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This is a list of metropolitan areas by population in India. The 74th Amendment to the Indian Constitution defines a metropolitan area as:

An area having a population of 10 Lakh or 1 Million or more, comprised in one or more districts and consisting of two or more Municipalities or Panchayats or other contiguous areas, specified by the Governor by public notification to be a Metropolitan area.[1][2]

ListEdit

Metropolitan area State/Territory Skyline Population Area
Count As of km2 sq mi
National Capital Region Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh,Rajasthan   25,735,000 2016[3] 2,163 835[3]
Mumbai Maharashtra   20,800,000 2005[4] 4,354 1,681[5]
Kolkata West Bengal File:Roads Of Kolkata.jpg 18,540,000 2020[6] 1,851 715[7]
Chennai Tamil Nadu   13,300,253 2011 8,462 3,267
Bangalore Karnataka   10,576,167 2013[8] 8,005 3,091[9]
Hyderabad Telangana   9,700,000 2011[10] 7,257 2,802[11]
Ahmedabad Gujarat   8,345,326 2019[12] 1,866 720[12]
Pune Maharashtra File:Pimpri-Chinchwad Skyline.jpg 7,276,000 2015[13] 7,256 2,802[13]
Visakhapatnam Andhra Pradesh   6,000,000 2011[14][15] 7,329 2,830[16]
Kanpur Uttar Pradesh   5,873,588 2011[17] 8,603 3,322
Surat Gujarat   4,466,826 2011[18] 3,261 1,259
Patna Bihar   3,874,000 2011 1,167 451
Jaipur Rajasthan   3,812,262 2015 4,873 1,881[19]
Coimbatore Tamil Nadu   2,849,335 2011 888 343
Nagpur Maharashtra   2,497,870 2011 3,567 1,377[20]
Raipur Chhattisgarh 2,917,060 2020[21] 1,000 390
Kochi Kerala   2,117,990 2020 440 170[22]
Kozhikode Kerala   2,028,399 2011 944 364[23]
Thiruvananthapuram Kerala   1,687,406 2011 310 120[24]
Madurai Tamil Nadu   1,470,755 2011[7] 247 95
Jodhpur Rajasthan   1,137,815 2011[25][26][27] 1,005 388
Salem Tamil Nadu   1,124,346 2011[28][29] 799 308

ReferencesEdit

  1. ↑ "Local Bodies" (PDF). Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. National Informatics Centre. p. 9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "The Constitution (Seventy-Fourth Amendment) Act, 1992".
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Demographia (April 2016). Demographia World Urban Areas (PDF) (12th ed.). Retrieved 17 November 2016. (excludes Kondli)
  4. ↑ "MMR – Population and Employment" (PDF). National Real Estate Development Council. Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation. p. 4. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  5. ↑ "About MMR". Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  6. ↑ http://www.citymayors.com/statistics/urban_2020_1.html
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Urban Agglomerations/Cities having population 1 million and above" (PDF). censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  8. ↑ "Table 3: Decadal population of State and BMR" (PDF). BMRDA. Government of Karnataka. p. 41. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 October 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  9. ↑ "Profile". Bangalore Metropolitan Region Development Authority. Archived from the original on 31 March 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  10. ↑ "Time to put metropolitan planning committee in place". Times of India. Hyderabad. 28 July 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  11. ↑ "About HMDA". Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority - AUDA". www.auda.gov.in. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority - PMRDA". www.pmrda.gov.in. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  14. ↑ "Upgradation of VMRDA". Times of India. Visakhapatnam. 13 August 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
  15. ↑ "VMRDA loses 1,628 sq.km to new urban development body". Visakhapatnam: Times of India. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  16. ↑ "Vizag City limits expand to cater future needs". Times of India. Retrieved 24 March 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  17. ↑ "SFD Report - Kanpur, India". Susana. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  18. ↑ "Wardwise Area and Population : Surat Municipal corporation". www.suratmunicipal.gov.in. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  19. ↑ "Upgradation of JDA". Times of India. Jaipur. 13 August 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
  20. ↑ "About NMR". Jaipur. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  21. ↑ {{cite web|url=https://www.bhaskar.com/local/chhattisgarh/raipur/news/to-greater-127868854.html
  22. ↑ "Urban Agglomerations/Cities having population 1 million and above" (PDF). The Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
  23. ↑ "Urban Agglomerations/Cities having population 1 million and above" (PDF). The Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 19 November 2011.
  24. ↑ India UA Population. "Urban Agglomerations/Cities having population 1 million and above" (PDF). Provisional Population Totals, Census of India 2011. The Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
  25. ↑ "Execution of Jodhpur Master Plan 2021". Jodhpur Region 3rd Master Plan Execution (in हिन्दी). 18 February 2021.
  26. ↑ https://hindi.news18.com/news/rajasthan/jodhpur-paving-the-way-for-development-jda-approves-third-master-plan-rjsr-3472550.html
  27. ↑ https://jda.urban.rajasthan.gov.in/content/dam/raj/udh/development-authority/jda-jodhpur/pdf/Jodhpur%20MDP%20Report%202031.pdf
  28. ↑ "Salem, India Metro Area Population 1950-2021". www.macrotrends.net. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
  29. ↑ "Salem District Town and Country Planning | Salem District, Government of Tamil Nadu | India". Retrieved 13 August 2021.
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