Mumbai, October 31, 2011

Mumbai largest city, Delhi NCR largest Urban Agglomeration
As per the preliminary results of the Census 2011, released by the Registrar General of India, Greater Mumbai with a population of 18,414,288 continues to be India’s biggest city, followed by Delhi - 16,314,838 and  Kolkata- 14,112,536.  These three cities are India’s mega-cities with 10 million plus population. 
But, when we consider Urban Agglomeration as an extended city comprising built up area of central core and any suburbs linked by continuous urban area, we have a change at the top.  Delhi NCR, with the inclusion of Gurgaon, Faridabad, Noida and Ghaziabad becomes the No.1 Urban Agglomeration with a population of 21,753,486, ahead of 20,748,395 Mumbai Metropolitan Region comprising Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Vasai-Virar, Bhiwandi and Panvel.  Kolkata has clocked moderate growth.
 
Bangalore now almost as big as Chennai;  Jaipur moves in Top 10.
Among the next set of big cities, Bangalore with an UA population of 8,728,906 (8,499,399 excluding Hosur) is now bracketed with Chennai - 8,917,749 (8,696,010 excluding Kancheepuram).  Hyderabad , which was marginally bigger than Bangalore in 2001, has now become the sixth largest city with a population of 7,749,334.  Ahmedabad - 6,352,254 and Pune -5,049,968, make up the other larger metros. Surat - 4,585,367 continues to grow rapidly and had added over 1.7 million during the decade. Jaipur, with a population of 3,073,350 has pipped Kanpur for a spot in the Top 10.
 
 

*As per new definition of Urban Agglomeration in Kerala

Inflated population of Kerala cities
Revised definition of Urban Agglomeration in Kerala has led to some strange results, with towns like Malappuram, whose 2001 population was a mere 1.70 lakh entering the Million Plus list.  As a result, the population of all the cities of Kerala appear inflated, and thus not-comparable with the population of rest of the cities in the country.  Had the definition not been changed the projected population of Kerala cities would have been – Kochi  2,075,382 (against  2,117,990),  Thiruvananthapuram – 1,251,936 (against 1,687,406),  Kozhikode – 1,130,233 (against 2,030,519), Kannur – 844,754 (against 1,642,892), Kollam – 655,172 (against 1,110,005), Thrissur – 499,394 (against 1,854,783) and Malappuram  211,732 (against 1,698,645). This projection depicts the relative strength, size and importance of Kerala’s cities more accurately.   
 
Cities that missed the Million Plus bus
The cities that missed out on the Million plus tag are -  Bareily (979,933), Mysore (983,893), Tirupur (962,982), Solapur (951,118), Hubli-Dharwad (943,857), Salem (919,150)   Aligarh (909,559) and Gurgaon (901,968).
 
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   List of 1 lakh plus cities in Maharashtra as per Census 2011

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