Major Cities Population

In this section we will discuss about major cities population. Population of major Indian cities include population of kolkata, population of Mumbai, of Delhi, Chennai, and other important cities.

If we check census 2001 for Indian cities population, we will find that Mumbai is the most populated city in the country. The city ranks 3rd in the world after Tokyo and Mexico. Kolkata is 9th and Delhi 14th according to the US Census Bureau.

Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore and Chennai follows Mumbai in population. The migration of rural population to urban areas has made the cities of India densely populated. About 27% of the population live in urban areas. There are 4,000 cities and towns in India. 300 cities have population more than 1,00,000. Seven cities have population more than 3 million.

Check out the following table and find out Indian states population according to census 2001:

Major Cities	Population (Census 2001)
Greater Mumbai (Bombay)	11,914,398
Delhi	9,817,439
Kolkata (Calcutta)	4,580,544
Bangalore	4,292,223
Chennai (Madras)	4,216,268
Ahmedabad	3,515,361
Hyderabad	3,449,878
Pune	2,540,069
Kanpur	2,532,138
Surat	2,433,787
Jaipur	2,324,319
Lucknow	2,207,340
Nagpur	2,051,320
Indore	1,597,441
Bhopal	1,433,875
Ludhiana	1,395,053
Patna	1,376,950
Vadodara	1,306,035
Thane	1,261,517
Agra	1,259,979
Kalyan-Dombivali	1,193,266
Varanasi	1,100,748
Nashik	1,076,967`
Meerut	1,074,229
Faridabad	1,054,981
Haora	1,008,704
Pimpri Chinchwad	1,006,417

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