What are some of the interesting facts about India?

有关印度的有趣事实

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Avnish Singh

Here are 52 interesting facts about india

以下是关于印度的52件有趣的事

1.Zero'0' was ivnented in India by Aryabattaa.

2.India is the 4th country in the world and the only in Asia to send a satellite to mars and the only country to do so in the first attempt.

3.Chess,shampoo,surgery and Pentium(today used in 90% of world computers) are given to the world by India.

4.India has one of the largest number of mosques in the world (300,000) which any Muslim or Arab country don't have.

5.India has the largest vegetarian population in the world.

1。印度的阿雅巴塔发明了“0”。

2。印度是世界上第4个，也是亚洲唯一一个向火星发射卫星的国家，也是唯一一个首次发射就取得成功的国家。

3。国际象棋、洗发水、外科手术和奔腾处理器(现在全世界90%的电脑都在使用)都是印度献给世界的礼物。

4。印度是世界上清真寺数量最多的国家之一(30万座)，msl和阿拉伯国家都没有这么多。

5。印度是世界上素食人口最多的国家。

6.India is largest producer of engineers in the world.

7.The CEO’s of Microsoft,Google,pepsico,nokia,Mast-rCard are all Indians(as of 2018).

8.India has the most Facebook users in the world.

9.India is the largest producer of milk in the world.

10.After US,India is 2nd largest English speaking nation.

6。印度是世界上最大的工程师产出国。

7。微软、谷歌、百事可乐、诺基亚、Master-Card的CEO都是印度人(截至2018年)。

8。印度拥有世界上最多的Facebook用户。

9。印度是世界上最大的牛奶生产国。

10。印度是仅次于美国的第二大英语使用国。

11.India has the fastest anti-ship cruise missile in the world,the BrahMos.

12.Indian Army controls the highest battlefield in the world-the Siachen Glacier(5000 meters above the sea level)

13.In the Battle of Longewaga,which took place during the indo-pakistan war of 1971,when 125 indian soldiers(with no tanks,no artillery)defeated 2,000 Pakistani soldiers ,(equipped with 40 tanks)there were only 2 casulaties on indian side.

14.At an altitude of 2,444 meters, the Chail Cricket Ground in Chail, Himachal Pradesh, is the highest in the world. It was built in 1893.

15.The Indian Army built the highest bridge in the world-The Bailey Bridge.

11。印度拥有世界上最快的反舰巡航导弹布拉莫斯。

12。印度军队控制着世界上最高的战场——锡亚琴冰川(海拔5000米)

13。在1971年印巴战争期间发生的隆格瓦加战役中，125名印度士兵(没有坦克，没有大炮)击败了2000名巴基斯坦士兵(装备了40辆坦克)，而印度只有2辆卡苏拉迪。

14。喜马偕尔邦Chail地区的Chail板球场海拔2444米，是世界上最高的板球场。它建于1893年。

15。印度军队建造了世界上最高的桥梁——贝利桥。

16.When Dr.ABJ Abdul Kalam visited Switzerland on 26th May,2006 the country declared that day as its ‘Science Day'.

17.Indian Army has a horse Clavery wich is among the 3 last remaining regiments in the world.

18.Before 1857,India was the only source of diamonds in the world.

19.Indian housewives hold 11% of the the world’s gold.

20.India has the longest written constitution in the the world with 444 articles in 22 parts,12 schedule and 118 amendments.

16。ABJ Abdul Kalam博士于2006年5月26日访问瑞士，瑞士宣布这一天为“科学日”。

17。印度军队的克莱弗里奇是世界上仅存的三个军团之一。

18。1857年以前，印度是世界上唯一的钻石来源。

19。印度家庭主妇持有世界黄金总量的11%。

20。印度拥有世界上最长的成文宪法，有22章444条，12个附录和118条修正案。

21.Bangluru is the most dynamic city in the world.

22.The largest school in the world is City Montessori School,Lucknow,Uttar Pradesh( according to Guinness Book of World Records, with over 52,000 pupils).

23.The largest producer of films in the world.

24.In two months of 1990,India managed to evacuate more than 110,000 of its citizens via an airlift that included nearby 500 flights.This was operation was the largest civilian evacuation in history. Air India holds Guinness book of world records for the most people evacuated by a civil airline.

25.India is one of the biggest contributers to the UN peace kee forces.

21。班加罗尔是世界上最有活力的城市。

22。世界上最大的学校是北方邦勒克瑙蒙特梭利学校(根据吉尼斯世界纪录，有52000多名学生)。

23。拥有世界上最多的电影制片人。

24。在1990年的两个月里，印度动用500次航班的空运成功地疏散了11万多名公民。这是历史上最大规模的平民撤离行动。印度航空公司拥有一项吉尼斯世界纪录：疏散人数最多的民用航空公司。

25。印度是联合国维和部队的最大贡献者之一。

26.India Army's School of Jungle Warfare is the best in the world

27.Indian Soldiers are considered among the best in high altitude,mountain and jungle warfare.

28.Mukesh Ambani's Antila(his home) is the most expensive house in the world.(at the cost of $1 Billion)

29.Located in Central New Delhi,the Rashtrpati Bhawan is the 2nd largest head of the the state residence in the world ,with 340 rooms,5 acres floor area,a tennis court,a hospital,a football court It is equal to 3 soccer fields.

30.Indian Army holds the record for the accepting the largest military surrender in the world. At the end of the indo-pakistan war of 1971, 93,000 Pakistani soldiers surrendered to India,the largest surrender in rhe history.

26。印度陆军的丛林战争学院是世界上最好的

27。印度士兵在高海拔、高山和丛林战争中被公认是最棒的。

28。穆凯什•安巴尼的安提拉(他的家)是世界上最贵的房子。(耗资10亿美元)

29。Rashtrpati Bhawan酒店位于新德里市中心，是世界第二大国宾馆，拥有340间客房，占地5英亩，有网球场、医院和足球场，相当于3个足球场。

30。印度军队保持着世界上最大的军队招安记录。1971年印巴战争结束时，93000名巴基斯坦士兵向印度投降，这是印度史上最大的一次招安。

31.India has the largest number of post offices in the world. There is also a floating post office in Srinagar,Jammu&Kashmir.

32.In February,2017 ISRO(Indian Space Research Organization)made the world record for launching 104 satellites in space within 1 rocket.

33.It was India's Chandrayan-1 mission(launched in October,2008) which discovered the presence of water on moon.

34.Indian company,Hero is largest two wheelers manufacturer in the world. It was the largest bicycle manufacturer in 1984.

35.Indian Railways own the longest platform in the world at the Gorapkhpur station with a span of 4,430 feet.

31。印度拥有世界上最多的邮局。查谟克什米尔的斯利那加还有一个流动邮局。

32。2017年2月，印度空间研究组织创造了一枚火箭，创下了在太空中单次发射104颗卫星的世界纪录。

33。印度的月船一号探险(于2008年10月发射)在月球上发现了水的存在。

34。印度HERO公司是世界上最大的两轮车制造商。1984年时它是最大的自行车制造商。

35。印度铁路的 Gorapkhpur火车站拥有世界上最长的站台，横跨4430英尺。

36.The Marina beach in Chennai,Tamil Nadu is the 2nd longest beach in the world.

37.Chennai,Tamil Nadu is the second oldest corporation in the world after London. It was started in 1687.

38.Technopark in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, is Asia's largest IT park.

39.Indian National Kabbadi team has won all 5 men's Kabaddi World Cups held till now and have been undefeated throughout these tournaments.

40.India was the first country to develop extraction and purifying techniques of sugar.

36。泰米尔纳德邦钦奈的滨海海滩是世界上第二长的海滩。

37。泰米尔纳德邦的钦奈是世界上历史第二悠久的市政府，仅次于伦敦，始于1687年。

38。位于喀拉拉邦蒂鲁万恰普兰的科技园是亚洲最大的IT园区。

39。印度国家摔跤队赢得了迄今为止举办的所有5届摔跤世界杯男单冠军，并且在这些比赛中一直保持不败。

40。印度是第一个研究出糖提炼和提纯技术的国家。

41.Snake & Ladder are originated in India.

42.India is the largest producer of milk .

43.According to Wikipedia 16 of the world's wealthiest families are from India.List of wealthiest families - Wikipedia.

44.According to Wikipedia,India has the 3rd largest number of billionaires in the world (total 131).List of countries by the number of billionaires - Wikipedia

45.India is 4th country with the most number of spoken languages (427)behind Pupa New Guinea,Indonesia and Nigeria.

41。蛇棋游戏源于印度。

42。印度是最大的牛奶生产国。

43。根据维基百科，世界上最富有的家庭中有16个来自印度。最富有的家庭名单——维基百科。)

44。根据维基百科，印度拥有世界上第三大亿万富翁(总共131人)。亿万富翁的国家名单——维基百科

45。印度是世界上语言第四多的国家(427种)，仅次于新几内亚，印度尼西亚和尼日利亚。

46.India is the biggest oil and arms importing country in the world.

47.India is the largest Democracy in the world.

48.Mawsynram, located in the Meghalaya State , is the wettest place on the earth with an annual rainfall of 11,871 millimetres.

49.Ludo is originated in India,it was discovered by Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar.

50.Tamil is the oldest language in the world.

51.IGNOU(Indira Gandhi National Open University)is the largest open university in the world with over 4 million students.

52.India has largest volunteer army in the world.

46。印度是世界上最大的石油和武器进口国。

47。印度是世界上最大的民*国家。

48。Mawsynram位于梅加拉亚邦，是世界上最潮湿的地方，年降雨量为11871毫米。

49。骰子游戏源于印度，是由贾拉鲁丁·穆罕默德·阿克巴尔发现的。

50。泰米尔语是世界上最古老的语言。

51。伊格努(英迪拉·甘地国立开放大学)是世界上最大的开放大学，拥有400多万学生。

52。印度有世界上最大规模的志愿军。

译文来源：三泰虎     http://www.santaihu.com/46245.html      译者：Joyceliu

Ayush Sinha, Fellow, SBI Youth for India (2016-17)

• India or Bharat originates from two Sanskrit words - Bha (meaning light) and rat (which means finding). Hence Bharat means 'the one in the search of light'
• India is one of the oldest civilizations of the world and the birthplace of four religions
• World's largest and most advanced economy from 0 CE uptil late 17th century
• Cataract surgery, plastic surgery, yoga, Ayurveda, cotton cultivation, jute cultivation, sugar refining, the weighing balance, the celestial globe, iron metallurgy, rockets, microwave communication, Ludo, snake and ladders, algebraic abbreviations, Rolle's theorem, the digit 0, Fibonacci numbers, the decimal mark, Pascal's triangle, Ramanujan's theta function, the Chandrasekhar limit, Raman effect, sign convention, trigonometric functions, diamond mining, lunar water, formal grammar, standardisation and technical standards were all introduced in/by India.
• 印度或巴拉特源于两个梵语单词——光和寻找。因此巴拉特的意思是“寻找光的人”
• 印度是世界最古老的文明之一，也是四大宗教的发源地
• 公元0年至17世纪晚期，印度一直是世界上最大的和最先进的经济从
• 白内障手术、整形手术、瑜伽、阿育吠陀、棉花种植、黄麻种植、糖精炼、重量平衡、天球仪、钢铁冶金、火箭、微波通讯、骰子游戏、蛇棋游戏、代数缩写、罗尔定理、数字0、斐波那契数字、小数点、帕斯卡三角、Ramanujanθ函数、钱德拉塞卡极限、拉曼效应、符号法则、三角函数、钻石开采、发现月球上有水、形式语法、标准化和技术标准都是由印度发明的。
• With 7 of the world's top 15 information technology outsourcing companies based in India, the country is viewed as the second-most favourable outsourcing destination after the United States.
• India ranks 17th in financial market sophistication, 24th in the banking sector, 44th in business sophistication, and 39th in innovation, ahead of several advanced economies, as of 2010.
• 2nd in agricultural output, 3rd in electricity production, 3rd largest smartphone market, 3rd largest military, 3rd largest economy by PPP, 6th largest automotive industry, 1st in the number of graduating engineers and doctors, most no. of universities, 1st in film production, 119th in alcohol consumption(the lower the better), 1st in milk production, 2nd largest no. of internet users, 10th largest global patent filer, 4th largest television market, one of the 4 countries to possess a nuclear triad, 3rd largest railways, 2nd to the US in road network size by only 14K kms., 3rd largest steel producer, 1st in foreign remittances, 2nd only to Ethiopia by no. of UN peacekeepers, 8th largest forex reserves, 7th largest consumer market, one of the best 4 space programs of the world.
• 35 World Heritage sites, 1721 languages and more than 100 ethnic groups.
• 世界前15名的信息技术外包公司中有7家在印度，被视为第二优质的外包目的地，仅次于美国。
• 印度金融市场的成熟度排名17，银行业排名24，商业便利性排名44，创新排名39，2010年起领先多个发达经济体。
• 农业产出全球第二，电力生产全球第三，是世界第三大智能手机市场、拥有第三大军队、经济购买力平价排名第三、汽车产业全球第6、工程师和医生毕业生人数全球第一、大学数量最多。电影产量排名第一，酒精消费量排名第119位(越低越好)，牛奶产量排名第一、互联网用户排名第二，全球第十大专利申请国，第四大电视市场，四大拥有核三位一体的国家之一，铁路规模全球第三，铁路网距离排名第二的美国仅有14000千米之遥。印度是全球第三大钢铁生产国，海外汇款额排名第一，仅次于埃塞俄比亚。联合国维和部队的参与人数仅次于埃塞俄比亚排名第二，拥有第八大外汇储备，第七大消费市场，世界上最优秀的4个航天计划之一。
• 35个世界文化遗产,1721种语言和100多个民族。
• The Times of India is the largest selling English language daily in the world
• The Kumbh Mela is the only religious gathering to be visible from space
• India has more mosques than any other country of the world
• Button were invented in India (Yes, shirt buttons)
• KFC and McDonalds had to introduce a vegetarian menu just because of India
• 《印度时报》是世界上销量最大的英语日报
• 大壶节是从太空中唯一可见的宗教集会
• 印度的清真寺比世界其他任何国家都多
• 纽扣是在印度发明的(是的,衬衫纽扣)
• 肯德基和麦当劳单独为了印度推出素食菜单

Largest importer of arms but never invaded any foreign land

最大的武器进口国，但从未入侵过任何外国领土