Rampur is, by far, the most common place name is India. This map visualizes places that contain RAM-PUR like word.
(eg: Rampuri, Srirampur, Sitarampuri, Ramachandrapuram etc).
This includes pura, puram, pora etc suffixes. Each dot is a village, town or city. See next 2 maps too.
2: This map visualizes place names that contain "RAMPUR", with just (puri, puram etc).
A good number of places from Andhra & Tamil Nadu disappear, compared to earlier map. RAMA is prevalent over RAM in eastern coastal plains.
Does not include places like Ramapuram, Rampara etc.
3: This map visualizes place names that start with RAM and ending with PUR-like suffix.
This has more places than earlier map, it includes places like Ramchandrapuram, Ramapara, etc. However, it doesn't include places like Srirampur, Sitarampuram etc (from 1st map)
Sachin Tendulkar's 100 centuries in international cricket is a rare record. 🏏
• He is also the youngest to reach most century milestones.
• Virat Kohli almost caught up with Sachin in the early 30’s.
Lets look at 4 charts to see the progression. (1/n)
Over the years, we've seen some record-breaking knocks. 💯
• Sachin's 20 hundreds in 1998-99.
• Virat Kohli's 22 hundreds in 2017-18.
• Sachin's 12 hundreds in 1998, still holds the record for most 100s in year.
• Only Kohli hit 10+ hundreds in a year twice (2017 & 2018).
Virat Kohli went from 45 to 65 hundreds real quick (~ 80 Innings)
Hashim Amla and Sunil Gavaskar were among the fastest players too.
This includes T20Is too. Kohli's ODI & Tests are even quicker by innings played.
What percentage of people can speak Hindi in India?
Read the caveats for 2011 Census.
It's important to understand how Census reports Hindi in multilingual dataset.
Of the 52.8 crore 1st language Hindi speakers – 40% reported their 1st mother tongue in 56 dialects/different mother tongues.
2011 Census clubs all these 56+ into Hindi.
Using this caveat of Hindi (& 56+ MTs) grouping – 57% can speak Hindi in India.
• In 9 States, more than 90% speak Hindi
• In 13 States, less than 20% speak Hindi
• Highest: Uttar Pradesh 97.4%
• Lowest: Tamil Nadu 2.1%