Largest, Smallest, Highest and Longest in India

Largest, Smallest, Highest and Longest in India

Biggest Hotel — Oberai-Sheraton on the shore of the Arabian Sea in South Bombay.
Highest Mountain Peak — K2 (8‚611 metres)
Largest Populated City — Mumbai
Longest River (Flow in India) — Ganga (2510 km)
Highest Waterfall — Gersoppa Waterfall, Karnataka, (830 ft.)
Largest Lake — Wular Lake, Kashmir
Longest Electric Railway Line — Kolkata to Delhi
Largest State (area) — Rajasthan (4‚43‚446 sq. kms)
Largest State (population) — Uttar Pradesh (166,197,921)–2001 census
Longest River Bridge — Mahatma Gandhi Setu, Patna (5·75 km. Long)
Highest Gateway — Buland Darwaja 54 metres (Fatehpur Sikari, Agra)
Wettest place or heaviest rainfall — Masinram (Meghalaya)
Tallest Statue — Statue of Gomateshwar, Karnataka (47 metres high)
Largest Tunnel — Jawahar Tunnel (J & K State), 1½ km., Banihal Pass)
Largest Museum — Indian Museum, Kolkata
Densest population — West Bengal (904 persons per sq. kms)
Largest Zoo — Zoological Gardens, Alipur, Kolkata
Largest Forest State — Asom
Largest Road — Grand Trunk Road (2,400 kms)
Largest Delta — Sunderban Delta (12‚872 sq. kms)
Largest Cave Temple — Ellora (Kailash Temples, Maharashtra)
Largest Cantilever Span Bridge — Howrah Bridge (Kolkata)
Highest Tower — Qutub Minar, Delhi
Largest Dome — Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur (Karnataka)
Largest Mosque — Jama Masjid, Delhi
Highest Straight Gravity Dam — Bhakra Dam
Smallest State (area) — Goa
Smallest State (population) — Sikkim
Largest Desert — Thar (Rajasthan)
Largest man-made lake — Govind Sagar (Bhakra)
Largest Corridor — Rameshwaram Temple Corridor (121 metres long)
Largest Animal Fair — Sonepur Fair, Bihar.

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