List of cities in India by population
The following tables are the list of cities in India by population. Often cities are bifurcated into multiple regions (municipalities) which results in creation of cities within cities which may figure in the list. The entire work of this article is based on the 2011 Census of India, conducted by the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, under Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.
Map
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:[1]
- The list is based on population within the boundaries of the respective Municipal Corporations and not the actual urban area.[1][2]
- 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 UAs 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.
Demographics
The list provides too 100 big cities in india.[37]
| Serial no. | Indian Cities | Indian States | Population | Density(/km2) | Literacy | Sex Ratio (/1000) | Main Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mumbai | Maharashtra | 1,24,42,373 | NA | 89.73% | 853 | Marathi |
| 2 | Delhi | Delhi | 1,67,87,941 | NA | 86.20% | 868 | Hindi |
| 3 | Bangalore | Karnataka | 84,43,675 | 12000 | 88.71% | 923 | Kannada |
| 4 | Hyderabad | Telangana | 67,31,790 | 10,477 | 83.26% | 955 | Telugu |
| 5 | Ahmedabad | Gujarat | 55,77,940 | 11,000 | 89.62% | 898 | Gujarati |
| 6 | Chennai | Tamil Nadu | 46,46,732 | 17,000 | 90.20% | 989 | Tamil |
| 7 | Kolkata | West Bengal | 44,96,694 | 22,000 | 86.31% | 908 | Bengali |
| 8 | Surat | Gujarat | 44,67,797 | 13,000 | 87.90% | 756 | Gujarati |
| 9 | Pune | Maharashtra | 31,24,458 | 9,400 | 89.56% | 948 | Marathi |
| 10 | Jaipur | Rajasthan | 30,46,163 | 6,500 | 72.73% | 900 | Hindi, Rajasthani |
| 11 | Lucknow | Uttar Pradesh | 28,17,105 | 8,100 | 82.50% | 940 | Hindi |
| 12 | Kanpur | Uttar Pradesh | 2,765,348 | 6,900 | 82.42% | 857 | Hindi |
| 13 | Nagpur | Maharashtra | 24,05,665 | 11,000 | 91.92% | 963 | Marathi |
| 14 | Indore | Madhya Pradesh | 1,964,086 | 4,900 | 85.57% | 925 | Hindi |
| 15 | Thane | Maharashtra | 18,41,448 | 13,000 | 89.41% | 888 | Marathi |
| 16 | Bhopal | Madhya Pradesh | 17,98,218 | 3,887 | 83.47% | 921 | Hindi |
| 17 | Visakhapatnam | Seemandhra | 1,728,128 | 2,500 | 81.79% | 978 | Telugu |
| 18 | Pimpri & Chinchwad | Maharashtra | 31,24,458 | 9,400 | 89.56% | 948 | Marathi |
| 19 | Patna | Bihar | 16,84,222 | 17,012 | 83.37% | 885 | Hindi |
| 20 | Vadodara | Gujarat | 1,670,806 | 3,400 | 90.63% | 921 | Gujarati |
| 21 | Ghaziabad | Uttar Pradesh | 16,48,643 | 8,200 | 84.78% | 885 | Hindi |
| 22 | Ludhiana | Punjab | 16,18,879 | 5,200 | 85.77% | 850 | Punjabi |
| 23 | Agra | Uttar Pradesh | 1,585,704 | 1,084 | 73.11% | 875 | Hindi |
| 24 | Nashik | Maharashtra | 14,86,053 | 5,625 | 89.85% | 899 | Marathi |
| 25 | Faridabad | Haryana | 15,94,839 | 1,890 | 82.60% | 872 | Punjabi |
| 26 | Meerut | Uttar Pradesh | 1,305,429 | 8,300 | 75.66% | 897 | Hindi |
| 27 | Rajkot | Gujarat | 12,86,678 | 8,500 | 87.80% | 908 | Gujarati |
| 28 | Kalyan & Dombivali | Maharashtra | 12,46,381 | 9,088 | 91.37% | 920 | Marathi |
| 29 | Vasai Virar | Maharashtra | 12,22,390 | 3,200 | 88.57% | 886 | Marathi |
| 30 | Varanasi | Uttar Pradesh | 11,98,491 | 7,300 | 79.27%. | 887 | Hindi, Bhojpuri |
| 31 | Srinagar | Jammu & Kashmir | 1,180,570 | 4,000 | 69.15% | 908 | Kashmiri, Urdu |
| 32 | Aurangabad | Maharashtra | 1,175,116 | 8,500 | 87.49 %. | 929 | Marathi |
| 33 | Dhanbad | Jharkhand | 11,62,472 | 2,000 | 79.47% | 891 | Hindi |
| 34 | Amritsar | Punjab | 11,32,383 | 4,500 | 84.19% | 884 | Punjabi |
| 35 | Navi Mumbai | Maharashtra | 11,20,547 | 10,318 | 89.62% | 837 | Marathi |
| 36 | Prayagraj | Uttar Pradesh | 1,168,385 | 14,000 | 84.76% | 853 | Hindi |
| 37 | Ranchi | Jharkhand | 1,073,427 | 6,100 | 87.37% | 921 | Hindi |
| 38 | Haora | West Bengal | 1,077,075 | 17,000 | 91.47% | 919 | Bengali |
| 39 | Coimbatore | Tamil Nadu | 1,050,721 | 10,052 | 91.30% | 997 | Tamil |
| 40 | Jabalpur | Madhya Pradesh | 1,055,525 | 3,390 | 87.39 %. | 935 | Hindi |
| 41 | Gwalior | Madhya Pradesh | 1,069,276 | 5,200 | 84.14% | 879 | Hindi |
| 42 | Vijayawada | Seemandhra | 10,34,358 | 17,000 | 81.24% | 975 | Telugu |
| 43 | Jodhpur | Rajasthan | 10,33,756 | 4,900 | 80.81% | 903 | Hindi |
| 44 | Madurai | Tamil Nadu | 10,17,865 | 6,877 | 90.91% | 999 | Tamil |
| 45 | Raipur | Chhattisgarh | 10,10,087 | 4,500 | 86.90% | 945 | Hindi |
| 46 | Kota | Rajasthan | 10,01,694 | 4,500 | 82.80% | 895 | Tamil |
| 47 | Guwahati | Assam | 9,57,352 | 3,400 | 91.47% | 933 | Assamese |
| 48 | Chandigarh | Punjab | 9,61,587 | 9,262 | 86.42% | 829 | Punjabi |
| 49 | Solapur | Maharashtra | 9,51,558 | 5,300 | 82.80% | 978 | Marathi |
| 50 | Hubli and Dharwad | Karnataka | 9,43,788 | 4,942 | 86.79% | 989 | Kannada |
| 51 | Bareilly | Uttar Pradesh | 9,03,668 | 3,012 | 68.25% | 895 | Hindi |
| 52 | Moradabad | Uttar Pradesh | 887,871 | 6,000 | 68.75% | 911 | Hindi |
| 53 | Karnataka | 8,93,062 | 5,857 | 87.67% | 999 | Kannada | |
| 54 | Gurgaon | Haryana | 8,76,969 | 2,463 | 87% | 846 | Hindi |
| 55 | Aligarh | Uttar Pradesh | 8,74,408 | 22,555 | 68.52% | 894 | Hindi |
| 56 | Jalandhar | Punjab | 8,62,886 | 8,600 | 86.22% | 886 | Punjabi |
| 57 | Tiruchirappalli | Tamil Nadu | 8,47,387 | 5,500 | 91.38% | 1025 | Tamil |
| 58 | Bhubaneswar | Orissa | 8,43,402 | 2,131 | 91.87% | 890 | Odia |
| 59 | Salem | Tamil Nadu | 8,29,267 | 9,079 | 84.42% | 987 | Tamil |
| 60 | Mira and Bhayander | Maharashtra | 8,09,378 | 10,000 | 90.98% | 886 | Marathi |
| 61 | Thiruvananthapuram | Kerala | 7,43,691 | 4,454 | 95.10% | 1054 | Malayalam |
| 62 | Bhiwandi | Maharashtra | 7,09,665 | 5,200 | 79.48% | 709 | Marathi |
| 63 | Saharanpur | Uttar Pradesh | 705,478 | 5,200 | 76.32% | 898 | Hindi |
| 64 | Gorakhpur | Uttar Pradesh | 6,73,446 | 4,766 | 83.91% | 903 | Hindi |
| 65 | Guntur | Seemandhra | 6,47,508 | 4,400 | 80.40% | 1019 | Hindi |
| 66 | Bikaner | Rajasthan | 6,44,406 | 4,157 | 79.29% | 904 | Rajasthani |
| 67 | Amravati | Maharashtra | 6,47,057 | 3,819 | 92.07% | 961 | Marathi |
| 68 | Noida | Uttar Pradesh | 637,272 | 2,463 | 88.58% | 824 | Hindi |
| 69 | Jamshedpur | Jharkhand | 6,31,364 | 2,818 | 86.91% | 920 | Hindi |
| 70 | Bhilai Nagar | Chhattisgarh | 6,25,700 | 3,100 | 86.63% | 941 | Hindi |
| 71 | Warangal | Telangana | 6,15,998 | 2,000 | 83.30% | 997 | Telugu |
| 72 | Cuttack | Orissa | 6,10,189 | 3,100 | 91.00% | 930 | Odia |
| 73 | Firozabad | Uttar Pradesh | 6,04,214 | 12,000 | 66.32% | 892 | Hindi |
| 74 | Kochi | Kerala | 6,02,046 | 7,100 | 97.36% | 1027 | Malayalam |
| 75 | Bhavnagar | Gujarat | 5,93,368 | 5,480 | 84.70% | 921 | Gujarati |
| 76 | Dehradun | Uttarakhand | 5,69,578 | 3,400 | 88.36% | 907 | Hindi, Garhwali |
| 77 | Durgapur | West Bengal | 5,66,517 | 3,800 | 86.20% | 925 | Bengali |
| 78 | Asansol | West Bengal | 5,63,917 | 3,500 | 83.30% | 929 | Bengali |
| 79 | Nanded Waghala | Maharashtra | 550,439 | 8,700 | 85.93% | 928 | Marathi |
| 80 | Kolapur | Maharashtra | 5,49,236 | 8,200 | 90.61% | 959 | Marathi |
| 81 | Ajmer | Rajasthan | 5,42,321 | 9,725 | 86.52% | 947 | Hindi |
| 82 | Gulbarga | Karnataka | 5,33,587 | 8,275 | 82.30% | 964 | Kannada |
| 83 | Jamnagar | Gujarat | 4,79,920 | 5,780 | 82.14% | 928 | Gujarati |
| 84 | Ujjain | Madhya Pradesh | 5,15,215 | 3,282 | 84.43% | 945 | Hindi |
| 85 | Loni | Uttar Pradesh | 516,082 | NA | 72.14% | 876 | Hindi |
| 86 | Siliguri | West Bengal | 5,13,264 | 2,700 | 85.91% | 946 | Bengali |
| 87 | Jhansi | Uttar Pradesh | 5,05,693 | 3,371 | 83.02% | 905 | Hindi |
| 88 | Ulhasnagar | Maharashtra | 5,06,098 | 3,500 | 87.49% | 881 | Marathi |
| 89 | Nellore | Seemandhra | 4,99,575 | 2,700 | 84.10% | 958 | Telugu |
| 90 | Jammu | Jammu & Kashmir | 5,02,197 | 18,768 | 90.14% | 908 | Kashmiri |
| 91 | Sangli Miraj Kupwad | Maharashtra | 502,793 | 4,766 | 85.91% | 982 | Marathi |
| 92 | Belgaum | Karnataka | 4,88,157 | 5,200 | 89.82% | 988 | Kannada |
| 93 | Mangalore | Karnataka | 4,88,968 | 2,877 | 83.91% | 903 | Kannada |
| 94 | Ambattur | Tamil Nadu | 4,66,205 | 10,000 | 92.19% | 985 | Tamil |
| 95 | Tirunelveli | Tamil Nadu | 4,73,637 | 4,370 | 90.39% | 1027 | Tamil |
| 96 | Malegoan | Maharashtra | 471,312 | 6,875 | 87.61% | 973 | Hindi , Marathi , Urdu |
| 97 | Gaya | Bihar | 4,68,614 | 9,490 | 81.63% | 896 | Hindi |
| 98 | Jalgaon | Maharashtra | 4,60,228 | 4,766 | 87.28% | 913 | Marathi |
| 99 | Udaipur | Rajasthan | 4,51,100 | 12,000 | 89.66% | 928 | Hindi, Mewari |
| 100 | Maheshtala | West Bengal | 4,48,317 | 4,766 | 82.03% | 952 | Bengali |
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