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Mumbai Metropolitan Region (ISO: Muṁbaī Mahānagara Pradēśa; abbreviated to MMR and previously also known as Greater Bombay Metropolitan Area), [6] [7] is a metropolitan area consisting of Mumbai and its satellite towns in the northern Konkan division of Maharashtra in western India.
484.61 km 2: Pune Municipal Corporation [7] 9 Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh: 463 km 2: Bhopal Municipal Corporation [8] 10 Surat: Gujarat: 461.60 km 2: Surat Municipal Corporation [9] 11 Meerut: Uttar Pradesh: 450 km 2: Meerut Municipal Corporation: 12 Mumbai: Maharashtra: 437.71 km 2 [10] Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation [11] 13 Chennai: Tamil Nadu ...
The total area of Mumbai is 603.4 km 2 (233 sq mi). [3] Of this, the island city spans 67.79 km 2 (26 sq mi), while the suburban district spans 370 km 2 (143 sq mi), together accounting for 437.71 km 2 (169 sq mi) under the administration of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
Mumbai (/ m ʊ m ˈ b aɪ / muum-BY; ISO: Muṁbaī, Marathi: ⓘ), also known as Bombay (/ b ɒ m ˈ b eɪ / bom-BAY; its official name until 1995), is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial capital and the most populous city proper of India with an estimated population of 12.5 million (1.25 crore). [20]
It also consists of land belonging Airport Authority of India, which consists of the Mumbai Airport and Air India Colony (which comes in Kalina). The main roads passing through Santa Cruz (E) are the Western Express Highway, Nehru Road, Santacruz-Chembur Link Road and the Kalina-Kurla Link Road. The PIN codes of this area are 400055, 400029 and ...
Dharavi is a residential area in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It has often been considered to be one of the world's largest slums . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Dharavi has an area of just over 2.39 square kilometres (0.92 sq mi; 590 acres) [ 3 ] and a population of about 1,000,000. [ 4 ]
The first skyscrapers in Mumbai were constructed during the 1970s, when Usha Kiran and Matru Mandir were developed and stood at about 76 metres (250 feet), or 25 floors, each. After a significant lull, construction projects since the mid-1990s began taking the skyline upwards, with a major acceleration in the pace of development since 2000 ...
Maharashtra with a total area of 307,713 km 2 (118,809 sq mi), is the third-largest state by area in terms of land area and constitutes 9.36% of India's total geographical area. The State lies between 15°35' N to 22°02' N latitude and 72°36' E to 80°54' E longitude.