What every visitor should know about India:

Money
The currency is the Indian rupee (INR). 10 INR is worth about US$0.22, or €0.15.
Crime
CrimeSafe Travel Score™: 3.5 out of 5 (Safe)

Areas of concern:

  • Mugging
  • Pick-pocketing / bag-snatching
Capital
New Delhi
Tap water
Unsafe. Water purification efforts are inadequate to guarantee safe supply. Drink boiled or bottled water whenever possible.

India facts and figures:

People

Population
1,166,079,217
Language
Hindi 41%, Bengali 8.1%, Telugu 7.2%, Marathi 7%, Tamil 5.9%, Urdu 5%, Gujarati 4.5%, Kannada 3.7%, Malayalam 3.2%, Oriya 3.2%, Punjabi 2.8%, Assamese 1.3%, Maithili 1.2%, other 5.9%
Ethnicity
Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3%

Economy

GDP
US$2,900 (per capita)
Income equality
High
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