Amazing Facts about Gujarat !!!

1. Gujarat is one of the most prosperous states of the country, having a per-capita GDP 3.2 times India's average.




2. If it was a nation it would have been 67th richest nation in the world above many European and Asian economies like China and Ukraine .




3. Gujarat holds many records in India for economic development:

· 20% of India's Industrial Output

· 9% of India's Mineral Production

· 22% of India's exports

· 24% of India's textile production

· 35% of India's pharmaceutical products

· 51% of India's petrochemical production




4. The world's largest ship breaking yard is in Gujarat near Bhavnagar at Alang.




5. Reliance Petroleum Limited, one of the group companies of Reliance Industries Limited founded by Dhirubhai Ambani operates the oil refinery at Jamnagar which is the world's largest grass roots refineries .




6. Gujarat ranks first nationwide in gas-based thermal electricity generation with national market share of over 8% and second nationwide in nuclear electricity generation with national market share of over 1%.




7. Over 20% of the S&P CNX 500 conglomerates have corporate offices in Gujarat.




8. Over 35% of the stock market wealth of India is with Gujarati People.




9. Over 60% of Indian Population in North America is Gujarati.




10. An average income of a Gujarati family in North America is three times more than the average income of an American family.




11. Gujarat is having the longest sea shore compared to any other Indian state




12. Gujarat is having the highest no. of operating airports in India (Total 12).




13. India's 16% of Investment are from Gujarat.




14. Gujarat is having highest no. of vegetarian people compared to any other state in India.




15. The first ALL VEG PIZZA-HUT was opened in Ahmedabad




16. Ahmedabad – the commercial capital of Gujarat is the seventh largest city in India.




17. Surat is the fastest growing city in the world.




18. Gandhinagar is the Greenest Capital City in whole Asia.




19. Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad(IIMA) is Asia's 1 st and world's 45th ranked management college located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.




20. Gujarat is the safest state as the Crime rate of it is 8.2 which is the least in India even after considering 2002 communal riots, stated by India Today 2005 report.




21. Gujarat is having least crime against women among all Indian states (excluding Goa) where AP is 1st, Delhi is 2nd , Bihar is 3rd ,Zarakhand is 4th and UP is 5th.




22. Ahmedabad which is the seventh largest city in India is the lowest in crime rate among all Tier-I and Tier-II cities of India as per National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report.




23. Ahmedabad is ranked 2nd in Real Estate - Ahead of Bangalore,Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai & Delhi. 3rd in Policy Initiatives - Ahead of Bangalore, Chennai, Calcutta, Mumbai & Delhi. 4th in Manpower - Ahead of Bangalore,Chennai, Mumbai & Delhi.

5 Crazy Facts

1.	Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
2.	A chicken loses its feathers when it becomes stressed.
3.	Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
4.	Snakes have no eyelids and are completely deaf.
5.	Flamingoes are the some of the only creatures designed to survive in the caustic environment of a volcanic lake.

5 Wierd Facts

1. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!

2. The original name for the butterfly was ‘flutterby’!

3. There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.

4. In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!

5. The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!

5 Funny Facts

1.  Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

2.  It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.

3.  The smile is the most frequently used facial expression. A smile can use anywhere from a pair of 5 to 53 facial muscles.

4.  The average person accidentally eats 430 bugs each year of their life.

5.  In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on watch is 10:10.

5 Strange Facts

1.  The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet.

2.  Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!

3.  At over 2000 kilometers long The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.

4.  Each rubber molecule is made of 65,000 individual atoms.

5.  The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.

5 Tech Facts

1. The Internet is the fastest-growing tool of communication ever. It took radio broadcasters 38 years to reach an audience of 50 million, television 13 years and the Internet just 4 years.

2. The United States generates more ewaste than any other nation.

3. The first e-mail was sent over the Internet in 1972.

4. The electric chair was invented by a dentist, Alfred Southwick.

5. As much as 80% of microwaves from mobile phones are absorbed by our head.

5 Facts about Planets

1.  A Planet falls into two categories. It is either a Terrestrial Planet or a Gas Giant.

2.  The temperature on the surface of Mercury exceeds 430° C during the day and at night, plummets to minus 180°C.

3.  A hundred pound man would weight 38 pounds on Mars.

4.  Jupiter is so big that it could fit all the other planets in the solar system inside it, having the great red spot which is a storm that has been going on for over 300 years.

5.  The clouds of Venus is filled with sulfuric acid.