What Indian facts come to your mind when you hear India?

India is a nation with unmistakable societies, customs, and religious, yet we as a whole stand together.

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• India's name is derived from the "Indus" river.
• Indus valley civilization is the world's oldest civilization. India, hence, is the world's oldest, most advanced and continuous civilization.
• Around a 100 million years ago, India was an island.
• India has been the largest troop contributor to the United Nations peacekeeping Missions since its inception.
• India has the world's third largest active army, after China and USA.
• Every 12 years, a religious gathering called the Kumbh Mela occur in india. It is the world's largest gathering of people. It is the world's largest gathering of people. The gathering is so large that the Kumbh Mela is visible from the space.
• The tirupathi balaji temple and the kashi vishwanath temple both, receive more visitors than the Vatican City and mecca combined.
• Varanasi is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
• India has more mosques (300,000 mosques) than any other nation in the world. And the third largest muslim population in the world.
• Today, India has the world's largest school in terms of students, the city Montessori School in Lucknow. It's has more than 45 thousand students.
• Indian Railways employs more than 1.3 million people. That's more than the population of many nation.
• More than 54 crore people voted in the 2014 general election - more people than the population of USA, UK, Australia and Japan combined.
• India has the second largest English speaking population in the world.
• Lonar lake, a saltwater lake in Maharashtra, was created by a meteor hitting the Earth and is one of its kind in india.
• Chess was invented in india. Viswanathan Anand is the first player in chess history to have won the world championship in three different formats: knnockout, tournament, and match.
  
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• Indians discovered the number zero, the value of pi, trigonometry, calculus, algbera, chess, cataract surgery, plastic surgery, diamond mining, water on the moon and shampoo.
• Around the 17th century, India was one of the richest countries in the world.
• India is the largest producer of films in the world.
  
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