TRIP PLANNER

INDIA

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INDEX

• Number of inhabitants

• Geographical features

• Main economic activities

• Monuments

• Festivities

• Places of interest

• Customs and traditions

• Typical food

• Famous people from that town

• Curiosities

Geographical features

• India is situated north of the equator between 8°4' north (the mainland) to 37°6' north latitude and 68°7' east to 97°25' east longitude.

• It is the seventh-largest country in the world, with a total area of 3,287,263 square kilometres .

• India measures 3,214 km from north to south and 2,933 km from east to west.

Number of inhabitants

• India is the most populous country in the world with one-sixth of the world's population. According to official estimates in 2022, India's population stood at over 1.42 billion.

• Between 1975 and 2010, the population doubled to 1.2 billion, reaching the billion mark in 2000. India overtook China to become the most populous country at the end of April 2023.

Main economic activities

• Agricultural
• Industrial Production
• IT and Outsourcing

Monuments

Red fort

Taj Mahal

Places of interest

• Jairpur

• BomBaim

• Goa

Festivities

• Holi

• Navratri

• Diwali

Holi is a popular and significant Hindu festival celebrated as the Festival of Colours, Love and Spring.It celebrates the eternal and divine love of the god Radha and Krishna. Additionally, the day also signifies the triumph of good over evil, as it commemorates the victory of Vishnu as Narasimha Narayana over Hiranyakashipu.

Navaratri is an annual Hindu festival observed in the honour of the goddess Durga also referred to as Adi Parashakti. It spans over nine nights (and ten days), first in the month of Chaitra (March/April of the Gregorian calendar), and again in the month of Ashwin (September–October).

Diwali is a Hindu religious festival, also known as the festival of lights. During Diwali, celebrated once a year, people debut new clothes, share sweets and set off fireworks. This festival celebrates, among other stories, the destruction of Narakasura by Sri Krishna, which makes Diwali a religious event that symbolizes the destruction of evil forces.

Customs and traditions

Tradition of Vedic Chanting

Kumbh Mela

Ramlila

The Khumba Mela or Kumbh Mela is the main festival of Hinduism, which takes place four times every twelve years in India, running through four cities: Prayagraj, Ujjain, Nashik and Haridwar.

Ramlila translates to “Rama's play” and is performed across northern India during Dussehra (October-November).

Vedic chanting is the traditional way of reciting the Vedas, the ancient scriptures of Hinduism

Typical food

• Dal makhani

• Masala dosa

• Vada pav

• Chaat

Curiosities

• Cows are sacred in India: Hindus, however, are vegetarians and they consider the cow to be a sacred symbol of life that should be protected and revered.

• Hinduism is the oldest religion in the world: Scholars regard Hinduism as a synthesis of various Indian cultures and traditions, with diverse roots and no single founder. This Hindu synthesis emerged after the Vedic period.

• India was the first country to mine diamonds: You would be happy to know that until the 1730s, India was the world's only known source of diamonds.

Famous people from India

• Mahatma Gandhi

Layer

• George Orwell

Novelist

• Salman Khan

Actor

Thanks!

Webgraphy

• http://countrylicious.com/india/famous-people

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/india