30 Facts That Will Change your Mind About INDIA

India has rice farms below sea level, a fire burning underground since 1916, a single tree that looks like a forest, a railway bridge taller than the Eiffel Tower, and the biggest gathering of people in history. Here are 30 facts that prove India isn't normal. 🇮🇳 From the Chenab Bridge, Gulmarg and Kaziranga to Kuttanad, the Great Banyan, Chand Baori, Kailasa, Gir's lions, Jharia and the Maha Kumbh at Prayagraj, this India geography countdown covers it all. 💬 Which fact surprised you most? Tell us what we missed about your state! 👇 🔔 Subscribe to GEO THEORY for more geography that sounds fake but is real. 0:00 Intro 0:24 A sea bridge that lifts up 0:49 The city without Sector 13 1:11 A bridge with no nuts or bolts 1:34 Mumbai was once seven islands 1:57 The world's first fully organic state 2:21 A well with 3,500 steps 2:42 The world's longest railway platform 3:00 One of the deepest mines on Earth 3:22 Asia's largest lagoon 3:46 One tree that looks like a forest 4:07 Farming below sea level 4:30 The flower that blooms every 12 years 4:52 India's only mud volcano 5:12 India's hottest day 5:31 A cable car to 3,980 metres 5:50 The fort you can't enter at night 6:11 Two-thirds of all one-horned rhinos 6:30 The dolphin that sees with sound 6:50 A 5,000-year-old city in a salt desert 7:12 The world's largest film studio 7:30 The coastline that grew overnight 7:54 A temple carved from one rock 8:16 The last wild Asiatic lions 8:39 The tallest statue on Earth 8:58 A railway the size of a country 9:17 A bridge taller than the Eiffel Tower 9:38 A fire burning since 1916 9:59 Three-quarters of the world's tigers 10:16 19,569 mother tongues 10:42 The biggest gathering in history Map: India's boundary as India officially shows it. Sources: Government of India (PIB), Census of India 2011, FAO, Guinness World Records, Indian Railways, ISRO, UNESCO, Down To Earth, The Tribune, Business Standard, Wikipedia. Credits: Satellite imagery: Sentinel-2 cloudless - https://s2maps.eu by EOX IT Services GmbH (Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016) Terrain: Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data); ETOPO1 (NOAA NCEI); GMTED2010 and SRTM (U.S. Geological Survey) Map outlines: (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL - openstreetmap.org/copyright Photos and video (Wikimedia Commons): Biswarup Ganguly (CC BY 3.0) - Chandigarh, Great Banyan; Adityavijayavargia (CC BY-SA 4.0) - Chand Baori; Vinayaraj (CC BY-SA 4.0) - Neelakurinji, Baratang; Pablo Nicolás Taibi Cicaré (CC BY 2.0) - Phalodi; Statue of Unity (CC BY 3.0) - Statue of Unity video; Snehrashmi (CC BY-SA 4.0) - Statue of Unity; Ankur22Oct (CC BY-SA 4.0) - Ellora; Harsh.barala (CC BY-SA 3.0) - Bhangarh; Kukil Gogoi (CC BY-SA 4.0) - Ganges river dolphin; Bhajish Bharathan (CC BY-SA 4.0) - Dholavira; Masum-al-Hasan Rocky (CC BY-SA 4.0) - Ramoji Film City Other stock footage and photos: Pexels (pexels.com) and Pixabay (pixabay.com) Narration: AI voice. Research, script and maps by GEO THEORY. #India #Geography #IndiaFacts #Facts