Indian Cities Population

Mumbai 3rd most populated in world!
The migration of rural population to urban areas has made cities densely populated. About 27 per cent the population live in urban areas. There are 4,000 cities and towns in India. About 300 cities have population over 1,00,000. Seven cities have population more than 3 million.

Greater Mumbai still is the most populated city in its 440 sq. Km. area followed by Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore and Chennai. Mumbai ranks third in world after Tokyo and Mexico. Kolkata 9th and Delhi 14th according to U.S. Census Bureau.

Some majorly populated Indian cities

Name	Population 1991-03-01 census	Population 2001-03-01 census
Greater Mumbai (Bombay)	9,925,891	11,914,398
Delhi	7,206,704	9,817,439
Kolkata (Calcutta)	4,399,819	4,580,544
Bangalore	2,660,088	4,292,223
Chennai (Madras)	3,841,396	4,216,268
Ahmedabad	2,876,710	3,515,361
Hyderabad	2,964,638	3,449,878
Pune	1,566,651	2,540,069
Kanpur	1,874,409	2,532,138
Surat	1,498,817	2,433,787
Jaipur	..	2,324,319
Lucknow	1,619,115	2,207,340
Nagpur	1,624,752	2,051,320
Indore	..	1,597,441
Bhopal	1,062,771	1,433,875
Ludhiana	1,042,740	1,395,053
Patna	917,243	1,376,950
Vadodara	1,031,346	1,306,035
Thane	803,389	1,261,517
Agra	891,790	1,259,979
Kalyan-Dombivali	..	1,193,266
Varanasi	929,270	1,100,748
Nashik	656,925	1,076,967
Meerut	753,778	1,074,229
Faridabad	617,717	1,054,981
Haora	950,435	1,008,704
Pimpri Chinchwad	..	1,006,417