Interesting facts about India's Independence Day

 Interesting facts about India's Independence Day

India observes Independence Day on August 15th every year as a national holiday to remember the day the country gained its independence from the United Kingdom and the provisions of the 1947 Indian Independence Act, which gave the Indian Constituent Assembly legislative authority, went into force. 

Prior to adopting the Constitution of India on January 26, 1950 (also known as Indian Republic Day), which replaced the dominion prefix Dominion of India with the sovereign law Constitution of India, India continued to be ruled by King George VI. 

Following the Freedom Movement, known for its primarily nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience, India won independence.

Interesting Facts About India:

• The wettest inhabited country on Earth is India. With 11,873 millilitres of rain falling annually, Meghalaya village has been named the wettest spot on Earth by the Guinness Book of World Records. 

• Considering that the rain season lasts for six months.

• Over 2 million Hindu temples and over 300,000 mosques can be found in India. Mosques can range in size from modest structures in tiny towns to enormous, well-known structures like the Jama Masjid in New Delhi or the Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad. 

• There are more than 23,000 temples in Varanasi alone, a holy city.

• The highest motorable road in the world. The Ladakh road is the highest motorable road in the world at above 19,300 feet.

• The glacial Lake Roopkund, which is 16,470 feet above sea level in the Himalayas, is known for the human bones that have been discovered there and nearby. 

• The skeletons are considered to be the remains of persons who died in a strong hailstorm in the ninth century.

• For around 1,000 years beginning in the fourth century BC, India was the world’s sole supplier of diamonds. 

• The Krishna River Delta is where the initial diamonds were discovered.