Top Fifty Metropolitan Areas In India

The data below might be useful to readers who are in the midst of venturing to India and need a quick snapshot of the biggest cities in India.

Rank

City

State

Population

1 Mumbai(

Bombay
)
Maharashtra 20,426,991
2

Delhi

Delhi
18,031,488
3 Kolkata(

Calcutta
)
West Bengal 14,911,823
4 Chennai(

Madras
)
Tamil Nadu 7,066,778
5

Bangalore
Karnataka 6,255,256
6

Hyderabad
Andhra Pradesh 6,112,250
7 Ahmedabad Gujarat 5,360,238
8 Pune Maharastra 4,878,283
9

Kanpur
Uttar Pradesh 3,329,339
10

Surat
Gujarat 3,092,478
11 Jaipur Rajasthan 2,926,915
12

Lucknow
Uttar Pradesh 2,845,253
13

Nagpur
Maharastra 2,485,915
14

Patna
Bihar 2,386,843
15

Indore
Madhya Pradesh 1,944,464
16

Meerut
Uttar Pradesh 1,723,065
17

Bhopal
Madhya Pradesh 1,677,896
18 Vadodara(

Baroda
)
Gujarat 1,641,566
19

Ludhiana
Punjab 1,624,767
20 Bhubaneshwar Orissa 1,608,507
21

Coimbatore
Tamil Nadu 1,590,568
22

Agra
Uttar Pradesh 1,585,555
23 Nashik Maharashtra 1,576,651
24

Kochi
(

Cochin
)
Kerala 1,490,882
25

Visakhapatnam
Andhra Pradesh 1,462,355
26

Varanasi
(

Benares)
Uttar Pradesh 1,460,731
27

Rajkot
Gujarat 1,364,432
28

Madurai
Tamil Nadu 1,314,074
29 Asansol West Bengal 1,260,695
30

Jabalpur
Madhya Pradesh 1,228,866
31

Allahabad
Uttar Pradesh 1,216,837
32

Jamshedpur
Jharkand 1,211,932
33 Dhanbad Jharkand 1,170,742
34

Amritsar
Punjab 1,158,601
35

Aurangabad
Maharastra 1,114,918
36

Vijayawada
Andhra Pradesh 1,112,219
37

Mysore
Karnataka 1,103,552
38

Srinagar

Jammu and Kashmir
1,068,446
39 Solapur Maharashtra 1,064,935
40 Bhilai Chhattisgarh 1,061,535
41

Ranchi
Jharkhand 1,014,718
42 Thiruvananthapuram (

Trivandrum
)
Kerala 1,008,862
43 Guwahati

Assam
989,240
44

Chandigarh

Chandigarh
971,947
45 Kozhikode (

Calicut
)
Kerala 968,143
46

Gwalior
Madhya Pradesh 958,764
47

Salem
Tamil Nadu 956,329
48 Tiruchirapalli Tamil Nadu 931,803
49 Jalandhar Punjab 911,781
50

Bareilly
Uttar Pradesh 875,165

[extracted from Wikipedia which list down the top fifty metropolitan areas in India by population, as of 2007. The above combined population of these 50 metros accounts for approximately one-eighth of the national population.]

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