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8th March 2016, 09:31 AM
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Re: Interesting Facts about India for Kids

India is a piece of the mainland of Asia. The vast majority of India structures a promontory, which implies it is encompassed by water on three sides. The world's most elevated mountain extend, the Himalaya, ascends in the north. The southeast is flanked by the Bay of Bengal, and the southwest is circumscribed by the Arabian Sea.

India's territory shifts broadly, from the Thar Desert in the west to wildernesses in the upper east. A prolific region called the Ganges Plain covers quite a bit of northern India. This arrangement was made from soil that was kept by waterways running from the Himalaya. In a few places, this layer of sediment is more than 25,000 feet (7,620 meters) profound.

Things to Know about India for kids:

Creatures


Numerous zoologists assess that there are about 76,000 types of creatures in India. The best-known of India's creatures are the Indian elephant and the tiger.

Two of India's most noteworthy creatures, the Bengal/Indian Tiger and the Asiatic Elephant are found in many locales of India.

Bengal Tiger (certainty sheet). Tigers are India's Official National Animal and India's biggest felines. Different felines of India incorporate four types of puma - the basic panther ; the all-dark panther ; the infrequently seen pale skinned person panther; and the snow panther , which is discovered just in the Himalayas.

Trained elephants are regularly utilized rather than bulldozers or tractors to manufacture structures and clear wilderness or woods.

Indian Elephant

In India, monkeys are dealt with as extremely uncommon creatures, infrequently they are even viewed as sacred. The Life of Hanuman the monkey god.

The commonest types of monkeys found in India are the rhesus monkey and the Hanuman monkey , a sort of langur. Another sort of monkey, the lion-tailed macaque or wanderoo, is found in a little range of southern India.

Peacock - India's National Bird

India has more than 400 types of reptiles and snakes.

Cobras-The longest venomous snake

For more data on Cobras visit the Cobra Information site.

India has 90 types of scorpions.

Scorpions - find out about these venomous arthropods

Hoolock Gibbon (India's just gorilla)

Sloth Bear

Indian Gazelle/Chinkara-The littlest asiatic pronghorn.

Red pandas look more like raccoons than their nearest relative - the goliath panda. (Eastern India's Himalayan Mt.)

Asiatic Lion ( now discovered just in the Gir Forest of Saurashtra, Gujarat)

Indian One-Horned Rhinoceros

Plants

National Fruit of India-Mango

Practically every plant family on the planet is spoken to in India.

In southern India, develop different sorts of palm. Tropical plants develop in western India. Business products of the locale incorporate bananas, betel nuts, cardamon, citrus organic product, coconuts, espresso and tea, ginger, pepper, and elastic. Ironwood, rosewood, and teak are copious in the broadleaf woods of the district.

One of India's most uncommon and cherished fragrant trees is the sandalwood .

The bark of the cinchona tree contains quinine, a substance used to battle jungle fever. Jungle fever is a tropical infection conveyed by mosquitoes.

Quick Facts:
OFFICIAL NAME: Republic of India, Bharat
FORM OF GOVERNMENT: Federal republic
CAPITAL: New Delhi
POPULATION: 1,236,344,631
OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Hindi, English, 21 others
MONEY: Rupee
AREA: 1,269,345 square miles (3,287,590 square kilometers)
MAJOR MOUNTAIN RANGE: Himalaya
MAJOR RIVERS: Ganges, Yamuna, Indus, Brahmaputra


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