About Karnataka:

Karnataka is an Indian state located in the south of India, also known as Karnataka. Its capital is Bangalore. Karnataka has an area of 1,91,976 square kilometers. Which is 5.83% of the total geographical area of India. It is the eighth largest state in the country in terms of area. This state was formed on 1 November 1956 under state reorganization. Earlier it was called Mysore State.It was renamed Karnataka in 1973. 

It shares its borders with Maharashtra in the north, Andhra Pradesh in the east, Kerala in the south, Arabian Sea in the west, Goa in the north-west and Tamil Nadu in the southeast. The most spoken language here is Kannada.

• State Karnataka
• Capital Bangalore
• National Emblem Emblem of Karnataka
• State animal Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus)
• State bird Indian Roller (Coracias indica)
• State tree Sandalwood (Santalum album)
• State Flower Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera)
• State language Kannada
• Area 1,91,791 km square
• Population 6.41 crore
• population density 319 person per km square
• Literacy rate 75.36%
• Female literacy rate 68.08%
• Male literacy rate 82.47%
• Sex ratio 968
• Legislature-biddable
• Assembly seats — 225 seats
• Legislative Council seats — 75 seats
• Lok Sabha seats — 28 seats
• Rajya Sabha seats — 12 seats
• High Court — Karnataka High Court

Religion and language
On the basis of religion, the population of Hindus here is 5,13,17,472 ie (84.00%)., Followed by Muslim community which is 7,893,065 (12.92%) of the total population of Karnataka., Third place is 1,142,647 population i.e. (1.87% ) Is of Christianity., Followed by Jainism, which has a population of 440,280 ie (0.72%)., Followed by Buddhism which is 95,710 (0.16%) of the total population of Karnataka. Then the number of people of Sikhism is 28,773 i.e. approximately (0.05%).

Language
The state language here is Kannada which is spoken by about 65% of the people here. The second place is Urdu language which is spoken by 9.72% of the people here. Telugu language is spoken here by 8.34%. In fourth place Marathi which is spoken by 3.95% people. 3.82% of the people here use the Tamil language. 3.38% people speak Tulu language here. Here Malayalam is spoken by 1.69% and Hindi by 1.87%.