Kolkata and Chennai are not among Top Four Mega Cities of India

The mega cities are the ones which have population over four millions. There are only eight mega cities in India as per 2011 Census of India.  The Top four in descending population order are:

1. Mumbai (Capital City of Maharashtra State)
2. Delhi (Capital City Delhi)
3. Bangalore (Capital city of Karnataka) and
4. Hyderabad (Capital City of Telangana – new State of India)

The next in this order are:

1. Ahmedabad (Gujarat)
2. Chennai (Capital City of Tamil Nadu)
3. Kolkata (Capital City of West Bengal) and
4. Surat Gujarat).

The cities which have more than two million population are: Pune (Maharashtra), Jaipur (Rajasthan), Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh), Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) and Nagpur (Maharashtra).

Traditionally, we have been hearing the four big metro cities of India are: Kolkata (old name Calcutta), Mumbai (Old name Bombay), Delhi and Chennai (Old name Madras).  If you consider urban agglomeration, we still count Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai as top four major urban agglomerations in India.  Next six in line are Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Pune, Surat and Jaipur,.  Each one listed has population of over three million.