List of metropolitan areas in India

This is a list of metropolitan areas by population in India.

The Constitution (seventy-fourth Amendment) Act, 1992 defines a metropolitan area in India as, an area having a population of ten lakhs 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]

List

Rank Metropolitan area State/Territory Population
 Area
(in km2)
1 Central National Capital RegionDelhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh25,735,000 (2016)[3] 2,163[3]
2 Mumbai Metropolitan Region Maharashtra 20,800,000 (2005)[4] 4,354[5]
3 Kolkata metropolitan area West Bengal 14,720,000 (2001)[6] 1,851[7]
4 Bangalore Metropolitan Region Karnataka 10,576,167 (2013)[8] 8,005[9]
5 Hyderabad metropolitan region Telangana 9,700,000 (2011)[10] 7,257[11]
6 Chennai metropolitan area Tamil Nadu 8,653,521 (2011)[12] 1,189[13]
7 Pune Metropolitan Region Maharashtra 7,276,000 (2015)[14] 7,256[14]
8 Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Andhra Pradesh 5,018,000 (2011) 6,501.65

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Local Bodies" (PDF). Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. National Informatics Centre. p. 9. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "The Constitution (Seventy-Fourth Amendment) Act, 1992".
  3. 1 2 Demographia (April 2016). Demographia World Urban Areas (PDF) (12th ed.). Retrieved November 17, 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. ↑ "About KMDA". KMDA Online. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
  7. ↑ "About KMDA". Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. Archived from the original on 9 March 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  8. ↑ "Table 3: Decadal population of State and BMR" (PDF). BMRDA. Government of Karnataka. p. 41. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  9. ↑ "Profile". Bangalore Metropolitan Region Development Authority. 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. ↑ "INDIA STATS : Million plus cities in India as per Census 2011". Press Information Bureau, Mumbai. National Informatics Centre. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  13. ↑ "CMA Map".
  14. 1 2 "Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority - PMRDA". www.pmrda.gov.in. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
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