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12 fun facts about India
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Sources: Checked by India 4U editors; World Heritage count from the UNESCO list after the July 2026 session. Checked October 2026.
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- India is the world’s most populous country.
- India’s constitution recognises 22 scheduled languages.
- Chess grew out of an Indian game called chaturanga.
- Snakes and ladders comes from an old Indian game about virtue and vice.
- The word shampoo comes from the Hindi “champo”, a head massage.
- Meghalaya’s living root bridges are grown from living trees.
- Srinagar has a floating post office on Dal Lake.
- India has 45 UNESCO World Heritage Sites (Sarnath joined in July 2026).
- The Golden Temple’s kitchen feeds tens of thousands of people a day, for free.
- India produces more milk than any other country.
- Most of the world’s wild tigers live in India.
- The whole of India runs on one time zone, IST.
