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Largest-Smallest-Tallest-First

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First Miss World Reita Faria in 1966

First Miss Universe Susmita Sen in 1994

First Booker Prize Arundhati Roy for The God of Small Things in 1997

Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishan, C. Rajagopalachari, and

First Bharat Ratna
Dr. C.V. Raman in 1954

First Foreigner to receive Bharat

Khan Abdul Ghaffar
Ratna

First Person to receive Stalin Prize Saifuddin Kitchlu

First Chevalier Sivaji Ganesan

First Person to receive Jnapith

Shri Shankar Kurup
Award

First Dadasaheb Phalke Award Devika Rani in 1969

D.K. Jatar, captain of the sabotaged plane Kashmir

First Ashoka Chakra Award to a
Princess, for “most conspicuous bravery, daring and
civilian (posthumous)
self-sacrifice.”

First Magsaysay Award Vinoba Bhave

First Winner of a major literary

Dhan Gopal Mukerji
award in the United States

First Ford Supermodel of the

Bipasha Basu, 1996
World(contest)

First Indian recipient of „Oscar

Bhanu Athaiya
Award‟

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 Rabindranath Tagore for the Noble Prize in
First Noble Prize Winner Literature, 1913.
He was also the first Asian to get the Prize.

First Noble Prize in Physics C.V. Raman in 1930

Hargobind Khorana in 1968. (Indian Born US

First Noble Prize in Medicine
Citizen)

Mother Teresa in 1979. (Albanian nun, Indian

First Noble Peace Prize
Citizen)

First Noble Prize in Economics Amartya Sen in 1998

Gold for Hockey at the 1928 Summer Olympics

First Olympic team medal
Amsterdam, beating the Nethherlands.

First Olympic individual

Norman Pritchard, 1900
medal (in British India)

First Olympic individual Bronze by K.D. Jadhav for wrestling at the 1952
medal Summer Olympic Helsinki.

First Person to swim across

Mihir Sen,
the English Channel

First Women to swim across

Mihir Sen, 1958
the English Channel

First Formula I race driver Narain Karthikeyan

First Formula I team Force India F1

First A1 GP race victory Narain Karthikeyan, Zhuhai, China, 2007

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First Asian Games organised Delhi (1951)

First in CHESS

First Chess Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand in 1988, at the age of 18

First FIDE World Chess

Viswanathan Anand in December 2000
Champion

First Undisputed World

Viswanathan Anand in September 2007
Chess Champion

First in TENNIS

Mahesh Bhupati (partnering with Japanese Rika

First Tennis Grand Slam
Hiraki) in the Mixed Doubles category of the 1997
title
French Open

Nirupama Vaidyanathan beat Italian Gloria Pizzichini

First Tennis Grand Slam
in the First round of 1998 Australian Open First
win by a women
Women in 4th round (higest as of 2008) of a tennis

Sania Mirza in the Singles Category of the 2005 US

Grand Slam event
Open

Leander Paes in the Singles category of the 1990

Wimbledon Championship. He is also the only medal
First Tennis Grand Slam
fetcher for India in the Atlanta Olympics. He won a
Junior title
bronze medal, the only medal that put India in the
medal tally.

Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa

First Tennis Grand Slam
Kleybanova) in the Doubles category of the 2003
Junior title by a women
Wimbledon Championships.

First in CRICKET

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 The Bombay Triangular which Later became the
First Cricket tournament
Bombay Quadrangular (1912-1936)

First Cricket Test Match Against England at Lord’s June,25, 1932

First Cricket Captain CK Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England

First Cricketer to score a Lala Amarnath in 1933 against England in South

century Bombay

First Cricketer to score a

Vijay Hazare
triple century

First Test Cricket cricket

Harbhajan Singh against Austrlia in March 2001
hat-trick

First Cricketer World Cup

At the 1983 Cricket World Cup
Championship Win

First Batsman to complete Sunil Gavaskar (he was the first in the world to
10,000 runs in Test Cricket achieve this feat.)

First Batsman to complete Sachin Tendulkar (he was the first in the world to
10,000 runs in ODI Cricket achieve this feat.)

First Cricketer to score 75

Sachin Tendulkar
Test and ODI centuries

First Wax statue of a Living Indian Mahatma Gandhi at Madame

Tussaud‟s in 1939

First Chinese pilgrim to Visit India Fa-hien

First Exclusive internet magazine Bharat Samachar

First Miss India to participate in Miss Universe Indrani Rehman

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First President of Indian National Congress W.C. Bannerjee, 1885

First Muslim President of the Indian National Badruddin Tayyabji

Congress

First Judge in International Court of Justice Dr. Nagender Singh

First Graduate in Medicine Soorjo Coomar Goodeve

Chukerbutty

India‟s First University Nalanda University

India‟s First Open University Andhra Pradesh Open University

India‟s First Lok Sabha Member to be elected with a [Link] Rao

record maximum number of votes

First Indian to reach Antarctica Lt. Ram Charan

First British to Visit India Hawkins

First Test tube baby of India Indira (Baby Harsha)

First Post Office Opened in India Kolkata(1727)

The first lady to become Miss World Rita Faria

The first woman judge in Supreme Court Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi

The first woman Ambassador Miss C.B. Muthamma

The first woman Governor of a state in free

Mrs Sarojini Naidu
India

The first woman Speaker of a State

Shanno Devi
Assembly

The first woman Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi

The first woman Minister in a Government Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

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The first woman to climb Mount Everest Bachhendri Pal

The first woman to climb Mount Everest

Santosh Yadav
twice

The first woman President of Indian

Mrs Annie Besant
National Congress

The first woman pilot in Indian Air Force Harita Kaur Dayal

Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi

The first woman Graduates
Basu, 1883

The first woman Airline Pilot Durga Banerjee

The first woman Honours Graduate Kamini Roy, 1886

The first woman Olympic medal Winner Karnam Malleswari, 2000

The first woman Asian Games Gold Medal

Kamlijit Sandhu
Winner

The first woman Lawyer Cornelia Sorabjee

The first woman President of United

Mrs Vijaya Laxmi Pandit
Nations General Assembly

The first woman Chief Minister of an

Mrs Sucheta Kripalani
Indian State

The first woman Chairman of Union Public

Roze Millian Bethew
Service Commission

The first woman Director General of Police Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya

Anna Chandy (She became judge in a

The first woman Judge
district court in 1937)

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The first woman Cheif Justice of High Mrs Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh High
Court Court)

The first woman Judge in Supreme Court of

Kumari Justice M. Fathima Beevi
India

The first woman Lieutenant General Puneeta Arora

The first woman Air Vice Marshal P. Bandopadhyaya

The first woman chairperson of Indian

Sushma Chawla
Airlines

The first woman IPS officer Mrs. Kiran Bedi

The first and last Muslim woman ruler of

Razia Sultan
India

The first woman to receive Ashoka Chakra Nirja Bhanot

The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award Ashapurna Devi

The first woman to cross English Channel Aarti Saha

The first woman to receive Nobel Prize Mother Teresa

The first woman to receive Bharat Ratna Mrs Indira Gandhi

The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award Ashpurna Devi

The first President of Indian Republic Dr. Rajendra Prasad

The first Prime Minister of free India Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru

The first Indian to win Nobel Prize Rabindranath Tagore

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The first President of Indian National Congress W.C. Banerjee

The first Muslim President of Indian National Congress Badruddin Tayyabji

The first Muslim President of India Dr. Zakir Hussain

Lord William
The first British Governor General of India
Bentinck(1833-1835)

Lord Warren Hasting(1774-

The first British Governor General of Bengal
1885)

The first British Viceroy of India Lord Canning

The first Governor General of free India Lord Mountbatten

The first and the last Indian to be Governor General of

C. Rajgopalachari
free India

The first man who introduced printing press in India James Hicky

The first Indian to join the I.C.S Satyendra Nath Tagore

India’s first man in Space Rakesh Sharma

The first Prime Minister of India who resigned without

Morarji Desai
completing the full term

The first Indian Commander-in-Chief of India General Cariappa

Gen. Maharaj Rajendra

The first Chief of Army Staff
Singhji

The first Indian Member of the Viceroy’s executive

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The first President of India who died while in office Dr. Zakhir Hussain

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The first Muslim President of Indian Republic Dr. Zakhir Hussain

The first Prime Minister of India who did not face the
Charan Singh
Parliament

The first Field Marshal of India S.H.F. Manekshaw

The first Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics [Link]

The first Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award Dr. Radhakrishnan

The first Indian to cross English Channel Mihir Sen

The first Person to receive Jnanpith award Sri Shankar Kurup

Ganesh Vasudeva
The firs Speaker of the Lok Sabha
Mavalankar

The first Vice-President of India Dr. Radhakrishnan

The first Education Minister Abdul Kalam Azad

The first Home minister of India Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

The first Indian Air Chief Marshal S. Mukherjee

The first Indian Naval Chief Vice Admiral R.D. Katari

The first Judge of International Court of Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh

The first person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen Sherpa Anga Dorjee

The first person to get Param Vir Chakra Major Somnath Sharma

The first Chief Election Commissioner Sukumar Sen

The first person to receive Magsaysay Award Acharya Vinoba Bhave

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The first person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in
Hargovind Khurana
Medicine

The first Chinese traveller to visit India Fahein

The first person to receive Stalin Prize Saifuddin Kitchlu

The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

The first person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics Amartya Sen

The first Chief Justice of Supreme Court Justice Hirala J. Kania

The first Indian Pilot J.R.D. Tata (1929)

On the Ganganachukki waterfall of the

First Hydroelectric Plant
Sivasamudram Falls, Karnataka, built in 1902

Banglore, in 1906 (it was in fact the first city to

First City to have electricity
have electricity)

Rakesh Sharma aboard Salyut 7, on April 03,

First Man in Space 1984. He was the 138th man in space world-
wide.

Kalpana Chawla aboard Space Shuttle

Columbia flight STS-87, on November 19,1997
First Women in Space
She was a naturalized United States citizen, and
represented the US during the event.

First Test-tube baby Durga Agarwal, born 1978

First Scienfific Expedition to

1981
Antarctica

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First Nuclear Reactor Tarapur, Maharashtra

First Genetically Modified Food

Bt. Egg Plant Hybrid
Product in India

First Satellite Aryabhatta, launched on April 19, 1975

First Satellite dedicated exclusively

EDUSET
for educational services

First Successfully Indigenous

SLV-3
Launch Vehicle

Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E Aldrin Jr of

The first person in the world to
USA (Armstrong was the first to set foot on the
land on the moon
moon followed by Aldrin) – July 21, 1969

First man to enter space (or the

Yuri Gagarin (Russian)
world‟s first cosmonaut)

The first returnable space shuttle Colombia

The first disabled satellite repaired

Solar Max
in space

The first unmanned moon-buggy to

Lunokhod-I (Russia)
explore surface of the moon

The first unmanned spaceship to

have soft-landed and lifted off from Luna – 16 (Russia) (Sept. 21, 1970)
the moon to return to earth.

The first manned space vehicle to Lunar Exploration Module (LEM) nick named
land on the moon “Eagle”

The first country to send men on

USA
the moon

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The first to launch earth satellite or
Russia
“artificial baby moon”

The first woman cosmonaut of the

Valentina Tereshkova (Russian)
world

The first person to float in space Alexei Lenov (Russian)

The first American astronaut (and

second person in the world) to float Edward White
in space

The first country to launch a cosmic

USSR
space rocket towards moon

The first space rocket to hit the

Lunik-II
moon

The first spaceship in the world to

Surveyor-3 (USA)
sample moon‟s crust

The first space vehicle to soft-land

Luna-9 (Russia)
on Moon

The first space vehicle to orbite the

Luna-10 (Russia)
moon

The first space-craft to leave solar

Pioneer II
system

The first American manned

spaceship to perform crew transfer Apollo-9 (USA)
in space

The first manned spacehip to

perform space flight round the Apollo-8 (USA)
moon

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Highest Award Bharat Ratna

Highest Gallantry Award Param Vir Chakra

Longest River in India The Ganges

Longest Tributary river of India Yamuna

Largest Lake Wular Lake, Kashmir

Largest Lake (Saline Water) Chilka Lake, Orrisa

Largest Man-Made Lake Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand Dam)

Largest Fresh Water Lake Kolleru Lake (Andhra Pradesh)

Highest Lake Devtal Lake, Gadhwal (Uttarakhand)

Highest Lake Devatal (Gharhwal)

Karkoram-2 of K-2(8,611 meters)

Highest Peak Highest Peak in the world is Mount
Everest which is in Nepal

Largest Populated City Mumbai

Largest State(Area) Rajasthan

Largest State(Population) Uttar Pradesh

Highest rainfall Cherrapunhi (426 inches per annum)

Nohkalikai Falls (335 meters, 1100 ft

Highest Watefall
high) in Shora

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State wise largest area under forest Madhya Pradesh

Largest Delta Sunderbans Delta

Largest River without Delta Narmada and Tapti

Longest Cantilever Span bridge Howrah Bridge

Longest River Bridge Mahatma Gandhi Setu, Patna

Biggest Cave temple Ellora

Longest Road Grand Trunk Road

Road at Khardungla,(in Leh-Manali

Highest Road
Sector)

Biggest Mosque Jama Masjid at Delhi

Buland Darwaza at Fatehpur Sikri (53.6

Highest Gateway
meters high)

Statue of Gomateshwar (17 meters high In

Tallest Statue
Karnataka

Largest Public Sector Bank State Bank of India

Indira Gandhi Canal or Rajasthan Canal

Longest Canal
(Rajasthan)

Largest Dome Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur

Largest Zoo Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata)

Largest Museum India Museum at Kolkata

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Longest Dam Hirakud Dam (Orrisa)

Highest Dam Tehri Dam ( 260 meters , 850 ft )

Highest Tower Kutab Minar at Delhi (88.4 meters high)

Largest Desert Thar (Rajasthan)

Largest District Kutch district

Shatabadi Express running between New

Fastest Train
Delhi and Bhopal

State with longest coastline Gujarat

State with longest coastline of South

Andhra Pradesh
India

Longest Electric Railway Line From Delhi to Kolkata via Patna

Longest Railway Route From Assam to Kanyakumari

Longest Railway Platform Kharagpur (W. Bengal)

Highest Railway Station Ghum (W. Bengal)

Kharagpur (West Bengal) 833 meters in

Longest Platform Length. It is also the longest railway
station in world

Longest Tunnel Jawahar tunnel (Jammu & Kashmir)

NH-44 (NH-7) which turns from Varanasi

Longest Highway
to Kanyakumari

Smallest State (Population) Sikkim

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Smallest State (Area) Goa

Largest State (Area) Rajasthan

Largest State (Population) Uttar Pradesh

Densest Populated State West Bengal

Largest Cave Amarnath (J&K)

Largest Cave Temple Kailash Temple, Ellora (Maharastra)

Largest Animal Fair Sonepur (Bihar)

Largest Auditorium Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)

Biggest Hotel Oberai-Sheraton (Mumbai)

Largest Port Mumbai

Largest Gurudwara Golden Temple, Amritsar

Deepest River Valley Bhagirathi & Alaknanda

Largest Church Saint Cathedral (Goa)

St. Thomas Church at Palayar, Trichur

Oldest Church
(Kerala)

Longest River Ganga (2640 km long)

Longest Beach Marina Beach, Chennai

Highest Battle Field Siachin Glacier

Highest Airport Leh (Laddakh)

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 Biggest Stadium Yuva Bharti (Salt Lake) Stadium, Kolkata

Largest River Island Majuli (Brahmaputra River, Asom)

Largest Planetarium Birla Planetarium (Kolkata)

Sambhar lake Largest inland salt lake

Geographical Facts:-

Largest Continent Asia, 17,212,2000 square miles

Smallest Continent Australia,312,2000 square miles

Mount Everest, Himalayan Mountains, Nepal-Tibet, 29,035 feet above

Highest Mountain
sea level

Lowest Point on land The Dead Sea, Israel-Jordan, water surface 1,349 feet below sea level

Deepest Underwater Marina Trench, 200 miles southwest of Guam in the Pacific Ocean,
Trench 36,198 feet below the ocean surface

Largest Sea The Mediterranean Sea, 1,144,800 square miles

The Highest navigable lake is Lake Titicaca in Peru, 12,500 feet above
Highest Lake
sea level

The Dead Sea, Israel-Jordan, surface of water 1,349 feet below sea
Lowest Lake
level

Largest Lake Caspian Sea, 152,239 square miles

Largest Freshwater
Lake Superior, US-Canada, 31,820 square miles
Lake

Deepest Ocean Pacific Ocean, average depth 13,215 feet

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Largest Ocean Pacific Ocean, 60,060,700 square miles

Smallest Ocean Arctic Ocean, 5,427,000 square miles

Largest Gulf Gulf of Mexico, 615,000 square miles

Bay The Bay of Bengal, 1,300,000 square miles

Largest Island Greenland, 839,999 square miles

Largest Peninsula Arabia, 1,250,000 square miles

Largest Archipelago Indonesia, 3,500-mile stretch of 17,000 islands

Grand Canyon, Colorado River, Arizona, US, 217 miles long, 4-18
Largest Gorge
miles wide, 1 mile deep

Deepest Gorge Hells Canyon, Snake River, Idaho, 7,900 feet deep

Longest Mountain
The Andes of South America, 5,000 miles
Range

Longesr River The Nile, Africa, 4,180 miles

Shortest River The Roe, Montana, US, 200 feet long

Largest River The Amazon, South America, basin of 2,500,000 square miles

Longesr Estuary Ob River, Russia, 550 miles long, up to 50 miles wide

Larget Lagoon Lagoa dos Patos, Brazil, 150 miles long, 4,500 square miles

Largest Waterfall Angel Falls, Venezuela, 3,212 feet high

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Oceans of the World (by Size)

 Pacific (155,557,000 sq km)

 Atlantic (76,762,000 sq km)

 Indian (68,556,000 sq km)

 Southern (20,327,000 sq km)

 Artic (14,056,000 sq km)

Ocean's Greatest Depths

 Mariana Trench, Pacific Ocean 35,827 ft

 Puerto Rico Trench, Atlantic Ocean 30,246 ft

 Java Trench, Indian Ocean 24,460 ft

 Arctic Basin, Arctic Ocean, 18,456 ft

Major Seas (by Size)

 South China (2,974,600 sq km)

 Caribbean (2,515,900 sq km)

 Mediterranean (2,510,000 sq km)

 Bering (2,261,100 sq km)

 Gulf of Mexico (1,507,600 sq km)

 Arabian Sea (1,498,320 sq km)

 Sea of Okhotsk (1,392,100 sq km)

 Sea of Japan (East Sea - 1,012,900 sq km)

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  Hudson Bay (730,100 sq km)

 East China (664,600 sq km)

 Andaman (564,900 sq km)

 Black (507,900 sq km)

 Red (453,000 sq km)

Major Rivers (by length)

 Nile, Africa (6,825 km)

 Amazon, South America (6,437 km)

 Chang Jiang (Yangtze), Asia (6,380 km)

 Mississippi, North America (5,971 km)

 Yenisey-Angara, Asia (5,536 km)

 Huang(Yello), Asia (5,464 km)

 Ob-Irtysh, Asia (5,410 km)

 Amur, Asia (4,416 km)

 Lena, Asia (4,400 km)

 Congo, Africa (4,370 km)

 Mackenzie-Peace, North America (4,241 km)

 Mekong, Asia (4,184 km)

 Niger, Africa (4,171 km)

Major Lakes (by Size)

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  Caspian Sea, Asia-Europe (371,000 sq km)

 Superior, North America (82,100 sq km)

 Victoria, Africa (69,500 sq km)

 Huron, North America (59,600 sq km)

 Michigan, North America (57,800 sq km)

 Tanganyika, Africa (32,900 sq km)

 Baikal, Asia (31,500 sq km)

 Great Bear, North America (31,300 sq km)

 Aral Sea, Asia (30,700 sq km)

 Malawi, Africa (28,900 sq km)

 Great Slave, Canada (28,568 sq km)

 Erie, North America (25,667 sq km)

 Winnipeg, Canada (24,387 sq km)

 Ontario, North America (19,529 sq km)

Deepest Lake (by Greatest Depth)

 Baikal, Russian Fed. (5,315 ft)

 Tanganyika, Africa (4,800 ft)

 Caspian Sea, Asia-Europe (3,363 ft)

 Malawi or Nyasa, Africa (2,317 ft)

 Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan (2,303 ft)

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Tallest Mountains (on each Continent)

 Mount Everest 8859 m - Asia

 Aconcagua 6959 m - S. America

 Mount McKinley 6194 m - N. America

 Mount Kilimanjaro 5963 m - Africa

 Mount Elbrus 5633 m - Europe

 Puncak Jaya 4884 m - Oceania

 Vinson Massif 4897 m - Antarctica

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