Knowledge about India
Posted on:9/7/2005
| A short summary in the form of questions and answers relating to India and its geography, history and people. |
What is the name of Indian flag?
Answer: Tiranga
How many colors are there in Indian flag (Tiranga)?
Answer: 3 colors, deep saffron (kesari) at the top, white in the middle and dark green at the bottom in equal proportion.
What is the ratio of width of the flag length?
Answer: The height of the flag to its width is 2:3
What is the colour of the chakra?
Answer: Navy blue
What is the chakra in Indian flag called?
Answer: Ashoka chakra
How many spokes are there in Ashoka chakra (Tiranga)?
Answer: 24
What is the diameter of the Ashoka chakra in the Indian flag (Tiranga)?
Answer: Its diameter approximates to the width of the white band
The Ashoka chakra in the Indian flag was taken from which place?
Answer: Ashok pillar at Sarnath.
Who designed the India national flag?
Answer: Freedom fighter, Pingali Venkayya.
When was our Indian flag adopted?
Answer: It was adopted in the constituent Assembly during an ad-hoc meeting on July 22, 1947.
What is the National Anthem of India ?
Answer: Jana-gana-mana
Who composed National Anthem of India ?
Answer: Rabindranath Tagore
When was it adopted by the Constituent Assembly as the national anthem of India ?
Answer: On 24th January, 1950
When was Jana Gana Mana first sung and where?
Answer: 27th December 1911 at Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress
What is the full laying time of the national anthem?
Answer: Approximately 52 seconds.
When was the National Emblem of India adopted?
Answer: 26th January, 1950.
From where was the National Emblem taken?
Answer: Sarnath, Lion, Capital of Ashoka.(Bihar)
What is the National song of India ?
Answer: Vande Mataram
Who is the composer of the national song?
Answer: Bankim Chandra Chatterji
In which language, was the national song of India composed?
Answer: Sanskrit
When and where the National song of India was first time sung?
Answer: At the first political occasion in the 1896 session of the Indian National Congress
What is the national Animal of India ?
Answer: Tiger
What is the National Bird of the India ?
Answer: Peacock
What is the National Flower of India ?
Answer: Lotus
What is the National language of India ?
Answer: Hindi
How many languages are recognized by the Indian Constitution?
Answer: There are 22 languages recognized by the Indian Constitution. These languages are Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, and Hindi.
What is the Population of India ?
Answer: Population @ 1,060,000,000
Name the second most populous country in the world after China?
Answer: India
Where is the location of India in world map?
Answer: Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and Pakistan
What are the geographic coordinates of India ?
Answer: 20 00 N, 77 00 E
What is the total area of India in kilometers?
Answer: 3,287,590 sq km
How much is the total land area of India ?
Answer: Land: 2,973,190 sq km
How much is total water area of India ?
Answer: Water area is around 314,400 sq km, which is slightly more than one-third the size of the US
What is the area of land boundary of India ?
Answer: Total: 14,103 km
What type of climate does India have?
Answer: Varies from tropical monsoon in south to temperate in north
Which is the highest point of India ?
Answer: Kanchenjunga 8,598 m
What are the natural reserves of India ?
Answer: Coal (fourth-largest reserve in the world), iron ore, manganese, mica, bauxite, titanium ore, chromite, natural gas, diamonds, petroleum, limestone, and arable land.
What are the main religions in India ?
Answer: Hindu 81.3%, Muslim 12%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other groups including Buddhist, Jain, Parsi 2.5% (2000)
What is the language of India ?
Answer: English enjoys associate status but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication; Hindi is the national language and primary tongue of 30% of the people; there are 14 other official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, and Sanskrit. Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India but is not an official language
What is the capital of India ?
Answer: Delhi
When is the Independence day of India celebrated?
Answer: 15 August, 1947
National Holidays?
Answer: Republic Day, 26 January (1950) and 15th August
On which year Indian Constitution was laid?
Answer: 26 January 1950
Which is the highest mountain monument in India ?
Answer: Kanchenjunga Mountain
What is the height of the Kanchenjunga Mountain?
Answer: 28,208 ft/ 8,598 m
Which mountain is the highest elevation in the world?
Answer: Mount Everest 29,035 ft/8,856 m
Which mountain is second highest mountain in the world?
Answer: K2
What is the length of the Himalayan range?
Answer: 2410 km
What is the name of northern range of Himalayas?
Answer: Trans-Himalayas
Which is the highest range of the Himalayas?
Answer: Southern range
What is the name of Southern range of Himalayas?
Answer: Grate Zone.
How were Himalayas formed?
Answer: A relatively young and still growing system subject to severe earthquakes, the Himalayas' main axis was formed c.25 to 70 million years ago as the earth's crust folded against the northward-moving Indian subcontinent
What is the height of Mount Everest?
Answer: 29,035 ft/8,856 m
Which is the third highest mountain in the world?
Answer: Kanchenjunga
Which is the major river from Himalayas?
Answer: Indus, Sutlej, Ganges, and Brahmaputra
In which Country, Mount Everest is situated ?
Answer: border of Tibet and Nepal
Who scaled Mount Everest in year 1953?
Answer: Members of an expedition including Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.
Name the Person who first climbed Mount Everest?
Answer: Sir Edmund Hillary.
On which date Sir Edmund Hillary climbed on Mount Everest?
Answer: May 28, 1953,
Name the person who died on Mount Everest and his body was found in year 1999?
Answer: George H. L. Mallory
Who were the first persons to climb Kanchenjunga?
Answer: George Band and Joe Brown on May 25, 1955
Which desert is found in India ?
Answer: Thar Desert
What is the length of Thar Desert?
Answer: 800 km
What is the width of the Thar Desert?
Answer: 400 km
In which area Thar Desert is situated?
Answer: Asia, in NW India and E Pakistan,
Which river is found in Thar Desert?
Answer: Sutlej river
In which year India exploded its first nuclear device in Thar Desert?
Answer: May 1974.
In which State of the India Thar Desert is situated?
Answer: Rajasthan ,Gujarat ,Punjab, and Haryana
Name the Port and harbors situated in India Ocean?
Answer: Chennai (Madras; India ), Colombo (Sri Lanka), Durban (South Africa), Jakarta (Indonesia), Kolkata (Calcutta; India) Melbourne (Australia), Mumbai (Bombay; India), Richards Bay (South Africa)
Name the Major ports in India , which are situated on the banks of Arabian Sea?
Answer: Bombay.
What is the second name of Arabian Sea?
Answer: Sindhu Sagar
Which river of India directly flows in to the Arabian Sea ?
Answer: Sindhu river
Which countries make the coastline of Arabian Sea?
Answer: India , Iran , Oman, Pakistan ,Yemen, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Somalia and the Maldives.
Name the famous cities on the coast of Arabian Sea?
Answer: Mumbai (Bombay), (India) and Karachi, (Pakistan).
Name the Famous beaches of the Arabian Sea?
Answer: Beaches of Karachi,(Pakistan), Clifton beach (Goa ), Juhu Beach (Mumbai )
Name the main port, which situated in the coast of Bay of Bengal?
Answer: Vishakhapatnam, Paradip, Madras, and Calcutta, India ; Chittagong, Bangladesh; and Sittwe, Myanmar.
In which continent is India situated?
Answer: Asia
Which region of India is in Asia?
Answer: South Asia
Which is the longest river in India ?
Answer: Ganga.
How long is river ganga?
Answer: 2510 km
Name the place from where Ganga river arises?
Answer: Gangotari Glacier in the Himalayas .
Name the Indian cities situated on the banks of river Ganga?.
Answer: Haridwar , Allahabad , Varansi
Name the historic monument, which is in the bank of Yamuna river?
Answer: Taj Mahal
Name the place from where Yamuna river starts?
Answer: Yamunotri
Name the Dam, which is on the river Mahanadi?
Answer: Hirakund Dam
Who ruled on Kashmir in the 15th century?
Answer: Mughals
Name the beautiful garden which was found in Kashmir?
Answer: Shalimar gardens
Name the Mughal emperor who created Shalimar Gardens?
Answer: Jehangir
In which year Shalimar gardens were created?
Answer: 1619
India is divided in to how many states?
Answer: 29. The republic of India is divided into 29 states: Andhra Pradesh; Arunachal Pradesh; Assam; Bihar; Chhattisgarh; Delhi; Goa; Gujarat; Haryana; Himachal Pradesh; Jammu and Kashmir (see Kashmir); Jharkhand; Karnataka; Kerala; Madhya Pradesh; Maharashtra; Manipur; Meghalaya; Mizoram; Nagaland; Orissa; Punjab; Rajasthan; Sikkim; Tamil Nadu; Tripura; Uttaranchal; Uttar Pradesh; and West Bengal (see Bengal). There are also six union territories, administered by the federal government: the Andaman and Nicobar Islands; Chandigarh; Dadra and Nagar Haveli; Daman and Diu; Lakshadweep; and Pondicherry. Kashmir
Name the place where India ’s largest shipyard is located?
Answer: Visakhapatanam
Which are the two important rivers in Andhra Pradesh?
Answer: Godavari and Krishna.
What is the language of the Andhra Pradesh ?
Answer: Telugu.
What is the name of the state classical dance of Andhra Pradesh?
Answer: Kuchipudi
Which line is called MacMahon line in Arunachal Pradesh?
Answer: Tibet, and China border, which is in dispute is called MacMahon line
Before 1987, Arunachal Pradesh was part of which state?
Answer: Assam.
Name the mountain, which is the situated in Arunachal Pradesh?
Answer: Himalayas.
First university in Assam opened in which year?
Answer: 1948.
In which year Naga hills district was made into the state of Nagaland?
Answer: 1963
Name the Capital of Assam?
Answer: Dispur
Name the commercial capital of the Assam?
Answer: Guwahati
Name the National Park situated in the state of Assam?
Answer: Kaziranga National Park
What are the languages of Assam?
Answer: Assamese and Bodo
Which regional festival is celebrated in Assam?
Answer: Bihu festival , Durga Puja
Which variety of tea is found in the Assam?
Answer: Camellia assamica tea
Which commercial crop is grown in the Assam?
Answer: Tea
Which state is the biggest producer of Tea in India ?
Answer: Assam
Name the place, which is in second position in the world production in crude oil and natural gas?
Answer: Assam
Bihar was the part of which ancient kingdom?
Answer: Kingdom of Magadha
Which state of India is ranked 3rd in density?
Answer: Bihar
What is the ancient name of Patna?
Answer: Pataliputra
Which empire ruled on Bihar between 325 BC-185 BC?
Answer: Maurya
Name the world’s oldest university?
Answer: Nalanda
Bihar is birthplace of which religions?
Answer: Buddhism and Jainism
What is the meaning of the word "Bihar."
Answer: "Vihara", meaning Buddhist Monasteries.
Why Vaishali is famous in Bihar?
Answer: The founder of Jainism was born in Vaishali, Bihar
Why Gaya is famous in Bihar?
Answer: Buddha attained enlightenment at Bodh Gaya,
Which empire built the longest road of the Indian subcontinent?
Answer: Sher Shah Suri
What is the full form of GT Road
Answer: Grand Trunk Road.
Mahatma Gandhi started the freedom movement in India by his satyagraha in which state of India?
Answer: Champaran district of Bihar
Who destroyed the University of Nalanda in Bihar?
Answer: 1200: Muhammad of Ghori
Name the state, which divided from Bihar in year 2000?
Answer: Jharkhand
Which other country is connected with Bihar?
Answer: Nepal
Name the place where oil refinery is located in Bihar ?
Answer: Baruni
Which is the major festival in Bihar?
Answer: Chhath
Chhath is the worship of which God?
Answer: Sun god.