Mumbai largest city, Delhi NCR largest Urban Agglomeration

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INDIA STATS : Million plus cities in India as per Census 2011

The Census 2011, released by the Registrar General of India, has shown that Mumbai continues to be India's largest populated city among its four metros with 10 million plus population. Mumbai has a population of 
18,414,288, followed by Delhi - 16,314,838 and  Kolkata- 14,112,536. 

However, when the metros along with their extended suburbs are considered, Delhi NCR, which includes Gurgaon, Faridabad, Noida, Ghaziabad emerged as the largest Urban Agglomeration with a population of 21,753,486, Mumbai Metropolitan Region which comprises of Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Vasai-Virar, Bhiwandi, and Panvel emerges second largest with a population of  20,748,395. Urban Agglomeration means an extended city comprising built up area of central core and any suburbs linked by continuous urban area.


Chennai, Hyderabad emerge as the next largest cities followed by Bangalore, Ahmedabad, and Pune. The Census findings show that Surat has added 1.7 million people during the past decade, and Jaipur has pipped Kanpur to the 10th spot. The full table of cities, and their urban agglomerations along with the 2001 Census figures is given below:

		UA 2011	Extended UA 2011	2001 Census
1	Delhi	16,314,838	21,753,486	12,877,470
2	Greater Mumbai	18,414,288	20,748,395	16,434,386
3	Kolkata	14,112,536	14,617,882	13,205,697
4	Chennai	8,696,010	8,917,749	6,560,242
5	Bangalore	8,499,399	8,728,906	5,701,446
6	Hyderabad		7,749,334	5,742,036
7	Ahmedabad	6,240,201	6,352,254	4,525,013
8	Pune		5,049,968	3,760,636
9	Surat		4,585,367	2,811,614
10	Jaipur		3,073,350	2,322,575
11	Kanpur		2,920,067	2,715,555
12	Lucknow		2,901,474	2,245,509
13	Nagpur	2,497,777	2,583,911	2,129,500
14	Ghaziabad   (NCR)	2,358,525	(NCR)	968,256
15	Indore		2,167,447	1,506,062
16	Coimbatore		2,151,466	1,461,139
17	Kochi		2,117,990	1,355,972
18	Patna		2,046,652	1,697,976
19	Kozhikode*		2,030,519	880,247
20	Bhopal		1,883,381	1,458,416
21	Thrissur *		1,854,783	330,122
22	Vadodara		1,817,191	1,491,045
23	Agra		1,746,467	1,331,339
24	Vishakhapatnam		1,730,320	1,345,938
25	Malappuram*		1,698,645	170,409
26	Thiruvananthapuram*		1,687,406	889,635
27	Ludhiana		1,613,878	1,398,467
28	Kannur*		1,642,892	498,207
29	Nashik		1,562,769	1,152,326
30	Vijayawada		1,491,202	1,039,518
31	Madurai		1,462,420	1,203,095
32	Varanasi		1,435,113	1,203,961
33	Meerut		1,424,908	1,161,716
34	Faridabad    (NCR)	1,404,653	(NCR)	1,055,938
35	Rajkot		1,390,933	1,003,015
36	Jamshedpur		1,337,131	1,104,713
37	Srinagar		1,273,312	988,210
38	Jabalpur		1,267,564	1,098,000
39	Asansol		1,243,008	1,067,369
40	Vasai - Virar (MMR)	1,221,233	(MMR)	…
41	Allahabad		1,216,719	1,042,229
42	Dhanbad		1,195,298	1,065,327
43	Aurangabad		1,189,376	892,483
44	Amritsar		1,183,705	1,003,917
45	Jodhpur		1,137,815	860,818
46	Ranchi		1,126,741	863,495
47	Raipur		1,122,555	700,113
48	Kollam*		1,110,005	380,091
49	Gwalior		1,101,981	865,548
50	Durg-Bhilainagar		1,064,077	927,864
51	Chandigarh		1,025,682	808,515
52	Tiruchirapalli		1,021,717	866,354
53	Kota		1,001,365	703,150

*As per new definition of Urban Agglomeration in Kerala