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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]
Maharashtra is an Indian state that was formed on 1 May 1960 with 26 initial districts.Since then, 11 additional districts have been created, the most recent of which is Palghar district.
The name Mumbai (Marathi: मुंबई) originated from Mumbā or Mahā-Ambā—the name of the patron Hindu goddess (Kula Devata) Mumbadevi of the native Koli community [40] —and from ā'ī, meaning "mother" in the Marathi language, which is the mother tongue of the Koli people and the official language of Maharashtra.
Mumbai Suburban district (Marathi: Mumbai Upanagar Jilhā) is the second most populous district of Maharashtra in the Konkan Division. With its administrative headquarters in Bandra , the district consists of three subdivisions or tehsils (townships): Kurla , Andheri , and Borivali . [ 2 ]
The table below lists all the talukas (tahsils/tehsils) of all the thirty-six districts in the Indian state of Maharashtra, along with district-subdivision and urban status information of headquarters villages/towns, as all talukas are intermediate level panchayats between the zilla parishad (district councils) at the district level and gram panchayats (village councils) at the lower level.
It sits on Salsette Island, partially shared with the Thane district. [5] Mumbai is bounded by the Arabian Sea to the west. [6] Sanjay Gandhi National Park is located partly in the Mumbai suburban district, and partly in the Thane district, and it extends over an area of 103.09 km 2 (39.80 sq mi). [7]
South Mumbai, colloquially SoBo from South Bombay in Indian English, [1] [2] administratively the Mumbai City District, is the city centre and the southernmost precinct of Greater Bombay. It extends from Colaba to Mahalaxmi (Western side), Byculla (Central Side) and Mazgaon (Harbour Side) neighbourhoods, and comprises the city's old and ...
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