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India occupies 2.41% of the world's land area but supports over 18% of the world's population. At the 2001 census 72.2% of the population [ 51 ] lived in about 638,000 villages [ 52 ] and the remaining 27.8% [ 51 ] lived in more than 5,100 towns and over 380 urban agglomerations.
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 and New Delhi, the capital of India.
The population of India as per 2011 census was 1,210,854,977. [31] India added 181.5 million to its population since 2001, slightly lower than the population of Brazil. India, with 2.4% of the world's surface area, accounts for 17.5% of its population. Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state with roughly 200 million people.
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.
The population residing in urban areas in India, according to the 1901 census, was 11.4%, [1] increasing to 28.53% by the 2001 census, and is now currently 34% in 2017 according to the World Bank. [2] According to a survey by the United Nations, in 2030 40.76% of country's population is expected to reside in urban areas. [3]
Bangalore is a megacity with a population of 8,443,675 in the city and 10,456,000 in the urban agglomeration, [6] [5] up from 8.5 million at the 2011 census. [116] It is the third most populous city in India, the 18th most populous city in the world and the fifth most populous urban agglomeration in India.
Kolkata, [ a ] also known as Calcutta[ b ] (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, 80 km (50 mi) west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary financial and commercial centre of eastern and northeastern India. [ 16 ]
It occupies nearly three-quarters of the area and population of India and includes all of the three mega cities of India: Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata. In a more specific and administrative sense, North India can also be used to denote the Indo-Gangetic Plain within this broader expanse, stretching from the Ganga-Yamuna Doab to the Thar Desert. [2]