List of metropolitan areas in India

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 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/sq mi)
1 Central National Capital RegionDelhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh25,735,000 (2016)[3] 2,163 (835)[3]
2 Mumbai Metropolitan Region Maharashtra 20,800,000 (2005)[4] 4,354 (1,681)[5]
3 Kolkata metropolitan area West Bengal 18,540,000 (2020)[6] 1,851 (715)[7]
4 Chennai metropolitan area Tamil Nadu 13,300,253 (2011) 1,189 (459)
5 Bangalore Metropolitan Region Karnataka 10,576,167 (2013)[8] 8,005 (3,091)[9]
6 Hyderabad Metropolitan Region Telangana 9,700,000 (2011)[10] 7,257 (2,802)[11]
7 Ahmedabad Metropolitan Region Gujarat 8,345,326 (2019)[12] 1,866 (720)[12]
8 Pune Metropolitan Region Maharashtra 7,276,000 (2015)[13] 7,256 (2,802)[13]
9 Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Andhra Pradesh 5,018,000 (2011)[14][15] 4,873 (1,881)
10 Surat metropolitan Region Gujarat 4,467,797 (2015)[16] 3,261 (1,259)
11 Jaipur Metropolitan Region Rajasthan 3,812,262 (2015) 4,873 (1,881)[17]
12 Nagpur Metropolitan Region Maharashtra 2,497,870 (2011) 3,567 (1,377)[18]

References
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  2. "The Constitution (Seventy-Fourth Amendment) Act, 1992".
  3. Demographia (April 2016). Demographia World Urban Areas (PDF) (12th ed.). Retrieved 17 November 2016. (excludes Kondli)
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  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. "Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority - AUDA". www.auda.gov.in. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  13. "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. "Surat Urban Development Authority Population". Wikipedia. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  17. "Upgradation of JDA". Times of India. Jaipur. 13 August 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
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