India's climate varies from humid and dry tropical in the south to temperate alpine in the northern reaches and has a great diversity of ecosystems. Worth $ 2.1 trillion, India is the world's third largest economy after the US and China. It is also one of the leading producers of spices, fish, poultry, livestock and plantation crops. India is the world's largest producer of milk, pulses and jute, and ranks as the second largest producer of rice, wheat, sugarcane, groundnut, vegetables, fruit and cotton. With the highest mountain range in the world, the Himalayas to its North, the Thar desert to its West, the Gangetic delta to its East and the Deccan Plateau in the South, the country is home to vast agro-ecological diversity. India is a diverse country where over 22 major languages and 415 dialects are spoken. It has a long coastline of over 7,500 kms. It is the seventh largest country in the world with an area of 3.288 million sq kms. With a population of 1.27 billion India is the world's second most populous country.
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