fact about india

1)The name ‘India’ is derived from the river Indus. It is a valley around which people settled in earlier times.

2)India is the world’s oldest, largest and continuous civilization – the Indus Valley civilization.

3)India has the largest postal system in the world with more than 150,000 post offices, which is thrice the size of that of China. India has the world’s only floating post office on Dal Lake, Sri Nagar. The office provides all regular postal services.

4)India has more than 300,000 active mosques. This outnumbers any other country in the world, even the Muslim countries.

5)India is the second largest English speaking country in the world – 125,226,449 numbers of English speakers.