These high-end apartments on the outskirts of Delhi in a area called Gurgon spring up like mushrooms. Our second trip when we drove into Delhi, it seemed the number had multiplied. The weather is mostly fine for construction in India, except maybe during monsoon. The demand for these homes remains high. The young Indian architects dreamed of living in an apartment such as this. The Americans were fascinated by the old city homes such as the Pols in Ahmedabad. Culture difference and experiential , as well, I am sure.
List of million-plus urban agglomerations in India
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
India is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people. India consists of twenty-nine states and seven union territories.[1] It is a home to 17.5 percent of the world’s population.[2]
Urban areas
The first population census in British India was conducted in 1872. Since 1951, a census has been carried out every 10 years.[3] The census in India is carried out by the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner under the Ministry of Home Affairs, and is one of the largest administrative tasks conducted by a federal government.[4]
The latest population figures are based on data from the 2011 census of India.[5] India has 641,000 inhabited villages and 72.2 percent of the total population reside in these rural areas.[5] Of them 145,000 villages have population size of 500–999 persons; 130,000 villages have population size of 1000–1999 and 128,000 villages have population size of 200–499. There are 3,961 villages that have a population of 10,000 persons or more.[2] India’s 27.8 percent urban population lives in more than 5,100 towns and over 380 urban agglomerations.[6] In the decade of 1991–2001, migration to major cities caused rapid increase in urban population.[7][8] The number of Indians living in urban areas has grown by 31.2% between 1991 and 2001.[9] Yet, in 2001, over 70% lived in rural areas.[10][11] According to the 2001 census, there were 27 million-plus cities in India,[9] with Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Chennai being the largest.
There are 53 urban agglomerations in India with a population of 1 million or more as of 2011 against 35 in 2001.[12] About 43 percent of the urban population of India lives in these cities.[13] Among these cities Srinagar, has become the first agglomeration in Jammu and Kashmir to cross one million. Kerala has added six new million-plus agglomerations in addition to Kochi, the only such area in 2001, and Jharkhand has three such areas.[12]
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2. Delhi
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5. Bangalore
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6. Hyderabad
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7. Ahmedabad
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8. Pune
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9. Surat
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10. Jaipur
Population is always in flux but you can get an idea. We were continually amazed at the density of the population as we traveled around. One friend told me that he lived in a small city and I asked the population, ” 70,000,” he said. Another cultural difference.
Keep in mind the numbers below are from 2011. The numbers are considerably higher now! I couldn’t find any more current numbers. It seems amazing that they can accurately count the population with as many people who live on the street.
List
- The cities which are listed in bold are the capital of the respective state / union territory.
Rank | UA[a] | State/Territory | Population (2011)[15] | Population (2001)[14] |
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1 | Mumbai | Maharashtra | 18,394,912 | 16,434,386 |
2 | Delhi | Delhi | 16,349,831 | 13,850,507 |
3 | Kolkata | West Bengal | 14,057,991 | 13,205,697 |
4 | Chennai | Tamil Nadu | 8,653,521 | 6,560,242 |
5 | Bangalore | Karnataka | 8,520,435 | 5,701,446 |
6 | Hyderabad | Telangana | 7,677,018 | 5,742,036 |
7 | Ahmedabad | Gujarat | 6,357,693 | 4,525,013 |
8 | Pune | Maharashtra | 5,057,709 | 3,760,636 |
9 | Surat | Gujarat | 4,591,246 | 2,811,614 |
10 | Jaipur | Rajasthan | 3,046,163 | 2,322,575 |
11 | Kanpur | Uttar Pradesh | 2,920,496 | 2,715,555 |
12 | Lucknow | Uttar Pradesh | 2,902,920 | 2,245,509 |
13 | Nagpur | Maharashtra | 2,497,870 | 2,129,500 |
14 | Ghaziabad | Uttar Pradesh | 2,375,820 | 968,256 |
15 | Indore | Madhya Pradesh | 2,170,295 | 1,506,062 |
16 | Coimbatore | Tamil Nadu | 2,136,916 | 1,461,139 |
17 | Kochi | Kerala | 2,119,724 | 1,355,972 |
18 | Patna | Bihar | 2,049,156 | 1,697,976 |
19 | Kozhikode | Kerala | 2,028,399 | 880,247 |
20 | Bhopal | Madhya Pradesh | 1,886,100 | 1,458,416 |
21 | Thrissur | Kerala | 1,861,269 | 330,122 |
22 | Vadodara | Gujarat | 1,822,221 | 1,491,045 |
23 | Agra | Uttar Pradesh | 1,760,285 | 1,331,339 |
24 | Visakhapatnam | Andhra Pradesh | 1,728,128 | 1,345,938 |
25 | Malappuram | Kerala | 1,699,060 | 170,409 |
26 | Thiruvananthapuram | Kerala | 1,679,754 | 889,635 |
27 | Kannur | Kerala | 1,640,986 | 498,207 |
28 | Ludhiana | Punjab | 1,618,879 | 1,398,467 |
29 | Nashik | Maharashtra | 1,561,809 | 1,152,326 |
30 | Vijayawada | Andhra Pradesh | 1,476,931 | 1,039,518 |
31 | Madurai | Tamil Nadu | 1,465,625 | 1,203,095 |
32 | Varanasi | Uttar Pradesh | 1,432,280 | 1,203,961 |
33 | Meerut | Uttar Pradesh | 1,420,902 | 1,161,716 |
34 | Faridabad | Haryana | 1,414,050 | 1,055,938 |
35 | Rajkot | Gujarat | 1,390,640 | 1,003,015 |
36 | Jamshedpur | Jharkhand | 1,339,438 | 1,104,713 |
37 | Jabalpur | Madhya Pradesh | 1,268,848 | 1,098,000 |
38 | Srinagar | Jammu and Kashmir | 1,264,202 | 988,210 |
39 | Asansol | West Bengal | 1,243,414 | 1,067,369 |
40 | Vasai-Virar | Maharashtra | 1,222,390 | |
41 | Allahabad | Uttar Pradesh | 1,212,395 | 1,042,229 |
42 | Dhanbad | Jharkhand | 1,196,214 | 1,065,327 |
43 | Aurangabad | Maharashtra | 1,193,167 | 892,483 |
44 | Amritsar | Punjab | 1,183,549 | 1,003,917 |
45 | Jodhpur | Rajasthan | 1,138,300 | 860,818 |
46 | Raipur | Chhattisgarh | 1,123,558 | 700,113 |
47 | Ranchi | Jharkhand | 1,120,374 | 863,495 |
48 | Gwalior | Madhya Pradesh | 1,117,740 | 865,548 |
49 | Kollam | Kerala | 1,110,668 | 380,091 |
50 | Durg-Bhilainagar | Chhattisgarh | 1,064,222 | 927,864 |
51 | Chandigarh | Chandigarh | 1,026,459 | 808,515 |
52 | Tiruchirappalli | Tamil Nadu | 1,022,518 | 866,354 |
53 | Kota | Rajasthan | 1,001,694 | 703,150 |
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Interesting.
Those are some massive cities, only China can rival them for populace. It’ll be interesting to see how India grows in the coming years.
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Thanks for stopping by and commenting. India will surpass China in the near future because of China’s one child policy. But BTW, China is allowing or overlooking a second child now.
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