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Geography,Climate,Demography,Population,Culture etc

LOCATION

India lies entirely in the northern hemisphere, the mainland extends between latitudes 8 deg. 4' and 37 deg. 6' north, longitudes 68 deg. 7' and 97 deg. 25' east and measures about 3,214 km from north to south between the extreme latitudes and about 22,933 km from east to west between the extreme longitudes

LAND AREA

3.29 million square kilometers

PHYSICAL BACKGROUND

The Republic of India forms a natural subcontinent with the Himalayan mountain range to the North. Two sections of the Indian Ocean - the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, lie to the West and the East respectively. India borders Pakistan to the northwest; China, Bhutan and Nepal to the northeast; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. Near India's southern tip, across the Palk Strait, is Sri Lanka. India occupies the greater part of the subcontinent of Southern Asia

CLIMATE

The climate of India may be broadly described as tropical monsoon type. There are four seasons:

Winter (January-February
weather summer (March-May)
Rainy south-western monsoon (June-September)
Post-monsoon, October-December)

India's climate is affected by two seasonal winds - the north-east monsoon and the south-west monsoon. The north-east monsoon commonly known as winter monsoon blows from land to sea whereas south-west monsoon known as summer monsoon blows from sea to land after crossing the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. The south-west monsoon brings most of the rainfall during the year in the country. It is now possible to make forecast about the monsoon rains successfully with developed models and trained manpower.

TIME

Indian Standard Time is 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of GMT

POPULATION

1,045,845,226 (July 2002)

LIFE EXPECTANCY

63.23 years

RELIGION

Hindu(83%); Muslim(11%); Christian (2%); Buddhist (1%); Jain (1%).

EDUCATION LITERACY RATE

75.85% for male, 54.16% for female, 65.38% persons

MARITIME CLAIM

Contiguous zone	24 nm
Continental shelf	200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
Exclusive economic zone	200 nm
Territorial sea	12 nm

Governments view on Foreign Investment

Indian government keeps very positive attitude towards the Foreign Investment, due to which India is going through lot of liberalization and is one the best choice of Foreign Investors. Indian government is committed towards economic development of the country and for which Foreign Investment is required.
India is a democratic country and whichever government may be in power, there will be no looking back on Foreign Investment Policies.