India

Location: Lies in Southern Asia Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east.

Area: 3,287,590 sq km

Population: 1,129,866,154 (As on July 2007)

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

Terrain: Plateau in south, flat to rolling plain along the Ganges, deserts in west, mighty Himalayas in north.

Languages: Hindi is the national language. Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi are some other languages among hundreds of other regional languages.