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China vs India
Government structure comparison · Side by side
Capital
Beijing
New Delhi
Continent
Asia
Asia
Population
1.41B
1.42B
GDP
$33598.0B
$14244.0B
Area
9,596,960 km²
3,287,263 km²
Languages
Standard Chinese or Mandarin (official; Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages; note - Zhuang is official in Guangxi Zhuang, Yue is official in Guangdong, Mongolian is official in Nei Mongol, Uyghur is official in Xinjiang Uygur, Kyrgyz is official in Xinjiang Uyghur, and Tibetan is official in Xizang (Tibet)
Hindi 43.6%, Bengali 8%, Marathi 6.9%, Telugu 6.7%, Tamil 5.7%, Gujarati 4.6%, Urdu 4.2%, Kannada 3.6%, Odia 3.1%, Malayalam 2.9%, Punjabi 2.7%, Assamese 1.3%, Maithili 1.1%, other 5.6%; English is the subsidiary official language but is the most important one for national, political, and commercial communication (2011 est.)
Currency
Renminbi yuan (RMB) per US dollar -
Indian rupees (INR) per US dollar -
Government
communist party-led state
federal parliamentary republic
Head of State
Xi Jinping
Droupadi Murmu
Head of Government
Li Qiang
Narendra Modi