world at a glance

7/27/2019 World at a Glance

1/100

World at a glance ......

Total Surface Area: 510,064,472 sq km

Total Land Area: 148,940,000 sq km (29.2% of Planet Earth's surface)

Total Water Area: 361,132,000 sq km (70.8% of Planet Earth's surface)

Total Population: 7.04 billion

Total Weight: 5.9722 1024

Kg

Total Volume: 1.083211012

km3

Total Age: 4.54 billion years

Surface Gravity: 32.041 ft/s2

Distance from Moon: 384,403 km

Distance from Sun: 150 million km

Equatorial Radius: 6,378.1 km

Mean Radius: 6,371.0 km

Polar Radius: 6,356.8 km

Orbiting Speed: 29.78 km/s

Orbiting Time: 365.256363004 days

Surface Temperature: -88/5(min/max)C

Orbit Size around Sun: 92,956,050 miles (Semi Major Axis)

Period of Rotation: 23.934 hours

Speed of Rotation: 1670 km/hr

Distance from nearest Planet: 38 million km from Venus

Total Continent: 7 (Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, South America, Australia,

Antarctica)


2/100

Total Ocean: 5 ( Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic )

UN Recognized Countries: 193

Total Seas: 137

Primary Tectonic Plates: 8 (African, Antarctic, Australian, Eurasian, Indian, North American,

Pacific,

South American)

Largest Continent: Asia, 43,820,000 sq km (29.5% of total World landmass)

Smallest Continent: Australia, 9,008,500 sq km

Largest Country: Russia, 17,098,242 sq km

Smallest Country: Vatican City - 0.44 sq km

Largest Ocean: The Pacific Ocean - 155,557,000 sq km

Smallest Ocean: Arctic, 14,056,000 sq km

Highest Mountain: Mount Everest, 29,029 ft - Nepal

Longest River: The Nile - 6,650 km

Largest Lake: The Caspian Sea - 371,000 sq km

Average Life Expectancy: 67.2 years

India at a glance

Capital: New Delhi

Area: 3.3 Million sq. km

Latitude: 6 44' and 35 30' north latitude

Longitude: 68 7' and 97 25' east longitude

Official Language: Hindi

Total Recognized Languages: 22


3/100


4/100

Time Zone: GMT + 05:30

Density of Population: 370.8/km2

Life Expectancy Rate

Male: 65.8 years

Female: 68.1 years

Ethnic Groups: Australoid, Mongoloid, Europoid, Caucasian, and Negroid

National Days: 26th January (Republic Day)

15th August (Independence Day)

2nd October (Gandhi Jayanti; Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday)


5/100

National Bird: Indian peacock

National Flower: Lotus

National Tree: Banyan Tree

National River: The Ganga

National Aquatic Animal: River Dolphin

National Animal: Tiger

National Fruit: Mango

India's First...... Governor-General of Independent IndiaLord Lewis Mountbatten

Indian Governor-General of Independent IndiaChakravarti Rajgopalachari

Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free IndiaGeneral Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1949

Field MarshallGeneral S. H. F. J. Manekshaw

Speaker of loksabhaShri G.V. Mavalankar (15 May 1952- 27 February 1956).

PresidentDr. Rajendra Prasad

Vice-PresidentDr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan

Prime-MinisterPt. Jawahar Lal Nehru

Home MinisterSardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

Finance Minister of IndiaR. K. Shanmukham Chetty


6/100

Auditor General of IndiaV. Narahari Rao

Director of CBIDP Kohli

National Security AdviserBrijesh Mishra

Governor of RBISir Osborne Smith

Non-Congress Prime-MinisterMorarji Desai from Janata Party in 1977-79.

British Governor-General of BengalWarren-Hastings

Space travellerS. Leader-Rakesh Sharma

C. S.Satendra Nath Tagore

Woman IASAnna Ranjan George, 1950

Swimmer who crossed over the English channel by swimmingMihir Sen

Woman to swim across the English ChannelArati Saha, 1959

Raman-Magsaysay awardeeAcharya Vinoba Bhave

Novel prize winnerRabindra Nath Tagore

Nobel Prize in PhysicsC. V. Raman in 1930

President of National CongressVyomesh Chand Banerjee

Chairman of Lok SabhaG. B. Mavlankar

First Woman Chief MinisterSucheta Kriplani


7/100

Woman Speaker of Lok SabhaSmt. Meira Kumar, 2009

Chief Election CommissionerSukumar Sen

Indian Chairman in International CourtJustice Dr. Nagendra Singh

Foreigner awardee of Bharat RatnaKhan Abdul Gaffar Khan

Leader of the Indian Antarctica MissionDr. Syed Zahuv Quasim

Chief Justice of Supreme CourtJustice Hiralal J. Kaniya

Awarded with Bharat RatnasDr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Chakravarti Rajgopalachari, SirC. B. Raman

Woman Awarded with Bharat RatnasIndira Gandhi

Commandeur of the Order of Arts and LettersMrinal Sen

Chevalier of the Order of Arts and LetterSivaji Ganeshan

Posthumally Bharat Ratna AwardeeLal Bahadur Shastri

Person awarded Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth PurskarG. Shankar Kurup (Malayalam1965)

Woman awarded with Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth PurskarAshapurna Devi, 1976

Woman Sahitya Akademi Award WinnerAmrita Pritam, 1956

Woman Honours GraduateKamini Roy

Woman Director General of PoliceKanchan C Bhattacharya

Successful Surgeon who transplanted heartDr. P. Venugopal


8/100

Woman to received Nobal PrizeMother Teresa

Woman GovernorSarojini Naidu

Licensed PilotJ R D Tata

Woman Air PilotDurba Banerjee

Woman TeacherSavitribai Phule

Successful heart transplanted personDevi Ram (1994)

President of National Human Rights CommissionJustice Rangnath Mishra

Hindi Literature person-awarded Bhartiya Gyan Peeth PurskarSumitra Nandan Pant (1968)

Indian who won the World Billiard awardWilson Jans

Indian who won the Grammy awardPt. Ravi Shankar

Person delivered the Lecture in Hindi in U.N.O.Atal Bihari Bajpai (1977)

Indian member in British House of CommonsDada Bhai Naoroji (1892)

First President of Indian Science CongressSir Asutosh Mukherjee

Mountaineer who scaled Mount Everest 8 timesSherpa-Augarita

Writer who was awarded Vyas SammanRamvilas Sharma

Indian Managing Director of World BankGautam Kazi

Player awarded Padam BhusanC. K. Naidu

Actress to win Padma Shri AwardNargis Dutt, 1958


9/100

Indian players played Davis CupM. Salim and S. M. Jacob (Singles), A. A. Faiyaz and L. S.

Dare (Doubles) (1921)

Tennis Grandslam title winnerMahesh Bhupati

Indian player who played the test cricketK. S. Ranjeet Singh (from England)

Scientist elected for Lok SabhaDr. Meghnad Saha

Scientist awarded Ghanshyam Das Birla awardProf. Ashish Datta (1991)

Literature who was awarded Murti Devi PurskarC. K. Nagraj Rao (1993)

Person, who became High Commission in Great BritainV. K. Krishna-Menon

Indian who was awarded the Lenin Peace PrizeDr. Safuddin Kichlu (1952)

First Indian who contested the election for British ParliamentLal Mohan Ghose

Woman GraduatesKadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883

Woman Chief Justice ofHigh CourtLeila Seth, Himachal Pradesh, 1991

An Indian, appointed the judge of High Court, during the British periodRam Prasad Ram

Indian member of Viceroy Executive CouncilSir. S. P. Sinha

Leanin Peace PrizeSaifuddin Kitchlew

Chairman of Finance CommissionK. C. Niogi

Woman Doctorate of ScienceAsima Chatterjee (1944)

Woman IPSKiran Bedi

Woman Supreme Court judgeKumari Fathima Beevi


10/100

Indian member of American CongressDeleep Singh

Editor of Time MagazineBobby Ghosh

Director ofCBI becoming GovernorAshwani Kumar

Person to reach the North PoleSquadron Leader Sanjay Thapar

Person to reach the South PoleCol Jatinder Kumar Bajaj

Nishan-e-PakistanMorarji Desai, 1990

Magsaysay AwardVinoba Bhave, 1958

Miss WorldReita Faria in 1966

Miss Asia PacificZeenat Aman in 1970

Miss UniverseSushmita Sen in 1994

Miss EarthNicole Faria in 2010

Place to get electricityDarjeeling in 1897

Sound filmAlam Ara (1931) directed by Ardeshir Irani

Colour filmKisan Kanya (1937), directed by Moti B. Gidvani

Oscar winnerBhanu Athaiya for Best Costume Design for Gandhi (film) in 1982.

Dadasaheb Phalke AwardDevika Rani in 1969

Chevalier of the Order of Arts and LettersSivaji Ganesan

Test-tube babyDurga Agarwal, born 1978

NewspaperHickey's Bengal Gazette started in 1760

First Lady DoctorAnandibai Joshi

SatelliteAryabhata, launched on 19 April 1975


11/100

Man to climb Mt EverestTenzing Norgay

Man to climb Mt Everest without oxygenPhu Dorjee, 1984

Woman to climb Mt everestBachendri Pal

District to achieve 100% literacy rateErnakulam district, Kerala, 1990

Captain in TestsC. K. Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England

ODI captainAjit Wadekar

Bowler who made hat-trick in Test CricketHarbhajan Singh

Batsman who made 300 runs in test CricketVirendra Sehwag

First Marshal of Indian Air ForceArjan Singh

Individual Medal in Olympic gamesKD Jadhav

GrandmasterViswanathan Anad

Woman GrandmasterKoneru Humpy

First Indian who individually won the Gold medal in Olympic gamesAbhinav Bindra

First Indian who won the Bronze medal in Boxing in Olympic gamesVijendra Kumar

Fellow of Trinity College, CambridgeSrinivasa Ramanujan

Fellow of the Royal SocietyArdaseer Cursetjee

Timeline of Indian History ...... 2800 BC Indus Valley Civilization begins in the northwestern region of India

2600 BC Mohenjo-daro and Harappa phase of the Indus Valley Civilizationbegins, in Punjab and


12/100

Sindh. Other cities like Lothal, Mehrgarh also emerged during this period.

1600 BC India is invaded by the Aryans from the west

1400 BC The Vedas, the Hindu scripture, was written

600 BC The Upanishads written

599 BC Mahavira, 24th Tirthankar of Jainism is born

563 BC Gautam Buddha, founder of Buddhism is born in Lumbini

527 BC Nirvana of Mahavira

492 BC Bimbisara dies and is succeeded by Ajatashatru in Magadha Empire

483 BC Death of Gautama Buddha in Kushinagar

326 BC Alexander the Great moved into India, King Porus who ruled parts ofthe Punjab, fought

Alexander at the Battle of the Hydaspes River.

321 BC Chandragupta Maurya established Mauryan dynasty defeating DhanaNanda

305 BC Chandragupta Maurya defeats Seleucus Nicator of the Seleucid

Empire.

300 BC Chola dynasty establishes his kingdom over southern India withcapital in Thanjavur

269 BC Ashoka the Great, grandson of Chandragupta Maurya, becomes theemperor of India

261 BC Kalinga War takes place between Magadha Empire and the kingdomof Kalinga.

232 BC Death of King Ashoka

185 BC The Mauryan Empire, collapsed after its emperor Brihadrata wasassassinated by his

general Pusyamitra Sunga who then established the Sunga dynasty


13/100

50 AD Establishment of the Kushan empire by Kujula Kadphises, firstBuddhist stupa is

constructed at Sanchi

300 The Pallava dynasty is established in Kanchi

320 The Gupta dynasty founded by Maharaja Sri Gupta, reunited northern Indiainitiating

the "golden Age" of India

335 King Samudragupta ascends the Gupta throne and expands theempire.

380 Chandragupta II, Samudragupta's son becomes the Gupta Emperor.

450 Invasions by the Huna.

606 Harshavardhana crowned Monarch.

712 First Muslim, Md. Bin Qasim defeats Raja Dahir

1021 Mahmud Ghazni defeats Tarnochalpal and annexes Punjab

1206 Qutb ub-din Aybak establishes the Delhi Sultanate

1221 Genghis Khan invades Punjab

1236 Razia Sultana, only lady ruler of Delhi

1290 Jalal ud-Din Firuz establishes the Khilji sultanate at Delhi

1298 Marco Polo visits India

1336 Vijayanagara Empire established by Harihara I and his brother BukkaRaya I

1398 Timur conquered India resulting in the decline of the Delhi Sultanate

1469 Birth of Guru Nanak Dev

1497 Vasco de Gama's first voyage from Europe to India and back (to 1499)

1526 Babur established the Mughal Empire


14/100

1555 Mughal king Humayun comes to fight Sher Shah and regains India

1556 Humayun dies, and is succeeded by Akbar

1600 Queen Elizabeth I granted a charter to the East India Company established

trading posts

in Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras

1605 Akbar dies, and is succeeded by his son Jehangir.

1612 British arrives India

1632 Taj Mahal construction initiated by Mughal ruler Shah Jahan

1653 Shah Jahan completes Taj Mahal. Shah Jahan dies, and is succeeded by his son

Aurangzeb.

1675 Guru Tegh Bahadur, the ninth Guru of Sikhs is executed in Delhi. Guru GobindSingh

becomes tenth Guru of Sikhs.

1680 Shivaji dies at Raigad, Sambhaji became 2nd Chhatrapati of the MarathaEmpire

1707 Death of Aurangzeb the Mughal emperor.

1757 In Battle of Plassey, Robert Clive, leads British forces which defeated theMughal

governor of Bengal Mir Jafar

1774 Warren Hastings appointed the first governor general of India by the EastIndia

Company

1775 First Anglo-Maratha War

1799 Death of Tipu Sultan

1853 Started Post Service

1853 First Railway established between Bombay and Thane


15/100

1857 Indian Mutiny Rebellion of 1857(10th May)

1857 Establishment of University of Mumbai, University of Madras and Universityof Calcutta

in India

1858 The British government ruled India, Lord Dalhousie becomes the Governor-General of

India

1862 Death of Bahadur Shah Zafar

1869 "Arya Samaj" Established

1876 Queen Victoria was given the title Empress of India by the BritishParliament

1885 Burma became an Indian province

1885 The Indian National Congress was formed (28th December)

1905 The British government divided Bengal into separate Hindu and Muslimsections

1909 Morley-Minto Reforms

1914 World War 1

1915 Mahatma Gandhi returns back to India

1919 Jallianwala Bagh Massacre (13th April)

1920 Mahatma Gandhi became president of Indian National

Congress, Non-cooperation movement Khilafat Movement

1927 Simon Commission

1929 Central Assembly Bombed by Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt.

1930 Purna Swaraj resolution in Lahore, Salt Satyagraha started

1931 Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev Martyred (23rd March)


16/100

1935 Government of India Act

1939 World War 2 began

1940 Muhammad Ali Jinnah demanded that a new country be formed from India

for the

Muslims, which would be called Pakistan

1942 Quit India Movement

1942 Indian National Army Established by Subhas Chandra Bose

1945 World War II ended when United States dropped atomic bombs onHiroshima and

Nagasaki (August)

1946 Royal Indian Navy Mutiny

1946 The British government agreed to grant India independence

1947 British and Indian leaders agreed to divide the country into India andPakistan

1947 India became independent (15th August)

1948 Mahatma Gandhi assassinated Nathuram Godse (30th January)

1950 Constitution of India came into effect and Jawaharlal Nehru became theIndian first

prime minister (26th January)

Highest mountain peak Godwin Austin (k2)Highest Dam Tehri Dam, Uttarakhand

Highest Waterfall Kunchikal waterfall, KarnatakaHighest Gateway Buland Darwaza, Fatehpur Sikri, Uttap Pradesh

Highest Award Bharat RatnaHighest Gallantry Award Paramveer Chakra

Highest Battle field Siachin GlacierHighest rainfall Place Mawsynram, Meghalaya

Highest Airport Leh, LaddakhHighest Lake Cholamu Lake, Sikkim

Highest Tower Qutub Minar, DelhiHighest populated State Bihar


17/100

Highest Radio Station The Leh station of AIRHighest Statue Jain Saint Gomateswara, Karnataka

Largest lake of Fresh water Wular lake, KashmirLargest Temple Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple, Tamil NaduLargest Mosque Jama Masjid, Delhi

Largest Church Se Cathedral, GoaLargest Gurudwara Golden Temple, AmritsarLargest Monastery Tawang Monastery, Arunachal Pradesh

Largest populated city Mumbai, MaharastraLargest Building Rashtrapati Bhawan, DelhiLargest Museum National Museum, Kolkata

Largest Auditorium Sri Shanmukhananda Hall, MumbaiLargest Cinema Theatre Thangam, Madurai

Largest Barrage Farakka Barrage, GangaLargest Delta Sunderban Delta, West BengalLargest Dome Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur, Karnataka

Largest Zoo Zoological Gardens, Alipur, KolkataLargest Exhibition Ground Pragati Maidan Complex, New Delhi

Largest Desert Thar, RajasthanLargest cave temple Kailash temple, Ellora, Maharashtra

Largest Cave Amarnath Cave, Jammu and KashmirLargest Hotel Oberoi Sheraton, Mumbai

Largest State by Area RajasthanLargest State by Population Uttar Pradesh

Largest Hospital B. J Medical College and Civil Hospital, AhmedabadLargest corridor Rameshwaram temple corridor, Tamil Nadu

Largest Post Office Mumbai GPO

Largest forest area state Madhya PradeshLargest Prison Tihar Central Jail, Delhi

Largest Stadium Salt lake Stadium, KolkataLargest Port Mumbai

Largest Lake of Saline water Chika lake, OrissaLargest river island Majuli, Brahmaputra river, AssamLargest Planetarium Birla Planetarium, Kolkata

Largest man-made lake Govind Sagar, Bhakra DamLargest Cantilever Span Bridge Howrah Bridge, Kolkata

Largest library National Library, KolkataLargest Lok Sabha Contituency by area Ladhak

Largest Lok Sabha Contituency bypopulation

Outer Delhi

Longest River GangaLongest tributary river of India Yamuna

Longest coastline State GujaratLongest tunnel Jawahar tunnel, Jammu & Kashmir

Longest national highway NH-7which runs from Varanasi to KanyakumariLongest Dam Hirakud Dam, Orissa


18/100

Longest River Bridge Mahatma Gandhi Setu, PatnaLongest Electric railway line From Delhi to Kolkata via Patna

Longest Railway Platform Kharagpur, W. BengalLongest river which forms estuary Narmada

Logest bridge above water Bandra-Worli Sea Link, Maharastra

Logest distance run train Vivek ExpressLongest nonstop run train Trivandrum Rajdhani

Longest railway bridge Vembanad Rail bridge, KeralaLongest Beach Marina Beach, Chennai

Smallest State by Area GoaSmallest State by Population Sikkim

Smallest Lok Sabha Contituency by area Chandni ChowkSmallest Lok Sabha Contituency by

populationLakshdweep

Tallest building Imperial Tower, Mumbai

Continent and Countries ......Asia

Area 17,212,000 sq. km

Number of Countries 44 countries

Highest point Mount Everest, Nepal

Lowest point Dead Sea, Israel

Most Populous City Shanghai, China

South America

Area 6,880,000 sq. km


Highest point Aconcagua, Argentina

Lowest point Laguna del Carbn, Argentina

Most Populous City Sao Paulo, Brazil


19/100

North America

Area 9,365,000 sq. km


Highest point Mount McKinley, USA

Lowest point Death Valley, USA

Most Populous City Mexico City, Mexico

Africa

Area 11,608,000 sq. km


Highest point Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Lowest point Lake Assal,Djibouti

Most Populous City Lagos, Nigeria

Europe

Area 3,837,000 sq. km


Highest point Mount Elbrus, Russia

Lowest point Caspian Sea, Russia

Most Populous City Moscow, Russia

Antarctica

Area 5,100,000 sq. km


Highest point Vinson Massif, Antarctica


20/100

Lowest point Deep Lake, Vestfold Hills, Antarctica

Most Populous City Villa Las Estrellas, Chilean claim

Australia

Area 2,968,000 sq. km


Highest point Puncak Jaya, Papua Province

Lowest point Lake Eyre, Australia

Most Populous City Sydney, Australia

Other Facts..... Canada has more lakes than all the other countries of the world combined. Kazakistan is the largest landlocked country in the world France covers the most time zones, covering 12 time zones Most overweight population found in Nauru Mongolia is the least densely populated country on Earth with 4 people per square mile Saudi Arabia has no river Suriname is the most jungle covered country in the world, with 91% of its land covered in

jungle Papua New Guinea with 820 languages are spoken, is the most languages spoken country in

world The country with the most neighbors is Russia with 16 neighbors New Zealand is the first country that gave women the right to vote in 1893 The country with the longest shoreline measuring 202,080 km is Canada Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan is the only two countries in the world which are doubly

landlocked Vatican is the only country where there was no birth in 1983 Singapore is the largest country without any farms. Nauru is the only country in the world with no official capital There are more post offices in India than anywhere else in the world New Zealand is the only country which has every climate in the world

Universe at a glance ......

Sun

The Sun is a star that is in the center of the Solar System


21/100

The Sun is recognized as having the largest mass in our Solar System.

It has a diameter of about 1,392,684 km, about 109 times that of Earth

The sun is the closest star to Earth, at a mean distance from our planet of 149.60 million km

Sun fuses 620 million metric tons of hydrogen each second.

At the core, the temperature is about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit (15 million degrees

Celsius)

In February 1974, Skylab was the first manned spacecraft to study the Sun.

Solar flares occur when magnetic fields of the Sun come together and cause hugeexplosions

on the Suns surface.

Solar flares produce bursts of electromagnetic radiation, x-rays, ultraviolet radiation, visible

light, and radio waves.

Mercury

Mercury is the closest and second smallest in the Solar System.

Mercury is the second densest planet after Earth.

The only visit to Mercury was a flyby made by the Mariner 10 spacecraft in 1974.

Mercury speeds around the sun every 88 days, traveling through space at nearly 50 km (31

miles) per second

Galileo first observed Mercury during the 17th century.

Venus

Venus is the second closest and sixth largest planet in the Solar System

The orbital speed of Venus is 35 km per second.

Venus is the hottest planet in the Solar System.

Venus appears to be the brightest planet in the sky.

It takes 244.7 days for Venus to rotate on its axis.


22/100

The first robotic space probe mission to Venus, and the first to any planet, began on 12

February 1961, with the launch of the Venera 1 probe.

Earth

Earth formed approximately 4.54 billion years ago, and life appeared on its surface within

one billion years.

The Earth is the densest planet in the Solar System.

Earth is the fifth largest planet in the Solar System.

The Diameter of the Earth is 12,756 km (7,926 miles)

The earths orbital speed is 29.8 km per second.

Earth atmosphere consists of 78 percent nitrogen, 21 percent oxygen and 1 percent other

ingredients..

Earth rotates about its own axis 366.26 times, creating 365.26 solar days

Moon

The Moon is Earths lone natural satellite.

In 1610, Galileo Galilei is the first to use a telescope to make scientific observations of theMoon.

The Moon is the fifth largest satellite in our Solar System.

The Moons diameter is 2160 miles (3476 km)

Average distance between the Earth and the Moon is about 239,000 miles. Actual distance

varies from 221,457 to 252,712 miles.

The Moons gravity is 1/6 that of Earth.

The Moon does not have an atmosphere; there is no wind on the Moon.

Apollo 11 was the American space mission to first reach and land on the moon.

The first human landing on the Moon was on 20 July 1969.


23/100

The Moon orbits around the Earth every 29 days.

Mars

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second smallest planet in the Solar System.

iron oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish appearance, often described as Red

Planet

A Mars year is equal to 686.98 Earth Days

A day in Mars is equal to 24.6 Earth Hours

Like Earth, Mars experiences seasons because of the tilt of its rotational axis

Asaph Hall discovered both of Mars moons, Phobos and Deimos, in August 1877.

Mariner 4 first successful flyby mission to Mars. Launched on November 28, 1964 and

arrived at Mars on July 14, 1965.

Viking 1 Successful orbit and landing on surface of Mars. Launched August 20, 1975 and

arrived at Mars July 20, 1976.

Jupitar

Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, is 318 times larger than Earth.

The orbital speed of Jupiter is 13.1 km/sec

A year on Jupiter is equal to 11.9 Earth Years

Jupiter has 67 natural satellites.[105] Of these, 51 are less than 10 kilometres in diameter

and have only been discovered since 1975.

Galileo Galilei had discovered Jupiter's four largest moons, now called Io, Europa,

Ganymede, and Callisto. These four moons are known today as the Galilean satellites.

In 1610, Galileo Galilei makes the first detailed observations of Jupiter.

Jupiter's moon Ganymede is the biggest satellite in solar system

Jupiter has rings, the third planet discovered to have a ring system in our Solar System.


24/100

Jupiters rings are identified as: Halo ring, Main ring, Amalthea gossamer ring, and Thebe

gossamer ring.

Jupiters rings were discovered by Voyager 1 in 1979.

Saturn

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest.

Saturn has 62 known moons, fifty-three have been named. Most of them are small in size.

Names of some of Saturns moons: the largest is Titan, discovered in 1655; Tethys, Dione,

Rhea, & Iapetus, discovered from 1671 to 1672; Mimas & Enceladus, discovered in 1789; and

Hyperion, discovered in 1848.

A year on Saturn is equal to 29.5 Earth Years

Pioneer 11 is the first spacecraft to reach Saturn, in 1979

Saturn has a prominent ring system that consists of nine continuous main rings and three

discontinuous arcs, composed mostly of ice particles with a smaller amount of rocky debris and

dust.

Uranus

The orbital speed of Uranus is 6.6 km/sec

Uranus takes 84 Earth years to complete one orbit.

Uranus is the third largest planet in the Solar System.

Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit Uranus,

A day on Uranus is equal to a little more than 17 hours on Earth.

Uranus has 27 known moons, named for characters from the works of William Shakespeare

or Alexander Pope

Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel in 1781

Neptune

Neptune is the fourth largest planet and coolest planet in the Solar System.


25/100

Neptune was the first planet located through mathematical predictions rather than through

regular observations of the sky.

Neptune was discovered by Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams, and Johann Galle on

September 23, 1846.

The only spacecraft ever to visit Neptune was Voyager 2 in 1989.

The magnetic field of Neptune is about 27 times more powerful than that of Earth.

One Neptune year is equal to 164.83 Earth Years

Neptune has six known rings.

In 2011, Neptune completes its first 165-year orbit of the sun since its discovery in 1846.

Neptune has 13 moons, the largest of which is named Triton. The other moons are: Naiad,

Thalassa, Despina, Galatea, Larissa, Proteus, Nereid, Halimede, Sao, Laomedeia, Neso, and Psamathe.

Pluto

Pluto is the smallest planet in the Solar System, now consider as dwarf planet

Pluto is colder than Neptune.

Plutos journey around the Sun takes 248 Earth years.

Pluto is the second most contrast body in the Solar System

Pluto has not yet been visited by a spacecraft.

Pluto has a satellite, Charon, which was discovered (in 1978). The distance between them is

19,640 km (12,200 miles).The other 3 are Nix, Hydra, and newly discovered S/2011 P 1 on July of

2011.

Pluto rotation (a Pluto day) takes 6.4 Earth days, meaning that it has the second slowest

rotation in the Solar System after Venus

Pluto was discovered by Tombaugh in 1930

World at a glance ......

Total Surface Area: 510,064,472 sq km


26/100

Total Land Area: 148,940,000 sq km (29.2% of Planet Earth's surface)

Total Water Area: 361,132,000 sq km (70.8% of Planet Earth's surface)

Total Population: 7.04 billion

Total Weight: 5.9722 1024

Kg

Total Volume: 1.083211012 km3

Total Age: 4.54 billion years

Surface Gravity: 32.041 ft/s2

Distance from Moon: 384,403 km

Distance from Sun: 150 million km

Equatorial Radius: 6,378.1 km

Mean Radius: 6,371.0 km

Polar Radius: 6,356.8 km

Orbiting Speed: 29.78 km/s

Orbiting Time: 365.256363004 days

Surface Temperature: -88/5(min/max)C

Orbit Size around Sun: 92,956,050 miles (Semi Major Axis)

Period of Rotation: 23.934 hours

Speed of Rotation: 1670 km/hr

Distance from nearest Planet: 38 million km from Venus

Total Continent: 7 (Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, South America, Australia,

Antarctica)

Total Ocean: 5 ( Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic )


27/100

UN Recognized Countries: 193

Total Seas: 137

Primary Tectonic Plates: 8 (African, Antarctic, Australian, Eurasian, Indian, North American, Pacific,

South American)

Largest Continent: Asia, 43,820,000 sq km (29.5% of total World landmass)

Smallest Continent: Australia, 9,008,500 sq km

Largest Country: Russia, 17,098,242 sq km

Smallest Country: Vatican City - 0.44 sq km

Largest Ocean: The Pacific Ocean - 155,557,000 sq km

Smallest Ocean: Arctic, 14,056,000 sq km

Highest Mountain: Mount Everest, 29,029 ft - Nepal

Longest River: The Nile - 6,650 km

Largest Lake: The Caspian Sea - 371,000 sq km

Average Life Expectancy: 67.2 years

First in the World

Sgnificance Achiver

Asian city to host Olympics Tokyo, Japan, 1964

Athlete disqualified at the Olympics for drug use Hans-Gunnar Lijenwall, Mexico

Olympics, 1968

Blind person to conquer the Everest Erik Weihenmayer, USA, 2001

Cricket Club Cricket club founded in Hambledon,England

Country to Print Books China

Country to issue paper currency China

Country to start Civil Service Competition China

Country to make education compulsory Prussia

Country to win World Cup football Uruguay


28/100

Country to make a constitution USA

Country to Organize NAM Summit Belgrade

Country to send human to Moon USA

Country to launch satellite into space Russia

Country to host modern Olympics Greece

Country to launch Radio Telescope Satellite intospace

Japan

European to visit China Marco Polo

Man to climb Mt Everest Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary,

1953

Man to reach North Pole Robert Peary

Man to reach South Pole Ronald Amundsen

Man to Fly an aeroplan Wright Brothers

Man to sail around the World Ferdinand Magellan

Man to set foot on the Moon Neil Armstrong

Man to go to the space Major Yuri GagarinMan to draw the map of Earth Anexemander

Man to compile Encyclopedia Aspheosis

Man to win Nobel Prize in Literature Rene FA and Silt Pradhom

Man to win Nobel Prize in Peace Jin F Dunant nad Frederic Peiry

Man to win Nobel Prize in Physics WK Roentgen

Man to win Nobel Prize in Chemistry JH Wenthoff

Man to win Nobel Prize in Medicine AE Wonn Behring

Man to win Nobel Prize in Economics Ranger Fish and John Tinbergen

Man to sail around the World alone Joshua Slocum

Man tourist in Space Dennis Tito

Man to have climbed Mount Everest Twice Nawang Gombu

Man Oscar winner for the Best Actor Emil Jannings, 1928

Man to win Tour de France Maurice Garin, 1903

Man boxing champion Tim Hyer, 1841

Man chess champion Wilhelm Steinitz, 1886

Man to walk in space Alexei Arkhovich Leonov, 1965

Man heart transplant was per formed by Dr. Christian Barnard, 1967

Man heart transplant recipient Louis Washkansky, 1967

Man to fly solo non stop across the Atlantic Charles Lindbergh, 1927

Man to swim across the English Channel Matthew Webb, 1875

Man to fly solo nonstop around the world in ballon Steve Fossett, U.S., 2002Man to cross the Pacific Ocean in hot air balloon Ben Abruzzo and team in the Double

Eagle V

Movie in the world The jazz Singer , 1927

Parkinsons disease was first described by James Parkinson, British neurologist,

1817

Religion of the world Santosh Dharma


29/100

Recipient of a permanent artificial heart Barney Clark, 1982

Secretary General of UN Trigve Li

Space shuttle launched Colombia

Space ship landed on Moon Viking-1

Space vehicle to land on the moon Lunar Exploration Module (LEM)

Woman tourist in Space Mrs Anousheh AnsariWoman civilian police adviser of the U.N. Kiran Bedi

Woman Bishop Rev Barbara C. Harris (USA)

Woman to win Nobel Prize in Literature Selma Lagerlf

Woman to win Nobel Prize in Peace Bertha von Suttner

Woman to win Nobel Prize in Physics Marie Curie-Skodowska

Woman to win Nobel Prize in Chemistry Marie Curie-Skodowska

Woman to win Nobel Prize in Medicine Gerty Theresa Cori

Woman to win Nobel Prize in Economics Elinor Ostrom

Woman Prime Minister of a Country S Bhandarnayake

Woman Cosmonaut in Space Valentina Tereshkova, USSRWoman to Climb Mt. Everest Juno Tabei, Japan

Woman President of UN General assembly Vijayalakshmi Pandit

Woman to reach North Pole Mrs Fran Phipps

Woman to reach Antartica Caroline Michaelson

Woman President of a Country Maria Estela Peron

Woman to sail around the world alone Kat Cotte

Woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal Charlotte Cooper, UK, Tennis singles,

1900

Woman professional bullfighter Patricia Mccormick, 1952

Womens Olympic marathon Champion Joan Benoit, Los Angles, 1984

Woman to Climb Mt. Everest twice Santosh Yadav

Woman Oscar winner for Best Actress janet Gaynor, 1928

Woman black tennis player to win a singles title at

Wimbledon

A Gibson, 1957

Woman to win a Grand Slam Maureen Catherine, 1953

Woman to swim the English Channel Gertrude Ederle, 1926

Woman to set foot on North Pole Ann Bancroft, USA, 1986

University of the world Taxila University

Top ten in the World....

LARGEST CITIES ON THE PLANET BY POPULATION

1. Shanghai 17,836,133

2. Istanbul 13,483,052


30/100

3. Karachi 13,052,000

4. Mumbai 12,478,447

5. Moscow 11,810,000

6. Beijing 11,716,000

7. So Paulo 11,316,149

8. Tianjin 11,090,314

9. Guangzhou 11,070,654

10. Delhi 11,007,835

COUNTRY POPULATION (Largest)

1. China 1,347,350,000

2. India 1,210,193,000

3. USA 313,686,000

4. Indonesia 237,641,000

5. Brazil 192,376,000

6. Pakistan 179,764,000

7. Nigeria 162,471,000

8. Russia 143,100,000

9. Bangladesh 142,319,000

10. Japan 127,610,200

COUNTRIES (Highest Density) (people per square km)

1. Monaco 16,205

2. Singapore 6,386

3. Malta 1,261


31/100


32/100

5. Makalu I 27,765 ft (8,462 m) Nepal

6. Cho Oyu 26,906 ft (8,201 m) Nepal

7. Dhaulagiri 26,794 ft (8,167 m) Nepal

8. Manaslu I 26,758 ft (8,156 m) Nepal

9. Nanga Parbat 26,658 ft (8,125 m) Pakistan

10. Annapurna I 26,545 ft (8,091 m) Nepal

LARGEST COUNTRIES (by Land Mass)

1. Russia 6,592,846 sq miles (17,075,400 sq km)

2. Canada 3,602,707 sq miles (9,330,970 sq km)

3. China 3,600,947 sq miles (9,326,410 sq km)

4. USA 3,539,242 sq miles (9.166,600 sq km)

5. Brazil 3,265,075 sq miles (8,456,510 sq km)

6. Australia 2,941,283 sq miles (7,617,930 sq km)

7. India 1,147,949 sq miles (2,973,190 sq km)

8. Argentina 1,056,636 sq miles (2,736,690 sq km)

9. Kazakhstan 1,049,150 sq miles (2,717,300 sq km)

10. Sudan 917,374 sq miles (2,376,000 sq km)

CONTINENTS (by size)

1. Asia 44,579,000 sq km

2. Africa 30,221,000 sq km

3. North America 24,256,000 sq km

4. South America 17,819,000 sq km

5. Antarctica 13,209,000 sq km


33/100

6. Europe 9,938,000 sq km

7. Australia/Oceania 7,687,000 sq km

CONTINENTS (by Population)

1. Asia 4,140,336,501

2. Africa 1,020,201.229

3. Europe 738,523,843

4. North America 528,720/588

5. South America 385,742,554

6. Australia/Oceania 36,102.071

7. Antarctica 0

OCEANS OF THE WORLD (by Size)

1. Pacific 155,557,000 sq km

2. Atlantic 76,762,000 sq km

3. Indian 68,556,000 sq km

4. Southern 20,327,000 sq km

5. Arctic 14,056,000 sq km

DEEPEST OCEANS & SEAS

1. Pacific Ocean 35,827 ft (10,924 m)

2. Atlantic Ocean 30,246 ft (9,219 m)

3. Indian Ocean 24,460 ft (7,455 m)

4. Caribbean Sea 22,788 ft (6,946 m)

5. Arctic Ocean 18,456 ft (5,625 m)

6. South China Sea 16,456 ft (5,016 m)


34/100

7. Bering Sea 15,659 ft (4,773 m)

8. Mediterranean Sea 15,197 ft (4,632 m)

9. Gulf of Mexico 12,425 ft (3,787 m)

10. Japan Sea 12,276 ft (3,742 m)

MAJOR ISLANDS (by Size)

1. Australia 7,617.930 sq km

2. Greenland 2,175,600 sq km

3. New Guinea 792,500 sq km

4. Borneo 725,500 sq km

5. Madagascar 587,000 sq km

6. Baffin 507,500 sq km

7. Sumatra 427,300 sq km

8. Honshu 227,400 sq km

9. Great Britain 218,100 sq km

10. Victoria 217,300 sq km

MAJOR RIVERS (by Length)

1. Nile, Africa 6,825 km

2. Amazon, South America 6,437 km

3. Chang Jiang (Yangtze), Asia 6,380 km

4. Mississippi, North America 5,971 km

5. Yenisey-Angara, Asia 5,536 km

6. Huang (Yellow), Asia 5,464 km

7. Ob-Irtysh, Asia 5,410 km


35/100

8. Amur, Asia 4,416 km

9. Lena, Asia 4,400 km

10. Congo, Africa 4,370 km

MAJOR LAKES (by Size)

1. Caspian Sea, Asia-Europe 371,000 sq km

2. Superior, North America 82,100 sq km

3. Victoria, Africa 69,500 sq km

4. Huron, North America 59,600 sq km

5. Michigan, North America 57,800 sq km

6. Tanganyika, Africa 32,900 sq km

7. Baikal, Asia 31,500 sq km

8. Great Bear, North America 31,300 sq km

9. Aral Sea, Asia 30,700 sq km

10. Malawi, Africa 28,900 sq km

SMALLEST COUNTRIES (by Land Mass)

1. Vatican City 0.17 sq miles (0.44 sq km)

2. Monaco 0.75 sq miles (1.95 sq km)

3. Nauru 8.2 sq miles (21.2 sq km)

4. Tuvalu 10 sq miles (26 sq km)

5. San Marino 24 sq miles (61 sq km)

6. Liechtenstein 62 sq miles (160 sq km)

7. Marshall Islands 70 sq miles (181 sq km)

8. Seychelles 104 sq miles (270 sq km)


36/100

9. Maldives 116 sq miles (300 sq km)

10. St. Kitts and Nevis 139 sq miles (360 sq km)

LARGEST DESERTS OF THE WORLD

1. Sahara, North Africa 3,320,000 sq. miles

2. Arabian, Middle East 900,000 sq. miles

3. Kalahari, Southern Africa 360,000 sq. miles

4. Great Victoria, Australia 250,000 sq. miles

5. Syrian, Syria, Jordan, Iraq 200,000 sq. miles

6. Chihuahuan, Mexico, U.S. 175,000 sq. miles

7. Great Sandy, Australia 150,000 sq. miles

8. Sonoran, Mexico, U,S, 120,000 sq. miles

9. Thar, India, Pakistan 77,000 sq. miles

10. Gibson, Australia 60,000 sq. miles

Country, Capital and Indepandance DayNo Country Capital Independence Day

/Natonal Day

1 Abkhazia Sukhum 4th July

2 Afghanistan Kabul 19th August

3 Albania Tirana 28th November

4 Algeria Algiers 5th July

5 American Samoa Pago Pago 1st January

6 Andorra Andorra la Vella 8th September

7 Angola Luanda 11th November

8 Anguilla The Valley 30th May

9 Antigua and Barbuda Saint John's 1st November

10 Argentina Buenos Aires 9th July

11 Armenia Yerevan 21st September

12 Aruba Oranjestad 1st January

13 Australia Canberra 26th January


37/100

14 Austria Vienna 26th October

15 Azerbaijan Baku 30th August

16 Bahamas Nassau 10th July

17 Bahrain Manama 15th August

18 Bangladesh Dhaka 26th March

19 Barbados Bridgetown 30th November20 Belarus Minsk 3rd July

21 Belgium Brussels 21st July

22 Belize Belmopan 21st September

23 Benin Porto-Novo 1st August

24 Bermuda Hamilton 24th May

25 Bhutan Thimphu 8th August

26 Bolivia La Paz 6th August

27 Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo 1st March

28 Botswana Gaborone 30th September

29 Brazil Braslia 7th September30 British Virgin Islands Road Town 1st July

31 Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan 1st January

32 Bulgaria Sofia 22th September

33 Burkina Faso Ouagadougou 5th August

34 Burma Naypyidaw 4th January

35 Burundi Bujumbura 1st July

36 Cambodia Phnom Penh 9th November

37 Cameroon Yaound 1st January

38 Canada Ottawa 1st July

39 Cape Verde Praia 5th July

40 Cayman Islands George Town

41 Central African Republic Bangui 13th August

42 Chad N'Djamena 11th August

43 Chile Santiago 18th September

44 China (People's

Republic of China)

Beijing 1st October

45 Christmas Island Flying Fish Cove

46 Cocos Islands West Island

47 Colombia Bogot 20th July

48 Comoros Moroni 6th July

49 Cook Islands Avarua50 Costa Rica San Jos 15th September

51 Cte d'Ivoire Yamoussoukro 7th August

52 Croatia Zagreb 8th October

53 Cuba Havana 20th May

54 Curaao Willemstad

55 Cyprus Nicosia 1st October


38/100

56 Czech Republic Prague 1st January

57 Democratic Republic of

the Congo

Kinshasa 30th June

58 Denmark Copenhagen

59 Djibouti Djibouti 27th June

60 Dominica Roseau 3rd November61 Dominican Republic Santo Domingo 27th February

62 East Timor Dli 29th May

63 Ecuador Quito 24th May

64 Egypt Cairo 28th February

65 El Salvador San Salvador 15th September

66 Equatorial Guinea Malabo

67 Eritrea Asmara 24th May

68 Estonia Tallinn 20th August

69 Ethiopia Addis Ababa

70 Faroe Islands Trshavn71 Fiji Suva 10th October

72 Finland Helsinki 6th December

73 France Paris

74 French Guiana Cayenne

75 French Polynesia Papeete

76 Gabon Libreville 17th August

77 The Gambia Banjul 18th February

78 Georgia Tbilisi 9th April

79 Germany Berlin 18th January

80 Ghana Accra 6th March

81 Gibraltar Gibraltar

82 Greece Athens 25th March

83 Greenland Nuuk

84 Grenada St. George's 7th February

85 Guadeloupe Basse-Terre

86 Guam Hagta

87 Guatemala Guatemala City 15th September

88 Guernsey Saint Peter Port

89 Guinea Conakry 2nd October

90 Guinea-Bissau Bissau 24th September

91 Guyana Georgetown 26th May92 Haiti Port-au-Prince 1st January

93 Honduras Tegucigalpa 15th September

94 Hungary Budapest 15th March

95 Iceland Reykjavk 1st December

96 India New Delhi 15th August

97 Indonesia Jakarta 17th August


39/100

98 Iran Tehran

99 Iraq Baghdad 3rd October

100 Ireland Dublin 24th April

101 Isle of Man Douglas

102 Israel Jerusalem 14th May

103 Italy Rome 17th March104 Jamaica Kingston 6th August

105 Japan Tokyo 11th February

106 Jersey St. Helier 9th May

107 Jordan Amman 25th May

108 Kazakhstan Astana 16th December

109 Kenya Nairobi 12th December

110 Kiribati Tarawa 12th July

111 Kosovo Prishtin 17th February

112 Kuwait Kuwait City 25th February

113 Kyrgyzstan Bishkek 31st August114 Laos Vientiane 9th July

115 Latvia Riga 18th November

116 Lebanon Beirut 22nd November

117 Lesotho Maseru 4th October

118 Liberia Monrovia 26th July

119 Libya Tripoli 24th December

120 Liechtenstein Vaduz 23rd January

121 Lithuania Vilnius 11th March

122 Luxembourg Luxembourg 23rd June

123 Macedonia Skopje 8th September

124 Madagascar Antananarivo 26th June

125 Malawi Lilongwe 6th July

126 Malaysia Kuala Lumpur 31st August

127 Maldives Mal 26th July

128 Mali Bamako 22nd September

129 Malta Valletta 21st September

130 Marshall Islands Majuro 21st October

131 Martinique Fort-de-France

132 Mauritania Nouakchott 28th November

133 Mauritius Port Louis 12th March

134 Mayotte Mamoudzou135 Mexico Mexico City 16th September

136 Federated States of

Micronesia

Palikir 3rd November

137 Moldova Chiinu 27th August

138 Monaco Monaco-ville

139 Mongolia Ulaanbaatar 29th December


40/100

140 Montenegro Podgorica 21st May

141 Montserrat Brades Estate

142 Morocco Rabat 18th November

143 Mozambique Maputo 25th June

144 Nagorno-Karabakh Stepanakert 2nd September

145 Namibia Windhoek 21st March146 Nauru Yaren (de facto) 31st january

147 Nepal Kathmandu

148 Netherlands Amsterdam 5th May

149 New Caledonia Nouma

150 New Zealand Wellington 26th September

151 Nicaragua Managua 15th September

152 Niger Niamey 3rd August

153 Nigeria Abuja 1st October

154 Niue Alofi

155 North Borneo Kota Kinabalu156 Norfolk Island Kingston

157 North Korea P'yngyang 9th September

158 Northern Cyprus North Nicosia 2nd September

159 Northern Ireland Belfast

160 Northern Mariana

Islands

Saipan

161 Norway Oslo 7th June

162 Oman Muscat

163 Pakistan Islamabad 14th August

164 Palau Ngerulmud 1st October

165 Palestinian National

Authority

Ramallah and Gaza

166 Panama Panama City 28th November

167 Papua New Guinea Port Moresby 16th September

168 Paraguay Asuncin 14th May

169 Peru Lima 28th July

170 Philippines Manila 12th June

171 Pitcairn Islands Adamstown

172 Poland Warsaw 11th November

173 Portugal Lisbon 1st December

174 Puerto Rico San Juan175 Qatar Doha 3rd Sptember

176 Republic of the Congo Brazzaville 15th August

177 Runion Saint-Denis

178 Romania Bucharest 9th May

179 Russia Moscow 24th August

180 Rwanda Kigali 1st July


41/100

181 Saint Pierre and

Miquelon

Saint-Pierre

182 Saint Helena, Ascension

and Tristan da Cunha

Jamestown

183 Saint Kitts and Nevis Basseterre 19th September

184 Saint Lucia Castries 22nd February185 Saint Vincent and the

Grenadines

Kingstown 27th October

186 Samoa Apia 1st January

187 San Marino San Marino 3rd September

188 So Tom and Prncipe So Tom 12th July

189 Sarawak Kuching 22nd July

190 Saudi Arabia Riyadh 23rd September

191 Senegal Dakar 4th April

192 Serbia Belgrade 15th February

193 Seychelles Victoria 29th June194 Sierra Leone Freetown 27th April

195 Singapore Singapore City 9th August

196 Sint Maarten Philipsburg

197 Slovakia Bratislava 17th July

198 Slovenia Ljubljana 25th June

199 Solomon Islands Honiara 7th July

200 Somalia Mogadishu 1st July

201 South Africa Pretoria (administrative capital), Cape

Town (legislative capital), Bloemfontein,

(judicial capital)

11th December

202 South Korea Seoul 15th August

203 South Sudan Juba 9th July

204 South Ossetia Tskhinval 26th August

205 Spain Madrid 12th October

206 Sri Lanka Colombo 4th February

207 Sudan Khartoum 1st January

208 Suriname Paramaribo 25th November

209 Svalbard Longyearbyen

210 Swaziland Mbabane 6th September

211 Sweden Stockholm 6th June

212 Switzerland Bern 1st August213 Syria Damascus 17th April

214 Taiwan Taipei 10th October

215 Tajikistan Dushanbe 9th September

216 Tanzania Dodoma 9th December

217 Thailand Bangkok

218 Togo Lom 27th April


42/100

219 Tokelau Nukunonu 6th February

220 Tonga Nukualofa 4th June

221 Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain 31st August

222 Tunisia Tunis 20th March

223 Turkey Ankara 29th October

224 Turkmenistan Ashgabat 27th October225 Turks and Caicos

Islands

Cockburn Town 30th August

226 Tuvalu Fongafale (in Funafuti) 1st October

227 Uganda Kampala 9th October

228 Ukraine Kiev 24th November

229 United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi 2nd December

230 United Kingdom London 1st May

231 United States Washington, D.C. 4th July

232 Uruguay Montevideo 25th August

233 Uzbekistan Tashkent 1st September234 Vanuatu Port Vila 30th July

235 Vatican City Vatican City 11th February

236 Venezuela Caracas 5th July

237 Vietnam Hanoi 2nd September

238 Virgin Islands of the

United States

Charlotte Amalie

239 Wallis and Futuna Mat'Utu 14th July

240 Yemen Sana'a 30th November

241 Zambia Lusaka 24th October

242 Zimbabwe Harare 18th April

Highest, Longest, Largest, Tallest, Smallest

etc... in World

Significance Place

Bussiest Passenger Station Shinjuku Station

Busiest Passenger Airport Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport,USA

Biggest City in area New YorkColdest inhabitated Place Oymyakon, Russia

Driest Place Atacama Desert, Chile

Deepest Lake Baikal, Siberia

Fastest Bird Swift

Highest Railway Station Tanggula Station, Tibet, China

Highest Plateau Pamir, Tibet


43/100

Highest Lake Titicaca , Bolivia

Highest Mountain Peak Everest. Nepal

Highest Volcano Ojos del Salado, Andes, Ecuador

Highest Waterfall Angel Falls, Venezuela

Highest Capital La Paz , Bolivia

Highest City La Rinconada, PeruHighest Airport Lhasa Airport, Tibet

Hottest inhabitated Place Dallol, Ethiopia

Largest Archipelago Indonesia

Largest Continent Asia

Largest Country by Population China

Largest Country by Size Russia

Largest Bird Ostrich

Largest City in population Tokyo

Largest Creature Blue Whale

Largest Delta Sunderban, Bangladesh & IndiaLargest Desert Sahara, Africa

Largest Dam Three Gorges, China

Largest Diamond Cullinan Diamond

Largest Dome Cowboys Stadium, Texas, USA

Largest Epic Mahabharata

Largest Island Greenland

Largest Sea South China Sea

Largest Artificial Lake by Surface Area Lake Volta, Ghana

Largest Artificial Lake by Surface

Volume

Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe and Zambia

Largest Fresh Water Lake Superior Lake

Largest Salt Water Lake Caspian Lake

Largest Library United States Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

Largest Museum The Hermitage Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Largest Ocean Pacific Ocean

Largest National Park NorthEast Geenland National Park

Largest Single-Aperture Radio

Telescope

Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico

Largest Zoo by species Berlin Zoological Garden

Largest Zoo by area Red McCombs Wildlife, Texas, USA

Largest Peninsula ArabiaLargest Railway Station Grand Central Terminal, Chicago ( U.S.A. )

Largest River Amazon, South America

Largest Sea - bird Albatross

Largest Fountain Suntec city fountain of Wealth, Singapore

Largest Sewage Tunnel The Chicago Tunnel, USA

Largest Inhabited Castle Windsor Castle, UK


44/100

Largest Orthodox Cathedral The Cathedral Church of Christ, Russia

Largest Pyramid Quetzalcoatl Pyramid

Largest Drainage Basin The Amazon Basin

Largest Cave Passage Son Doong cave, Vietnam

Lagest Glacier Lambert Glacier

Largest Swamp The Pantanal Swamp, BrazilLargest River Island Majuli, India, Assam

Largest Airport Terminal Beijing Capital International Airport, China

Largest Bay Hudson Bay, Canada

Largets Cemetary Ohlsdorf Cemetary, Hamburg, Germeny

Largest Church St. Peter's Basilica, Vetican City, Rome

Largest Lagoon Grand Lagon Sud, New Caledonia

Largest Mosque Imam Reza Shrine, Iran

Largest Convention Center World Market Center, Las Vegas, USA

Largest Gulf Gulf of Mexico

Largest Hotel The Venetian & The Palazzo, Las Vegas, USALargest Stadium Strahov Stadium, Prague

Largest Bus Fleet Andra Pradesh State Road Transport

Corporation,India

Largest Medical Center Texas Medical Center, USA

Largest Irrigation Canal All-American Canal

Largest Container Ship CMA CGM Marco Polo

Longest Railway Bridge DanyangKunshan Grand Bridge, China

Longest Irrigation Canal Karakum Canal

Longest Canal The Grand Canal, China

Longest Mountain Range Andes, South America

Longest Platform Kharagpur, India

Longest Railway Trans - Siberian railway

Longest Railway Tunnel Seikan Tunnel, Japan

Longest Road Tunnel Laedal Tunnel, Norway

Longest Wall Great Wall of China

Longest River Nile , Africa

Lowest Water Body Dead Sea

Most Active Volcano Maunaloa,Hawaii, U.S.A

Rainiest Place Mausinram, Meghalaya, India

Smallest Bird Humming Bird

Smallest Continent by Area AustraliaSmallest Country by Area Vatican City

Smallest Country by Population Vatican City

Tallest Animal Giraffe

Tallest Dam Nurek Dam, Tajikistan

Tallest Building Burj Khalifa, Dubai, UAE

Tallest Railway Station Building Nagoya Station, Japan


45/100

Tallest Statue Spring Temple Buddha, china

Tallest Monument Gateway Arch, USA

United Nations ......Established 24th October 1945 by 51 countries

Headquarter New York, United States

Official languages Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish

Total Membership 193 member

Present Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

First Secretary General Trygve Lie, Norway

United Nations was established San Francisco City

Permanent Members in Security Council Russia, USA, France, China and UK.

Logo designer of the United Nations Donal McLaughlin

Newest Member in UN South Sudan, 14th July 2011

Six Principal Organs The General Assembly

The Security Council

The Economic and Social Council

The Secretariat

The International Court of Justice

The United Nations Trusteeship Council

Organizations and specialized agencies of the United Nations

Name Headquarters Established

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Rome, Italy 1945


46/100

International Labour Organization (ILO) Geneva, Switzerland 1946

International Maritime Organization (IMO) London, United Kingdom 1948

World Food Programme (WFP) Rome, Italy 1963

World Health Organization (WHO) Geneva, Switzerland 1948

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Vienna, Austria 1957

International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Geneva, Switzerland 1947

World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Madrid, Spain 1974

Universal Postal Union (UPU) Bern, Switzerland 1947

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Montreal, Canada 1947

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Rome, Italy 1977

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Washington, D.C., USA 1945

World Bank (WB) Washington, D.C., USA 1945

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Geneva, Switzerland 1974

World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Geneva, Switzerland 1950

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Vienna, Austria 1967

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Paris, France 1946

The UN has 4 main purposes

To keep peace throughout the world

To develop friendly relations among nations

To help nations work together to improve the lives of poor people, to conquer hunger,

disease and illiteracy, and to encourage respect for each others rights and freedoms

To be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations to achieve these goals


47/100

Name of Parliament Houses in the World....

Country Legislature Name Lower

House

Upper

House

Afghanistan National Assembly 250 102Argentina Argentine National Congress 257 72

Australia Parliament of Australia 150 76

Austria Federal Assembly 183 62

Bangladesh House of the Nation 345

Belgium Federal Parliament 150 71

Belize National Assembly 31 12

Bhutan Parliament of Bhutan 47 25

Brazil National Congress 513 81

Brunei Legislative Council 36

Bulgaria National Assembly 240Chile National Congress 120 38

China National People's Congress 2,987

Colombia Congress 166 102

Cuba National Assembly of People's Power 614

Czech Republic Parliament of the Czech Republic 200 81

Denmark Parliament 179

Egypt Parliament 508 270

Finland Parliament 200

France Parliament 577 348

Greece Hellenic Parliament 300

Hungary National Assembly 386

Iceland Assembly of All 63

India Parliament 552 250

Indonesia People's Consultative Assembly 560 132

Iran Assembly 290

Iraq Council of Representatives of Iraq 325

Ireland Parliament 166 60

Israel Assembly 120

Italy Italian Parliament 630 315

Japan Diet 480 242

Jordan National Assembly 120 60Korea, North Supreme People's Assembly 687

Korea, South National Assembly 300

Kuwait National Assembly 50

Libya General National Congress 200

Mauritius National Assembly 70

Mexico Congress of the Union 500 128


48/100

Netherlands States-General 150 75

New Zealand House of Representatives 120

Pakistan Assembly of Councillors 336 104

Russia Federal Assembly 450 166

Singapore Parliament 99

South Africa Parliament 400 90Spain General Courts 350 266

Sri Lanka Parliament 225

Syria People's Assembly 250

Switzerland Federal Assembly 200 46

Ukraine Supreme Council 450

United Arab Emirates Federal National Assembly 40

United Kingdom Parliament 650 765

United States Congress 435 100

Uruguay General Assembly 99 30

Venezuela National Assembly 165Vietnam National Assembly 498

Zimbabwe Parliament 210 40

World Cup Cricket Records....First world cup match was played at Lord's, London on 7th June 1975 between England v India. England

won the match by 202 runs.

DL Amiss from England is the first batsmen to score a hundred in World Cup. He scores 137 against

India in the first match of World Cup.

1975 World Cup is the only ODI World Cup which didn't feature a sub-continent team in the semi-

finals.

Mohinder Amaranth is the first bowler to take wicket in World Cup.

Chetan Sharma was the first bowler to take a hat-trick in a Cricket World Cup.

Sachin Tendulkar of India holds the records of scoring most runs (2278), highest number of centuries

(6) and highest number of fifties (21).

Ricky Ponting of Australia holds the record of most sixes (31), most matches as captain (29), most

catches by a fielder (28) and most appearances (46).

Australian Glenn McGrath take most wickets (71), most wickets in a world cup tournament (26) and

best bowling figures (7-15 against Namibia).


49/100

Adam Gilchrist of Australia holds the record of most dismissals as wicketkeeper (52), most dismissals in

a series (21) and most dismissals in an innings (6).

India holds the record of highest score in a match. India score 413 for 5 wickets against Bermuda in

2007.

Australia hold the records of most wins (55 matches), 100% win in two world cup series (2003 and

2007), most consecutive wins (25 match).

Zimbabwe holds the records of most losses (37 match) and most consecutive defeats (18 matches).

Canada score 36 run against Sri Lanka in 2003 World Cup, which is lowest ever score by a team.

Ireland holds the record of highest successful run chase (329-7) in World Cup. It was against England,

2011.

India wins by 257 run against Bermuda, 2007 which is the highest winning margin by runs in any world

cup match.

Record for highest partnership holds by Rahul Dravid & Sourav Ganguly, India with 318 runs

against Sri Lanka in 1999.

Fastest century score by Kevin O'Brien of Ireland against England (2011) in 50 balls.

MC Snedden, New Zealand conceded most runs in an innings with 105 runs in 12 over against England

in 1983.

Lance Klusener, South Africa holds the record of highest average (124.00) and highest strike rate

(121.17).

Best economy rate by a bowler Andy Roberts of West Indies 3.24.

Zaheer Khan of India with 27.1 holds the record fo best strike rate.

Fastest fifty records hold by New Zealand Brendon McCullum against Canada, in 20 balls

Highest score in an innings by Gary Kirsten of South Africa against UAE. He scores 188.

Scotland concedes most extras in an innings (59) against Pakistan, 1999.

Headingley Cricket Ground, Leeds hosted highest number of matches with 12.

David Shepherd of England attends as umpire in 46 matches which is a record.


50/100

FIFA World Cup FootBall Uruguay is the first nation to win World Cup, 1930. Lucien Laurent of France scored the first goal in World Cup history. Most goals in a tournament by one team by Hungary, with 27 goals in 1954 WorldCup Match. Most goals scored in a tournament is 171 goals in 1998 World Cup Match. With 67 win, Brazil win most matches in World Cup. With 24 losses, Mexico lost most matches in World Cup. Brazil wins World Cup for 5 times (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002), most by any

team. Germany and Brazil finishes most times in top two places in FIFA World Cup, 7 each. Brazil has the record of Most World Cup appearances, 19 times. They have played

every tournament till now from beginning. Most matches played by Lothar Matthus , Germany with 25 matches. Most matches played by Germany, 99 matches. Italy has most draws with 21 matches. Most goals scored by Brazil 210. Most goals conceded by Germany with 117 till now in World Cup. Brazil, In 2002 World Cup win 7 matches, most by any team in a single World Cup

tournament. In 1954 World Cup Hungary scored 27 goals, most goal scored by a team in a single

World Cup tournament. Norman Whiteside, Northern Ireland is the youngest player to appeared in World

Cup at the age of 17 years and 41 days. Roger Milla from Cameroon is the oldest player to play in World Cup at the age of 42

years and 39 days. Most consecutive wins by Brazil with 11 win from 2002 to 2006. Most consecutive losses by Mexico with 9 matches 1930 to 1958. Most tournaments played by Antonio Carbajal, Mexico and Lothar Matthus,

Germany. Both have played 5 World Cup tournaments. Ronaldo, Brazil (19982006) scored most goals in World Cup with 15 goals. Just Fontaine, France scored 13 goals in 1958 World Cup, most goals scored in a

tournament. Cafu from Brazil played most matches won, 16. Diego Maradona, Argentina( 19861994), has the record of Most appearances as

captain with 16 matches. Peter Shilton from England is the oldest captain in World Cup at the age of 40 years

and 292 days. Most goals scored in a match by Oleg Salenko(Russia vs. Cameroon, 1994) with 5

goals. Most goals scored in one Final by Geoff Hurst (England vs. West Germany, 1966)

with 3 goals. Most hat-tricks by Sndor Kocsis (Hungary), Just Fontaine (France), Gerd Mller

(West Germany) and Gabriel Batistuta (Argentina) each 2 times.


51/100

Youngest hat-trick scorer is Pele, Brazil at 17 years and 244 days. Fastest goal in a Fifa World Cup by Hakan kr (Turkey vs. Korea Republic, 2002)

in 10.89 seconds. Most goals scored in a final; by one team is Brazil in 1958 World Cup Match with 5

goals. Most times hosted by Mexico, Italy, France, Germany 1974 and Brazil each 2 times. Most Attendance in World Cup final match is 114,600, Argentina v West Germany,

1986, Mexico World Cup 1986.

Year Host Winners Runners-up

1930 Uruguay Uruguay Argentina1934 Italy Italy Czechoslovakia1938 France Italy Hungary1950 Brazil Uruguay Brazil1954 Switzerland West Germany Hungary1958 Sweden Brazil Sweden

1962 Chile Brazil Czechoslovakia1966 England England West Germany1970 Mexico Brazil Italy1974 West Germany West Germany Netherlands1978 Argentina Argentina Netherlands1982 Spain Italy West Germany1986 Mexico Argentina West Germany1990 Italy West Germany Argentina1994 United States Brazil Italy1998 France France Brazil2002 S Korea & Japan Brazil Germany

2006 Germany Italy France2010 South Africa Spain Netherlands

Father of NationNation Person Name

Afghanistan Ahmad Shah Durrani

Argentina Don Jos de San Martn

Australia Sir Henry ParkesBahamas Sir Lynden Pindling

Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Bolivia Simn Bolvar

Brazil Dom Pedro I andJos Bonifcio de Andrada e Silva

Burma Aung San

Cambodia Norodom Sihanouk


52/100

Chile Bernardo O'Higgins

Republic of China Sun Yat-sen

Colombia Simn Bolvar

Sweden Gustav I of Sweden

Croatia Ante Starevid

Cuba Carlos Manuel de CspedesDominican Republic Juan Pablo Duarte

Ecuador Simn Bolvar

Ghana Kwame Nkrumah

Guyana Cheddi Jagan

Haiti Jean-Jacques Dessalines

India Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Indonesia Sukarno

Iran Cyrus the Great

Israel Theodor Herzl

Italy Victor Emmanuel II

Kenya Jomo Kenyatta

Republic of Korea Kim Gu

Kosovo Ibrahim Rugova

Lithuania Jonas Basanaviius

Macedonia Krste Misirkov

Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman

Mauritius Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam

Mexico Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

Mongolia Genghis Khan

Namibia Sam Nujoma

Netherlands William the Silent

Norway Einar Gerhardsen

Pakistan Mohammad Ali Jinnah

Panama Simn Bolvar

Peru Don Jos de San Martn

Portugal Dom Afonso Henriques

Russia Peter I of Russia

Saudi Arabia Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia

Scotland Donald Dewar

Serbia Dobrica osid

Singapore Lee Kuan Yew

Slovenia Primo Trubar

South Africa Nelson Mandela

Spain Fernando el Catlico

Sri Lanka Don Stephen Senanayake


53/100

Suriname Johan Ferrier

Tanzania Julius Nyerere

Turkey Mustafa Kemal Atatrk

United Arab Emirates Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

United States George Washington

Uruguay Jos Gervasio ArtigasVenezuela Simn Bolvar

Vietnam Ho Chi Minh

Important Intenational Lines......Durand Line: Between Pakistan and Afghanistan, demarcated by Sir Mortimer Durand

in 1896.

Hindenberg Line: The line to which the Germans retreated in 1917 during the First World

War, defines the boundary between Germany and Poland.

Line of Control: It divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan.

Maginot Line: Boundary between France and Germany.

Mannerheim Line: Drawn by General Mannerheim; fortification on the Russia and Finland

border.

McMahon Line: The boundary between India and China as demarcated by Sir

Henry McMahon in 1914.

Oder Niesse Line: Boundary between Germany and Poland.

Radcliffe Line: Drawn by Sir Cyril Radcliffe in 1947 as demarcation between India and

Pakistan.

Seigfrid Line: Line of fortification drawn by Germany on its border with France.

17th Parallel: Boundary between North Vietnam and South Vietnam before two wereunited.

24th Parallel: Line which Pakistan claims for demarcation between India and Pakistan.

This, however, is not recognized by India

26th Parallel south :It is a circle of latitude which crosses through Africa, Australia and South

America.


54/100

30th Parallel north :It is a line of latitude that stands one-third of the way between the

equator and the North Pole.

33rd Parallel north :It is a circle of latitude which cuts through the southern United States,

parts of North Africa, parts of the Middle East, and China.

35th Parallel north: Boundary between the State of North Carolina and the State of Georgia

and the boundary between the State of Tennessee arid the State of

Georgia, the State of Albama, and the State of Mississippi.

36th Parallel: Forms the southermost boundary of the State of Missouri with the State

of Arkansas.

36o30' Parallel north: Forms the boundary between the Tenessee and the Commonwealth of

Kentucky between the Tennessee River and the Mississippi River, the

boundary between Missouri and Arkansas west of the White River, and

the northermost boundary between the Texas and the Oklahoma.

37th Parallel north: It formed the southern boundary of the historic and extralegal Territory

of Jefferson.

38th Parallel :Is the parallel of latitude which separates North Korea and South Korea.

39th Parallel north: Is an imaginary circle of latitude that is 39 degrees north of Earth's

equatorial plane.

40th Parallel north :Formed the original northern boundary of the British Colony ofMaryland.

41st Parallel north :Forms the northern boundary of the State of Colorado with Nebraska

and Wyoming and the southern boundary of the State of Wyoming with

Colorado and Utah.

42nd Parallel north :Forms most of the New York - Pennsylvania Border.

43rd Parallel north :Forms most of the boundary between the State of Nebraska and the

State of South Dakota and also formed the northern border of the

historic and extralegal Territory of Jefferson.

Parallel 44o north :It is an imaginary circle of latitude that is 44 degrees north of the

Earth's equatorial plane.

45th Parallel north: It is often the halfway point between the Equator and the North Pole.


55/100

The 45th parallel: It makes up most of the boundary between Montana and Wyoming.

49th Parallel :It is the boundary between USA and Canada.

Animal World......Biggest Eyes Bird: Ostriches

Biggest Bird: North African ostrich

Deadliest Animal: Female Anopheles mosquitoes, which carry malaria, kill more

than a million people each year.

Fastest animal in Land: Cheetahs can run between 112 and 120 km/hr (70 and 75

mph)

Fastest animal in Water: Sailfish can swim up to 68 miles per hour.

Fastest animal in Air: Peregrine falcons, they can fly 70 miles/hour and dive toward

the earth at more than 200 miles per hour.

Fastest Bird in Land: Ostriches is the fastest bird on land, running up to 40 miles per

hour

Fastest Swimming Bird: Gentoo Penguin can swim 40 km per hour

Fastest Mammal in water: Dall Porpoises can swim up to 35 miles per hour.

Heaviest Flying Bird: The Dalmatian Pelican

Heaviest cephalopod: Colossal squid

Highest jumper: Kangaroo, can jump up to 10ft

Longest arms: The Gibbon

Longest Gestation: Asian elephants are born after a gestation period of 19 to 22months.

Longest Lifespan: Tortoise, more than 150 years

Loudest Animal: Blue whales' low-frequency pulses are as loud as 188 decibels


56/100

Loudest Animal in Land: Howler monkeys, whose howl can be heard 4.8km away.

Longest Migration: Arctic Terns migrate between Greenland and Antarctica each

year travelling about 71,000 kilometers.

Longest jumper: Snow Leopard, can jump up to 15m

Largest Animal: Blue whales are the largest animals of all time.

Largest Animal in land: African elephants are the heaviest and second tallest land

animals.

Largest Invertebrate: Colossal Squid, reaching lengths of 10m, are the largest

invertebrates.

Largest Carnivores: The Southern elephant seal.

Largest Reptile: The Saltwater Crocodile. An adult male saltwater crocodiles

weight is 409 to 1,000 kilograms (9002,200 lb) and length is

normally 4.1 to 5.5 meters (1318 ft).

Largest Snake: The Green Anaconda

Most Venomous Animal: A single box jellyfish has enough venom to kill 60 adult humans

Smallest Mammal: Adult bumblebee bats, which live in Thailand, weigh about two

grams.

Smallest Bird: Male bee hummingbirds weigh 0.056 ounces and are 2.75

inches in length.

Strongest Animal: The rhinoceros beetle can lift 850 times its own weight.

Tallest Land Animal: Giraffe. It stands 56 m (1620 ft) tall

Autobiography ListAuthor Name Book Name Published

Year

Akira Kurosawa Something Like An Autobiography 1981

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Wings of Fire 1999

Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf 1925


57/100

Aerosmith Walk This Way 1997

Agatha Christie An Autobiography 1977

Albert Einstein Autobiographical Notes 1949

Andre Agassi Open: An Autobiography 2009

Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl 1947

Annie Besant Annie Besant: An Autobiography 1908Arnold

Schwarzenegger

Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

Bill Clinton My Life 2004

Babur Baburnama

Barack Obama Dreams from My Father 1996

Benito Mussolini My Autobiography: With the Political and Social

Doctrine of Fascism

1928

Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 1791

Bertrand Russell The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell 1951

Charles Darwin The Recollections of the Development of My Mind andCharacter

1887

Charles Dickens Autobiographical Fragment 1847

Charlie Chaplin My Autobiography 1964

Dalai Lama Freedom in Exile 1991

Hillary Rodham

Clinton

Living History 2003

Jawaharlal Nehru An Autobiography 1936

Jean-Paul Sartre The Words 1964

Leo Tolstoy My Confession 1884

Margaret Thatcher Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography

Marilyn Monroe My Story

Mahatma Gandhi The Story of My Experiments with Truth 1929

Mark Twain Mark Twain's Autobiography, posthumous 1907

Marlon Brando Songs My Mother Taught Me 1995

Maxim Gorky My Childhood 1913

Michael Jackson Moonwalk 1988

Muhammad Ali The Greatest: My Own Story 1975

Nelson Mandela A Long Walk to Freedom 1994

Nirad C. Chaudhuri The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian 1951

Oscar Wilde De Profundis 1897

Ronald Reagan An American Life: The Autobiography 1990Ronald Reagan An American Life 1990

Ronald Reagan The Reagan Diaries 2007

Sigmund Freud An Autobiographical Study 1925

Thomas Jefferson Autobiography 1743-1790 1821

Usain Bolt Faster than Lightning: My Autobiography 2013

Walter Benjamin Unpacking My Library 1931


58/100

Winston Churchill Memoirs of the Second World War 1959

Winston Churchill My Early Life: 1874-1904 1930

January, 201331st January:

30th January:

World anti Leprosy Day is observed to create awareness about the air-bornedisease.

Social Activist Anna Hazare declares his party name as Jantantra Morcha which willnot participate in election.

29th January:

Tiger Woods win his 75th PGA Tour title in the Farmers Insurance Open at TorreyPines.

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) reduced repo rate by 25 points. World Winter games, 2013 started in PyeongChang, South Korea.

28th January:

Mumbai win Ranji trophy final at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai defeating Saurashtra. World No. 1 Novak Djokovic defeated Andy Murray to win Australian Open, 2013

final.

27th January:

England defeat India in the fifth and final ODI in Dharamshala .26th January:

India celebrated its 64th Republic Day. King of Bhutan participates as Chief Guest for the Republic Day Parade. 4 Padma Vibhushan, 24 Padma Bhushan and 80 Padma Shri awards has been

declared on the occasion of Republic Day of India by Govt. of India. Sreeramamurthy Janaki, the renowned playback singer refused to accept the Padma

Bhushan. Victoria Azarenka ofBelarus wins Australian Open Womens Singles by defiting Li

Na of China. Centre Constituted New High Court for Manipur, Meghalaya And Tripura.


59/100

25th January:

Milos Zeman elected as Czech Republic President, first person to be directly elected . 3rd National Voters Day observe in India.

24th January:

23rd January:

Uddhav Thackeray elected as Shiv Sena President.22th January:

Olympic medalists Saina Nehwal and Meri Kom will be the Election Commission's(EC) national icons.

Rajnath Singh was elected as BJP President.21st January:

20th January:

19th January:

Rahul Gandhi elected as vice-president of Indian National Congress. Prof. Ved Praksah appointed as Chairman of the University Grants Commission on

(UGC).

18th January:

Jharkhand was brought under President's rule. Congress partys 3-day Chintan Shivir started at Jaipur.

17th January:

16th January:

Om Prakash Chautala, Ajay Chautala and two IAS officers were arrested for Trainedteachers hiring case of 1999.

15th January:

Pakistans Supreme Court ordered arrest of Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in acorruption case.

14th January:


60/100

Mahakumbh Mela started on the occasion of Makar Sankranti at Allahabad on theconfluence of Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati.

13th January:

12th January:

11th January:

Microsoft announced its plans to shut down Messenger service from its operatingsystem.

10th January:

9th January:

8th January:

Akbaruddin Owaisi, MIM Party MLA arrested for making hate speech. Haryana Chief Minister inugrated National Data Centre of Unique Identification

Authority of India (UIDAI) data center at Maneshar, Gurgaon. The data centre will beready by June 2014.

7th January:

Lionel Messi wins fourth consecutive Fifa Ballon d'Or in Zurich. 11th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) start in Kochi.

6th January:

5th January:

4th January:

Virat Kohli named as the International Cricketer of the Year at the CEAT CricketAwards. Pakistan named as best International Cricket Team.

3rd January:

2nd January:

1st January:

Astronautical Society of India (ASI) selected Dr. A.E. Muthunayagam, for 2011 andDr. V.K. Saraswat for Aryabhatta Award, for 2011.


61/100

February, 201328th February

National Science Day was observed.27th February

Chuck Hagel appointed as the new Secretary of Defense of the United States.26th February

Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal presented the Railway Budget for 2013-14 inParliament.

Delhi becomes the first state in the country to impose complete ban on manualscavenging.

Microsoft introduces Internet Explorer 10. Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni equaled record of Sourav Ganguly with 21st

test cricket win after defeating Australia by 8 wickets.

25th February

Park Geun-hye sworn in as the first woman President of South Korea. Maghi Purnima Snan in of Mahakumbh 2013 at Allahabad.

24th February

Jelena Jankovic, the former world no. 1 won the WTA Copa Claro Colsanitas Cup2013.

85th Academy Awards for Oscar,2013 ceremony took place Assam became the first state in India to produce over 500 million kilogram tea for

two years in a row. Mahendra Singh Dhoni became the first Indian wicket-keeper to score double-

century in a test match while scoring unbeaten 206 runs against Australia.

23rd February

22th February

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 22 February 2013 issued final guidelines for issuinglicenses for opening new banks

Harbhajan Singh played his 100th test while playing against Australia in M.A.Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai.

21st February


62/100

The Union Cabinet approved merger of Bharat Heavy Plate & Vessels Ltd. (BHPV)with Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL).

Ratan Tata is awarded the life time achievement award 2012 by Ernst & Young. Two bombs exploded in Dilsukhnagar, Hyderabad kill 14 people.

20th February

Virat Kohli appointed as the captain of Royal Challengers Bangalore for IPL, 2013. Boiko Borisov announced resignation as Prime Minister of Bulgaria.

19th February

Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari appointed as Chairman of the Sahitya Academy.18th February

Vishwanathan Anand wins the Grenke Classic Chess tournament. Social Worker Ela Bhatt awarded with Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace for 2011. She is

the founder of SEWA.

17th February

Rafael Nadal defeated David Nalbandian in to win the Brazil Open. Australia wins ICC Womens World Cup Trophy. In the final, they defeat defeated

West Indies by 114 runs. The Romanian film Child's Pose(Pozitia Copilului) bagged the Golden Bear prize

for best film at the 63rd Berlin film festival.

16th February

Serena Williams became the new World number one womens tennis player afterreaching Semifinals of Qatar Open Tennis Championship in Doha.

15th February

In Chelyabinsk, Russia hit by a huge meteor shower, this injured at least 750 people.14th February

Y Bhaskar Rao, the former Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court, sworn in as theLokayukta.

US Airways and American Airlines merge to become the Worlds biggest airlineservice.

13th February


63/100

Asoke Kumar Mukerji is appointed as Permanent Representative of India to theUnited Nations.

Mohan Parasaran is appointed as the new Solicitor General of India.12th February

North Korea conducted its third Nuclear Test at North Hamgyeong Province. Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty appointed as the chairman of Lalit Kala Akademi. International Olympics Committee (IOC) announced its decision to drop wrestling

from the list of core sports in Olympics.

11th February

Pope Benedict XVI announced that he would resign at the end of the month.10th February

36 people died as stampede took place at the Allahabad railway. Ranchi Rhinos beat Delhi Waveriders 2-1 to win theHockey India League (HIL). Chinese new year celebrated. Rest of India team win Irani Trophy.

9th February

Parliament Attack Convict, Afzal Guru hanged at Tihar Jail. Pandit Ravi Shankar honoured with the posthumous Lifetime Achievement Grammy

award. MCX-SX, new stock exchange of India inaugurated by Finance Minister P.

Chidambaram.

8th February

Sachin Tendulkar scored his 81st century in first class cricket and equaled therecord of Sunil Gavaskar.

7th February

The Supreme Court of India ordered Karnataka to release 2.44 thousand millioncubic feet of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu.

6th February

Sally Jewell is appointed as new Interior Secretary of USA.5th February


64/100

ICICI Bank partnered with Aircel, launch of their mobile banking service calledMobile Money.

Malda, WestBengal becomes Indias first all-women judicial magistrates court(JMC).

4th February

Michael Clarke wins Allan Border Medal. World cancer day was observed raise awareness about cancer.

3rd February

India lost the Davis Cup Asia Oceania (Group-1) tie to South Korea.2nd February

John Kerry replaced Hillary Clinton as United States new Secretary of State.1st February

Graeme Smith, South Africa becomes the first player in test cricket history to lead in100 test matches.

March, 2013

30th March:

BJP announces core team. Varun Gandhi, Amit Shah, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, JP Nandaand Murlidhar Rao were elevated as the party's General Secretary by the BJPpresident Rajnath Singh.

Serena Williams win Miami masters open Tennis Tournament for record sixth time. Social activist Anna Hazare started his Jantantra Yatra from Jallianwala Bagh.

29th March:

North Korea declares ''state of war'' against South Korea. Former Pakistan President Musharraf barred from going out of Pak.

28th March:

Nelson Mandela admitted in hospital with lung infection in Johannesburg. New Zealand batsman Jesse Ryder is in hospital at Christchurch after suffering

serious head injuries in an altercation outside a local bar.

27th March:


65/100

India celebrates Holi. 2,290 rhinos found in Kaziranga National Park, Assam as per the census conducted

in the park. Tiger Woods regained his world no. 1 spot in PGA rankings after he win The Arnold

Palmer Invitation at Orlando, Florida.

26th March:

Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi resigned on Tuesday over his government'sdecision to return t

world at a glance

Documents