{"id":313,"date":"2017-10-02T18:02:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T15:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/?p=313"},"modified":"2025-11-05T12:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T10:13:09","slug":"facts-about-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/facts-about-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts about India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Indian subcontinent forms a huge cultural sphere and its influence has radiated around almost the whole of Asia. India\u2019s cultural heritage is enormous, and includes archaeological evidence of some 10,000 years, as well a four-thousand-year-old literary tradition. Two Indian religions, Hinduism and Buddhism, as well the sacred language, Sanskrit, <a href=\".\/hindu-buddhist-cosmology\/\">cosmology<\/a> and architectural and other artistic prototypes gradually spread to other parts Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is also partly true with the theatrical traditions. The grand epics, the <a href=\".\/the-mahabharata\/\"><em>Mahabharata<\/em><\/a> and the <a href=\".\/the-ramayana\/\"><em>Ramayana<\/em><\/a>, for example, together with Hinduism, spread to various parts of Asia, where they are still enacted in various styles. The theory and dance-like acting technique of Indian theatre were also adapted and gradually localised in those regions with long-lasting contacts with the Indian subcontinent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\/export\/embed.html?bbox=64.95117187500001%2C9.123792057073985%2C87.51708984375%2C27.78077164334822&amp;layer=mapnik\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Surface area:<\/strong>&nbsp;3,287,590 km<sup>2<\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Capital:<\/strong>&nbsp;New Delhi<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Population:<\/strong>\u00a01,464 million<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ethnic structure:<\/strong>&nbsp;Indo Aryans 72%, Dravidians 25%, and other groups<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Languages:<\/strong>&nbsp;Official languages English and Hindi 40%, others: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmir, Sindhi, and several other languages<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Religions:<\/strong>\u00a0Hinduism 83%, Islam 12%, Christianity 2.3%, Sikhism 1.9%, and others, such as Buddhism, Jainism, Parseeism etc. all together 2.5%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian subcontinent forms a huge cultural sphere and its influence has radiated around almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4534,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/4534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}