List of metropolitan areas in India

This is a list of metropolitan areas by population in India. The 74th Amendment to the Indian Constitution defines a metropolitan area as:

An area having a population of 10 Lakh or 1 Million 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 public notification to be a Metropolitan area.^[1][2]

List

Metropolitan area	State/Territory	Skyline	Population		Area
			Count	As of	km^2	sq mi
National Capital Region	Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan		46,069,000	2011^[3]	55,083	21,268^[4]
Mumbai	Maharashtra		23,598,000	2011^[5]	6,328	2,443^[6]
Chennai	Tamil Nadu		15,900,000	2018	5,904	2,280
Kolkata	West Bengal		15,134,000	2022^[7]	1,887	729^[8]
Bangalore	Karnataka		13,193,000	2022^[9]	8,005	3,091^[10]
Hyderabad	Telangana		10,534,000	2022^[11]	7,257	2,802^[12]
Pune	Maharashtra		10,089,916	2022^[13]	7,256	2,802^[13]
Ahmedabad	Gujarat		8,450,000	2022^[14]	1,866	720^[14]
Andhra Pradesh Capital Region	Andhra Pradesh		5,873,588	2011^[15]	8,352.69	3,224.99
Surat	Gujarat		7,784,000	2022^[16]	3,261	1,259
Visakhapatnam	Andhra Pradesh		6,000,000	2022^[17]^[18]	7,329	2,830^[19]
Jaipur	Rajasthan		4,107,000	2022	4,873	1,881^[20]
Kozhikode	Kerala		3,921,000	2022	944	364^[21]
Kochi	Kerala		3,301,000	2022	440	170^[22]
Kanpur	Uttar Pradesh		3,190,000	2022^[23]	403	156
Nagpur	Maharashtra		2,991,000	2022	3,567	1,377^[24]
Coimbatore	Tamil Nadu		2,935,000	2022	888	343
Thiruvananthapuram	Kerala		2,793,000	2022	310	120^[25]
Salem	Tamil Nadu		2,463,367	2022^[26]^[27]	1,265.197	488.495^[28]
Nashik	Maharashtra		2,180,000^[29]	2022^[29]	259.13^[30]	100.05^[30]
Madurai	Tamil Nadu		1,799,000	2022^[8]	247	95
Malappuram	Kerala		1,729,522	2022^[8]	858	331
Raipur	Chhattisgarh		1,760,000	2022^[31]	1,000	390
Jodhpur	Rajasthan		2,300,000	2022^[32]^[33]^[34]	1,005	388

See also

• List of cities in India by population
• List of million-plus urban agglomerations in India
• List of states and union territories of India by population
• Demographics of India

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