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 10 Lakh or 1 Million 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
Metropolitan area State/Territory Skyline Population Area
CountAs ofkm2 sq mi
National Capital RegionDelhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan 46,069,0002011[3] 55,083 21,268[4]
Mumbai Maharashtra 23,598,0002011[5] 6,328 2,443[6]
ChennaiTamil Nadu 15,900,0002018 5,904 2,280
KolkataWest Bengal 15,134,0002022[7] 1,887 729[8]
BangaloreKarnataka 13,193,0002022[9] 8,005 3,091[10]
HyderabadTelangana 10,534,0002022[11] 7,257 2,802[12]
PuneMaharashtra 10,089,9162022[13] 7,256 2,802[13]
AhmedabadGujarat 8,450,0002022[14] 1,866 720[14]
Andhra Pradesh Capital RegionAndhra Pradesh 5,873,5882011[15] 8,352.69 3,224.99
SuratGujarat 7,784,0002022[16] 3,261 1,259
VisakhapatnamAndhra Pradesh 6,000,0002022[17][18] 7,329 2,830[19]
JaipurRajasthan 4,107,0002022 4,873 1,881[20]
KozhikodeKerala 3,921,0002022 944 364[21]
Kochi Kerala 3,301,0002022 440 170[22]
KanpurUttar Pradesh 3,190,0002022[23] 403 156
NagpurMaharashtra 2,991,0002022 3,567 1,377[24]
CoimbatoreTamil Nadu 2,935,0002022 888 343
ThiruvananthapuramKerala 2,793,0002022 310 120[25]
SalemTamil Nadu 2,463,3672022[26][27] 1,265.197 488.495[28]
Nashik Maharashtra
2,180,000[29] 2022[29] 259.13[30] 100.05[30]
MaduraiTamil Nadu 1,799,0002022[8] 247 95
MalappuramKerala 1,729,5222022[8] 858 331
Raipur Chhattisgarh 1,760,0002022[31] 1,000 390
JodhpurRajasthan 2,300,0002022[32][33][34] 1,005 388

See also

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