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This is a list of the most populous cities in India. Cities are a type of sub-administrative unit and are defined by the Ministry of Home Affairs. In some cases, cities are bifurcated into municipalities, which can lead to cities being included within other cities. This list is based on the Census of India using data from the 2001 census of India and the 2011 census of India. Map class ...
Notes: Chandigarh U.A. was included in the list of million plus populous Towns/U.A.s as per provisional census [8] having 51st rank but in the final population totals, its population fell short of one million ranking 55th after two less than million populous Towns/U.A.s - Mysore U.A., Bareilly U.A. [9] and as a result of it, the number of million plus populous Towns/U.A.s in India is 52 though ...
This is a list of metropolitan areas by population in India.As per the Constitution of India, a metropolitan area is defined as an area having a population of 10 lakh or more, comprised in one or more districts, and consisting of two or more municipalities or panchayats or other contiguous areas, specified by the Governor by a public notification to be a Metropolitan area.
There are 3 types of municipalities based on the population (the criteria differes from state to state), Municipal Corporation (Nagar Nigam) with more than 1 million population, Municipal Councils (Nagar Palika) with more than 25,000 and less than 1 million population, and Municipal Committee (Town Panchayat) with more than 10,000 and less than ...
Census of India (2011) states the following criteria in defining towns. They are: Statutory Town (ST): All places with a municipality, corporation, cantonment board, or notified town area committee, etc. Census Town (CT): Those which have a population greater than 5000. Other definitions include percentage of non-agriculture working population ...
Nagaland recorded the lowest growth rate of -0.5 percent. [8] India has 641,000 inhabited villages and 72.2 percent of the total population reside in these rural areas. [8] Of them 145,000 villages have population size of 500–999 persons; 130,000 villages have population size of 1000–1999 and 128,000 villages have population size of 200–499.
India is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the most populous country with over 1.4 billion people. India consists of twenty-eight states and nine union territories. [1] It is home to 17.5 percent of the world's population. [2] The first population census in British India was conducted in 1872.
India's population exceeded that of the entire continent of Africa by 200 million people in 2010. [103] However, because Africa's population growth is extremely high compared to the rest of the world, [104] [105] it is expected to surpass both China and India by the early 2030s. [106] Comparative demographics