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Name Image Summary Cantonment area : The Cantonment area in Bangalore was used as a military cantonment during the British Raj in the 19th century. After the Indian independence, the area merged with rest of the city but still retains names for localities and streets used by the British as well as the colonial architecture in many buildings.
The existing Kannada name, Bengalūru, was declared the city's official name in 2006. Bangalore is considered to be one of the fastest-growing global major metropolises. [15] [16] Recent estimates of the metro economy of its urban area has ranked Bangalore as one of the most productive metro areas of India.
For administrative purposes, the city of Bangalore was divided into nine zones, which are further subdivided into a total of 198 wards administered by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP). [ 1 ] Ward. No. Ward Name. Taluk [ 2 ] Hobli. Assembly.
Bangalore is situated in the southeast of the South Indian state of Karnataka. It is positioned at 12.97° N 77.56° E and covers an area of 2,190 square kilometres (850 sq mi). A landlocked city, Bangalore is located in the heart of the Mysore Plateau (a region of the larger Deccan Plateau) at an average elevation of 920 metres (3,020 ft).
12,765,000. • Metro density. 1,600/km 2 (4,100/sq mi) Time zone. UTC+5.30 (IST) Greater Bangalore, or Greater Bengaluru following the renaming of the city in 2014, is the core metropolitan area of Bangalore city and its neighbouring rurban lands. It occupies an area of 741 sq km.
Administrative divisions of Bangalore. In 2007, for administrative purposes, the city of Bangalore was divided into nine zones, which were further subdivided into a total of 198 wards administered by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP). [1] After delimitation in 2023, BBMP increased the number of wards to 225.
Bangalore Urban district is the most densely populated of the thirty-one districts that comprise the Indian state of Karnataka. It is surrounded by the Bangalore Rural district on the east and north, the Ramanagara district on the west and the Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu on the south. Bangalore Urban district came into being in 1986 ...
The southern Indian state of Karnataka consists of 31 districts grouped into 4 administrative divisions, viz., Belagavi, Bengaluru , Gulbarga, and Mysore. Geographically, the state has three principal variants: the western coastal stretch, the hilly belt comprising the Western Ghats, and the plains, comprising the plains of the Deccan plateau.