Point out some important cities on the map of India that have population more than 50 lakhs?
Answers
Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi and Mumbai
Location of Indian Cities. Hover over the dot to see the city name with rank in parentheses.
List
The list includes the cities and not urban agglomerations.
Definitions:
Towns/Cities with populations of 1 lakh (100,000) are categorized as Class-I towns or Cities
The 46 cities with populations of 1 million and above are known as Million Plus UAs or Cities
The 3 cities with populations of 10 million and above are known as Mega Cities (The census defines the three as Greater Mumbai UA (18.4 million), Delhi UA (16.3 million) and Kolkata UA (14.1 million)[1])
The cities listed in bold are the capitals of the respective state / union territory.
Rank City Population
(2011) Population
(2001) State or union territory Ref
1 Mumbai 12,442,373 11,978,450 Maharashtra [4]
2 Delhi 11,034,555 9,879,172 Delhi [5]
3 Bangalore 8,443,675 4,301,326 Karnataka [6]
4 Hyderabad 6,993,262 3,637,483 Telangana [7]
5 Ahmedabad 5,577,940 3,520,085 Gujarat [8]
6 Chennai 4,646,732 4,343,645 Tamil Nadu [9][10]
7 Kolkata 4,496,694 4,572,876 West Bengal [11]
8 Surat 4,467,797 2,433,835 Gujarat [8]
9 Pune 3,124,458 2,538,473 Maharashtra [12]
10 Jaipur 3,046,163 2,322,575 Rajasthan [13]
11 Lucknow 2,817,105 2,185,927 Uttar Pradesh [14]
12 Kanpur 2,765,348 2,551,337 Uttar Pradesh [15]
13 Nagpur 2,405,665 2,052,066 Maharashtra [16]
14 Visakhapatnam[a] 2,035,922 982,904 Andhra Pradesh [18]
15 Indore 1,960,631 1,474,968 Madhya Pradesh
16 Thane 1,818,872 1,262,551 Maharashtra
17 Bhopal 1,798,218 1,437,354 Madhya Pradesh
18 Pimpri-Chinchwad 1,729,359 1,012,472 Maharashtra
19 Patna 1,683,200 1,366,444 Bihar
20 Vadodara 1,666,703 1,306,227 Gujarat
21 Ghaziabad 1,636,068 968,256 Uttar Pradesh
22 Ludhiana 1,613,878 1,398,467 Punjab
23 Coimbatore[19] 1,601,438 930,882 Tamil Nadu
24 Agra 1,585,704 1,275,134 Uttar Pradesh
25 Madurai[20] 1,561,129 928,869 Tamil Nadu 26 to 50
Rank City Population
(2011)[3] Population
(2001) State or union territory
26 Nashik 1,486,973 1,077,236 Maharashtra
27 Faridabad 1,404,653 1,055,938 Haryana
28 Meerut 1,309,023 1,039,405 Uttar Pradesh
29 Rajkot 1,286,995 967,476 Gujarat
30 Kalyan-Dombivali 1,246,381 1,193,512 Maharashtra
31 Vasai-Virar 1,221,233 693,350 Maharashtra
32 Varanasi 1,201,815 1,091,918 Uttar Pradesh
33 Srinagar 1,192,792 898,440 Jammu and Kashmir
34 Aurangabad 1,171,330 873,311 Maharashtra
35 Dhanbad 1,161,561 1,065,327 Jharkhand
36 Amritsar 1,132,761 966,862 Punjab
37 Navi Mumbai 1,119,477 704,002 Maharashtra
38 Allahabad 1,117,094 975,393 Uttar Pradesh
39 Ranchi 1,073,440 847,093 Jharkhand
40 Howrah (city area) 1,072,161 1,007,532 West Bengal
41 Jabalpur 1,054,336 932,484 Madhya Pradesh
42 Gwalior 1,053,505 827,026 Madhya Pradesh
43 Vijayawada 1,034,358 851,282 Andhra Pradesh[21]
44 Jodhpur 1,033,918 851,051 Rajasthan
45 Raipur 1,010,087 605,747 Chhattisgarh
46 Kota[22] 1,001,694 694,316 Rajasthan
47 Guwahati 963,429 809,895 Assam
48 Chandigarh 960,787 808,515 Chandigarh
49 Solapur 951,118 872,478 Maharashtra
50 Hubballi-Dharwad 943,857 786,195 Karnataka
51 to 75
Rank City Population
(2011)[3] Population
(2001) State or union territory
51 Tiruchirappalli[23] 916,674 752,066 Tamil Nadu
52 Bareilly 898,167 718,395 Uttar Pradesh
53 Mysore 887,446 755,379 Karnataka
54 Tiruppur 877,778 644,543 Tamilnadu
55 Gurgaon 876,824 173,542 Haryana
56 Aligarh 872,575 669,087 Uttar Pradesh
57 Jalandhar 862,196 706,043 Punjab
58 Bhubaneswar 837,737 648,032 Odisha
59 Salem 831,038 696,760 Tamil Nadu
60 Mira-Bhayandar 814,655 520,388 Maharashtra
61 Warangal[24] 811,844 530,636 Telangana
62 Thiruvananthapuram 752,490 744,983 Kerala
63 Guntur[25] 743,354 514,461 Andhra Pradesh
64 Bhiwandi 711,329 598,741 Maharashtra
65 Saharanpur 703,345 455,754 Uttar Pradesh
66 Gorakhpur 671,048 622,701 Uttar Pradesh
67 Bikaner 647,804 529,690 Rajasthan
68 Amravati 646,801 549,510 Maharashtra
69 Noida 642,381 305,058 Uttar Pradesh
70 Jamshedpur 631,364 573,096 Jharkhand
71 Bhilai 625,697 556,366 Chhattisgarh
72 Cuttack 606,007 534,654 Odisha
73 Firozabad 603,797 279,102 Uttar Pradesh
74 Kochi 601,574 596,473 Kerala