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Mumbai ( / mʊmˈbaɪ / ⓘ, Marathi: [ˈmumbəi], ISO: Muṁbaī; formerly known as Bombay[ a]) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial capital and the most populous city of India with an estimated population of 12.5 million (1.25 crore ). [ 20] Mumbai is the centre of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, the ...
Geography of Mumbai. Terrain of the city; dark areas are swampy, medium areas are elevated regions. Mumbai (Bombay) is India 's most populous city with a population of 20 Million. It is located on Salsette Island off the coast of Maharashtra. The original Seven Islands of Bombay were merged by the British in the 18th century, to form one large ...
Dharavi is a residential area in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It has often been considered to be one of the world's largest slums. [ 1][ 2] Dharavi has an area of just over 2.39 square kilometres (0.92 sq mi; 590 acres) [ 3] and a population of about 1,000,000. [citation needed] With a population density of over 277,136/km 2 (717,780/sq mi ...
The latest World’s Wealthiest Cities Report by Henley & Partners [ 2] shows San Francisco (including the San Francisco Bay Area) overtaking New York as the city with the most billionaires, as well as overtaking Tokyo to become second to New York in millionaires. Notably Monaco, with a population under 50,000, is home to 20 billionaires.
According to the 2011 census Mumbai City district has a population of 3,085,411, [3] roughly equal to the nation of Mongolia [4] or the US state of Iowa. [5] This gives it a ranking of 115th in India (out of a total of 640). [3] The district has a population density of 19,652 inhabitants per square kilometre (50,900/sq mi) . [1]
Mumbai Metropolitan Region ( ISO: Muṁbaī Mahānagara Pradēśa; abbreviated to MMR and previously also known as Greater Bombay Metropolitan Area ), [ 6][ 7] is a metropolitan area consisting of Mumbai and its satellite towns in the northern Konkan division of Maharashtra in western India. The region has an area of 6,328 square kilometres ...
The city of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, is divided into administrative divisions. Greater Mumbai is the urban agglomeration of 18 million people (the largest in India and one of the six largest in the world) which comes under the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai. The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai employs 140,626 people.
Colaba ([koˈlaːbaː]; or ISO: Kolābā) is a part of the city of Mumbai, India. It is one of the four peninsulas of Mumbai while the other three are Worli, Bandra and Malabar Hill. During Portuguese rule in the 16th century, the island was known as Kolbhat. After the British took over the island in the late 17th century, it was known as Kolio.