Facts about India

== India ==
India is a country that is located in Southern Asia, there are more about what India is all about in this page: India
== 10 Facts About India ==
# India invented games such as Chess back then.
# Yoga was made in India for over the last 5000 years
# There are 300,000 active mosques in India , more than in any other country, including the Muslim world
# India has the largest number of Post Offices in the world
# India was one of the richest countries till the time of British rule in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus, attracted by India's wealth, had come looking for a sea route to India when he discovered America by mistake.
# The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world. It is located in the Ladakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army in August 1982
# One of the largest employer in the world is the Indian Railways , employing over a million people
# When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization)
# India is the only country other than US and Japan, to have built a super computer indeigenously.
# India has the world's second biggest population, with over a billion people, as the 1 billion person born in india was in the year 2000, and is a girl called: Ashta Arora. India will soon overpass China as the world's most populated nation in the world.
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