INDIA:

• Estimated Area: 3,287,263 km^2.
• Estimated Population: 1,293,057,000 (2016).
• Capital: New Delhi.

NEW DELHI:

•  08/05/07 to 14/05/07

INDIA GATE:

• Commemorates the 70,000 Indian soldiers who lost their lives fighting for the British Army during the World War I.
• The memorial bears the names of more than 13,516 British and Indian soldiers killed in the Northwestern Frontier in the Afghan war of 1919.
• designed by Edwin Lutyens.

• Height: 42 meter.

JAMA MASJID:

• 1648: built by Mughal emperor, Shahjahan and dedicated to his favourite daughter, Jahanara Begum.
• Construction: 6 years and 5,000 workers to complete the mosque.

PARLIMENT HOUSE:

AGRA FORT:

• Location: 2.5 km northwest of the Taj Mahal.
• Estimated Area: 380,000 sqm (94 acre).
• UNESCO World HERITAGE Site (1983).

AGRA:

TAJ MAHAL:

• Concept: An ivory-white marble mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna river in Agra.
• Height: 73 metres.
• Estimated Annual Visitorship: 7–8 million.
• Estimated Construction Cost: 32 million rupees (which in 2015 would be approximately 52.8 billion rupees or US$827 million).
• Construction: About 20,000 artisans under the guidance of a board of architects led by the court architect to the emperor, Ustad Ahmad Lahauri.

History:

• 1632: commissioned by the Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan (reigned 1628–1658), to house the tomb of his favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal, a Persian princess who died giving birth to their 14th child, Gauhara Begum.
• 1643: Construction was essentially completed but work continued on other phases of the project for another 10 years.
• 1653: Believed to have been completed in its entirety.
• 1983: UNESCO World Heritage Site.
• 2007: declared a winner of the New 7 Wonders of the World (2000–2007) initiative.