Location: Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and Pakistan
Geographic Coordinates: 21 00 N, 77 00 E
Area: Total: 3,287,263 sq km
Country comparison to the world: 7
Land: 3,287,590 sq km
Water: 314,400 sq km
Coastline: 7,517 km
Terrain: upland plain (Deccan Plateau) in south, flat to rolling plain along the Ganges, deserts in west, Himalayas in north
Lowest point: IIndian Ocean 0 m
Highest point: Kanchenjunga 8,598 m
Population: 1,278,119,445 (1.27 billion) As of March 1, 2015
Demographics:0-14 years: 28.5% (male 187,016,401/female 165,048,695) 15-24 years: 18.1% (male 118,696,540/female 105,342,764) 25-54 years: 40.6% (male 258,202,535/female 243,293,143) 55-64 years: 7% (male 43,625,668/female 43,175,111) 65 years and over: 5.8% (male 34,133,175/female 37,810,599) (2014 est.)
Language: Hindi 41%, Bengali 8.1%, Telugu 7.2%, Marathi 7%, Tamil 5.9%, Urdu 5%, Gujarati 4.5%, Kannada 3.7%, Malayalam 3.2%, Oriya 3.2%, Punjabi 2.8%, Assamese 1.3%, Maithili 1.2%, other 5.9%
Literacy rate 65.46% (women) and 82.14% (men)