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The diversity of India is well reflected in the varied demographic composition of its cities. More than a quarter of Indian people live in urban areas, ranging from the highly concentrated metro cities to the thinly-populated remote locations. Most of these cities are inhabited with people showing much variety in language, culture, ethnicity and religion, thus presenting a microcosm of the country itself. There are cultural legacy, historical background and the uneven level of economic growth that might separate one city from the other in appearance, but in essence they are all the same, and reflect the true spirit of what we call Indianness.
There is a large number of cities in India that have more than one million people residing within the extreme boundaries of their metropolitan areas. A few among them have already seen their population rising beyond ten million. Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai have traditionally been regarded as the metropolitan cities of India.
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The consistency in the economic growth of the country coupled with the sparkling success of IT, ITES, and several other knowledge-based industries have led the emergence of many new metro cities.
While Bangalore and Hyderabad have already evolved into the new-age destinations to join the big league of Indian cities, many more are making fast strides to catch up the trend and move up the ladder of economic development. These two tier and three tier cities may include the names of Ahmedabad, Surat, Jaipur, Gurgaon, Kochi, Pune, Chandigarh, Agra, Thiruvananthapuram, Lucknow, Bhopal, Nagpur, Indore, Ranchi, Patna, and Guwahati, among many others.
Some cities in India are known for their historical values with myriads of monuments, forts and mausoleums dating back to different periods of Indian chronology, while others are marked with their astounding resemblance with some of the world's top cities. There are cities that fulfill the spiritual needs of a human being and are visited by an innumerable number of devotees each year. Some yet other cities offer the most idyllic environment away from the usual din of a fast-paced urban life.
There is a lot to know about India, and there is even more to see and do in Indian cities. Explore the true spirit of India with the maps of cities being provided at different pages of this website.
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