Full name: Indian Republic
Capital: New Delhi
Surface: 3 287 590 sq.km (Nr.7 in the world)
Population: 1,095,351,995  inhabitants (Nr. 2 in the world)
Languages: Besides English, the lingua franca,15 official languages (assamese, bengali, gujarati, hindi, kannada, kashmiri, malayalam, marathi, oriya, punjabi, sanskrite, sindhi, tamil, telugu, urdu)
Political system: Federal Parliamentary Republic (28 states, 7 territories of the Union)
Type of regime: Parliamentary Democracy
Head of the State: Pratibha Patil
Head of the Government: Manmohan Singh
Currency: Indian Rupia indiana (100 rupias = 1.58 euro)
Time zone: UTC +5:30
Tel.Code: +91
National anthem: Jana Gana Mana
National holiday: January 26th
Climate: Temperatures and precipitations vary from region to region. Three main seasons exist: the winter (from November to March); the summer (from April to June); the monsoon (from July to September-October). In the winter, which is not rainy, temperatures can be rigorous in the north and the pre-Himalayan and Himalayan regions. In New Delhi they range between 6 degrees and 21 degrees Celsius. In the summer, high temperatures are registered all over the country – particularly in the large plains in the north- with peaks even over 40 degrees. During the monsoon temperatures remain high (over 30 degrees), and the levels of moisture are really high.