubtedly affect the ride comfort.

This allows the company expects to increase the number of contracts due to arrive for training, business travelers, as well as ordinary travelers.

Among the proposals of language "menu" of the company including English, Russian, Hindi, German, French, Spanish, Tamil, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi and Gujarati, Telugu, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Arabic.
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Сообщение HainanWel.com(e)! » 10 янв 2015, 01:03

India tour operators authorized to use satellite phones

Indian Ministry of Tourism to develop the scheme ended purchases, registration and use of satellite phones tour operators who organize tours in the mountains of India. Interior Ministry has approved the scheme, writes eturbonews.

Association of operators of adventure tours (ATOAI) repeatedly requested the Ministry to remove the use of satellite phones. Lack of communication adversely affects the scope of adventure tourism: trekking, climbing peaks, rafting on the distant villages from rivers.
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Сообщение HainanWel.com(e)! » 06 апр 2015, 20:04

CPS recommends that the Russians before the trip to India grafted flu

Rospotrebnadzor experts will study the influenza virus A (H1N1), which led to two thousand deaths in India, "Interfax" on Tuesday, the head of Rospotrebnadzor, chief state sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation Anna Popova.

"The situation is under the control of Rospotrebnadzor. Our institutions have been instructed to analyze this variant of the virus in the Russian laboratories" - she said.

According to Andrei Popov, in India since the beginning of the year registered 33 thousand. Cases of pandemic influenza A (H1N1-2009), including 2 thousand. Cases - with fatal consequences.

"It is necessary to know the Russian tourists and citizens who go to India on a need. It should be vaccinated against the flu, exercise caution, follow all the rules preventing airborne infections," - said Andrei Popov.

According to her, the Indian Institute of Virology reported that some dangerous mutation of the influenza virus A (H1N1) have been found.
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