Control of population

The following tables are the list of cities in India by population. Often cities are bifurcated into multiple regions (municipalities) which results in creation of cities within cities which may figure in the list. The entire work of this article is based on Census of India, 2011, conducted by the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, under Ministry of Home Affairs (India), Government of India.

Location of Indian Cities. Hover over the dot to see the city name with rank in parentheses.

List

The list includes the cities and not urban agglomerations.

Definitions:^[1]

• Towns/Cities with populations of 1 lakh (100,000) are categorized as Class-I towns or Cities^[1][2]
• The 46 cities with populations of 1 million and above are known as Million Plus UAs or Cities
• The 3 cities 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.

Rank	City	Population (2011)[3]	Population (2001)	State or union territory
1	Mumbai	12,442,373	11,978,450	Maharashtra
2	Delhi	11,007,835	9,879,172	Delhi
3	Bangalore	8,436,675	4,301,326	Karnataka
4	Hyderabad	6,809,970	3,637,483	Telangana
5	Ahmedabad	5,570,585	3,520,085	Gujarat
6	Chennai	4,681,087	4,343,645	Tamil Nadu
7	Kolkata	4,486,679	4,572,876	West Bengal
8	Surat	4,467,797	2,433,835	Gujarat
9	Pune	3,124,458	2,538,473	Maharashtra
10	Jaipur	3,046,163	2,322,575	Rajasthan
11	Lucknow	2,817,105	2,185,927	Uttar Pradesh
12	Kanpur	2,765,348	2,551,337	Uttar Pradesh
13	Nagpur	2,405,665	2,052,066	Maharashtra
14	Indore	1,964,086	1,474,968	Madhya Pradesh
15	Thane	1,841,488	1,262,551	Maharashtra
16	Bhopal	1,798,218	1,437,354	Madhya Pradesh
17	Visakhapatnam[a][5]	1,728,128	982,904	Andhra Pradesh
18	Pimpri-Chinchwad	1,727,692	1,012,472	Maharashtra
19	Patna	1,684,222	1,366,444	Bihar
20	Vadodara	1,670,806	1,306,227	Gujarat
21	Ghaziabad	1,648,643	968,256	Uttar Pradesh
22	Ludhiana	1,618,879	1,398,467	Punjab
23	Agra	1,585,704	1,275,134	Uttar Pradesh
24	Nashik	1,486,053	1,077,236	Maharashtra
25	Faridabad	1,414,050	1,055,938	Haryana
26	Meerut	1,305,429	1,039,405	Uttar Pradesh
27	Rajkot	1,286,678	967,476	Gujarat
28	Kalyan-Dombivli	1,247,327	1,193,512	Maharashtra
29	Vasai-Virar	1,222,390	693,350	Maharashtra
30	Varanasi	1,201,815	1,091,918	Uttar Pradesh
31	Srinagar	1,180,570	898,440	Jammu and Kashmir
32	Aurangabad	1,175,116	873,311	Maharashtra
33	Dhanbad	1,162,472	1,065,327	Jharkhand
34	Amritsar	1,132,383	966,862	Punjab
35	Navi Mumbai	1,120,547	704,002	Maharashtra
36	Allahabad	1,112,544	975,393	Uttar Pradesh
37	Howrah	1,077,075	1,007,532	West Bengal
38	Ranchi	1,073,427	847,093	Jharkhand
39	Gwalior	1,069,276	827,026	Madhya Pradesh
40	Jabalpur	1,055,525	932,484	Madhya Pradesh
41	Coimbatore	1,050,721	930,882	Tamil Nadu
42	Vijayawada	1,034,358	851,282	Andhra Pradesh
43	Jodhpur	1,033,918	851,051	Rajasthan
44	Madurai	1,017,865	928,869	Tamil Nadu
45	Raipur	1,010,087	605,747	Chhattisgarh
46	Kota[6]	1,001,694	694,316	Rajasthan
47	Chandigarh	961,587	808,515	Chandigarh
48	Guwahati	957,352	809,895	Assam
49	Solapur	951,558	872,478	Maharashtra
50	Hubli–Dharwad	943,788	786,195	Karnataka
51	Tiruchirappalli[7]	916,674	752,066	Tamil Nadu
52	Bareilly	898,167	718,395	Uttar Pradesh
53	Mysore	887,446	755,379	Karnataka
54	Tiruppur	877,778	344,543	Tamil Nadu
55	Gurgaon	876,824	173,542	Haryana
56	Aligarh	872,575	669,087	Uttar Pradesh
57	Jalandhar	862,196	706,043	Punjab
58	Bhubaneswar	837,737	648,032	Odisha
59	Salem	831,038	696,760	Tamil Nadu
60	Mira-Bhayandar	814,655	520,388	Maharashtra
61	Warangal[8]	811,844	530,636	Telangana
62	Jalgaon	798,514	462,280	Maharashtra
63	Guntur[9]	743,354	514,461	Andhra Pradesh
64	Bhiwandi	711,329	598,741	Maharashtra
65	Saharanpur	703,345	455,754	Uttar Pradesh
66	Gorakhpur	671,048	622,701	Uttar Pradesh
67	Bikaner	647,804	529,690	Rajasthan
68	Amravati	646,801	549,510	Maharashtra
69	Noida	642,381	305,058	Uttar Pradesh
70	Jamshedpur	631,364	573,096	Jharkhand
71	Bhilai	625,697	556,366	Chhattisgarh
72	Cuttack	606,007	534,654	Odisha
73	Firozabad	603,797	279,102	Uttar Pradesh
74	Kochi	601,574	596,473	Kerala
75	Nellore[10][11]	600,869	378,428	Andhra Pradesh
76	Bhavnagar	593,768	511,085	Gujarat
77	Dehradun	578,420	426,674	Uttarakhand
78	Durgapur	566,937	493,405	West Bengal
79	Asansol	564,491	475,439	West Bengal
80	Rourkela	552,734	426,354	Odisha
81	Nanded	550,564	430,733	Maharashtra
82	Kolhapur	549,283	493,167	Maharashtra
83	Ajmer	542,580	485,575	Rajasthan
84	Akola	537,149	400,520	Maharashtra
85	Gulbarga	532,031	422,569	Karnataka
86	Jamnagar	529,308	443,518	Gujarat
87	Ujjain	515,215	430,427	Madhya Pradesh
88	Loni	512,296	120,945	Uttar Pradesh
89	Siliguri	509,709	472,374	West Bengal
90	Jhansi	507,293	383,644	Uttar Pradesh
91	Ulhasnagar	506,937	473,731	Maharashtra
92	Jammu[12]	503,690	369,959	Jammu and Kashmir
93	Sangli-Miraj & Kupwad	502,697	436,781	Maharashtra
94	Mangalore	499,486	399,565	Karnataka
95	Erode[13]	498,129	173,600	Tamil Nadu
96	Belgaum	488,292	399,653	Karnataka
97	Ambattur	478,134	310,967	Tamil Nadu
98	Tirunelveli	473,637	411,831	Tamil Nadu
99	Malegaon	471,006	409,403	Maharashtra
100	Gaya	463,454	385,432