List of million-plus urban agglomerations in India
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 54 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] Guwahati is the only million-plus urban agglomeration in the whole of North-eastern India and the second largest in terms of area in the Eastern and North-Eartern India after Kolkata. Kerala has added six new million-plus agglomerations in addition to Kochi, the only such area in 2001.[12]
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- The cities which are listed in bold are the capital of the respective state / union territory.
Rank | UA[lower-alpha 1] | 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 | 12,877,470 |
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 | Guwahati | Assam | 1,260,419 | N/A |
40 | Asansol | West Bengal | 1,243,414 | 1,067,369 |
41 | Vasai-Virar | Maharashtra | 1,222,390 | |
42 | Allahabad | Uttar Pradesh | 1,212,395 | 1,042,229 |
43 | Dhanbad | Jharkhand | 1,196,214 | 1,065,327 |
44 | Aurangabad | Maharashtra | 1,193,167 | 892,483 |
45 | Amritsar | Punjab | 1,183,549 | 1,003,917 |
46 | Jodhpur | Rajasthan | 1,138,300 | 860,818 |
47 | Raipur | Chhattisgarh | 1,123,558 | 700,113 |
48 | Ranchi | Jharkhand | 1,120,374 | 863,495 |
49 | Gwalior | Madhya Pradesh | 1,117,740 | 865,548 |
50 | Kollam | Kerala | 1,110,668 | 380,091 |
51 | Durg-Bhilainagar | Chhattisgarh | 1,064,222 | 927,864 |
52 | Chandigarh | Chandigarh | 1,055,450 | 808,515 |
53 | Tiruchirappalli | Tamil Nadu | 1,022,518 | 866,354 |
54 | Kota | Rajasthan | 1,001,694 | 703,150 |
See also
- List of cities in India by population
- List of most populous metropolitan areas in India
- List of states and union territories of India by population
- Demographics of India
Notes
References
- ↑ "States and union territories". Government of India (2001). Census of India. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
- 1 2 "Area and population". Government of India (2001). Census of India. Retrieved 26 October 2008.
- ↑ "Census Organisation of India". Government of India (2001). Census of India. Retrieved 31 January 2012.
- ↑ "Brief history of census". Government of India (2001). Census of India. Retrieved 31 January 2012.
- 1 2 "Census 2011 Provisional Population Totals" (PDF). The Hindu. Chennai, India.
- ↑ "Urban Agglomerations (UAs) & towns". Government of India (2001). Census of India. Retrieved 2008-12-04.
- ↑ Shinde, Swati (13 Sep 2008). "Migration rate to city will dip". Times of India. Retrieved 2008-12-08.
- ↑ "Develop towns to stop migration to urban areas: economist". Chennai, India: Hindu. 3 December 2005. Retrieved 2008-12-08.
- 1 2 Garg 2005.
- ↑ Dyson & Visaria 2005, pp. 115–129.
- ↑ Ratna 2007, pp. 271–272.
- 1 2 Rukmini Shrinivasan; Hemali Chhapia. "Delhi topples Mumbai as maximum city". The Times of India. India: Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. Retrieved 7 February 2012.
- ↑ "Urban Agglomerations/Cities having population 1 lakh and above" (PDF). Censusindia. The Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
- 1 2 "INDIA STATS : Million plus cities in India as per Census 2011". Press Information Bureau, Mumbai. National Informatics Centre (NIC). Retrieved 7 February 2012.
- ↑ "India: Major Agglomerations". .citypopulation.de. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
Further reading
- Dyson, T.; Visaria, P. (7 July 2005), "Migration and Urbanisation: Retrospect and Prospects", in Dyson, T.; Casses, R.; Visaria, L., Twenty-First Century India: Population, Economy, Human Development, and the Environment, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0199283828
- Garg, S. C. (19 April 2005), Mobilizing Urban Infrastructure Finance in India (PDF), World Bank, retrieved 27 January 2010
- Ratna, U. (2007), "Interface Between Urban and Rural Development in India", in Dutt, A. K.; Thakur, B., City, Society, and Planning, 1, Concept, ISBN 978-8180694592