The following is the list of top 100 major cities in India is based on the population and rank along with the capital of the respective state and union territory.
List of Largest Cities in India by Population
| Rank | City | State/Territory | Population (2011) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mumbai | Maharashtra | 12,478,447 |
| 2 | Delhi | Delhi | 11,007,835 |
| 3 | Bangalore | Karnataka | 8,425,970 |
| 4 | Hyderabad | Andhra Pradesh | 6,809,970 |
| 5 | Ahmedabad | Gujarat | 5,570,585 |
| 6 | Chennai | Tamil Nadu | 4,681,087 |
| 7 | Kolkata | West Bengal | 4,486,679 |
| 8 | Surat | Gujarat | 4,462,002 |
| 9 | Pune | Maharashtra | 3,115,431 |
| 10 | Jaipur | Rajasthan | 3,073,350 |
| 11 | Lucknow | Uttar Pradesh | 2,815,601 |
| 12 | Kanpur | Uttar Pradesh | 2,767,031 |
| 13 | Nagpur | Maharashtra | 2,405,421 |
| 14 | Indore | Madhya Pradesh | 1,960,631 |
| 15 | Thane | Maharashtra | 1,818,872 |
| 16 | Bhopal | Madhya Pradesh | 1,795,648 |
| 17 | Visakhapatnam | Andhra Pradesh | 1,730,320 |
| 18 | Pimpri-Chinchwad | Maharashtra | 1,729,359 |
| 19 | Patna | Bihar | 1,683,200 |
| 20 | Vadodara | Gujarat | 1,666,703 |
| 21 | Ghaziabad | Uttar Pradesh | 1,636,068 |
| 22 | Ludhiana | Punjab | 1,613,878 |
| 23 | Agra | Uttar Pradesh | 1,574,542 |
| 24 | Nashik | Maharashtra | 1,486,973 |
| 25 | Faridabad | Haryana | 1,404,653 |
| 26 | Meerut | Uttar Pradesh | 1,309,023 |
| 27 | Rajkot | Gujarat | 1,286,995 |
| 28 | Kalyan-Dombivali | Maharashtra | 1,246,381 |
| 29 | Vasai-Virar | Maharashtra | 1,221,233 |
| 30 | Varanasi | Uttar Pradesh | 1,201,815 |
| 31 | Srinagar | Jammu and Kashmir | 1,192,792 |
| 32 | Aurangabad | Maharashtra | 1,171,330 |
| 33 | Dhanbad | Jharkhand | 1,161,561 |
| 34 | Amritsar | Punjab | 1,132,761 |
| 35 | Navi Mumbai | Maharashtra | 1,119,477 |
| 36 | Allahabad | Uttar Pradesh | 1,117,094 |
| 37 | Ranchi | Jharkhand | 1,073,440 |
| 38 | Howrah | West Bengal | 1,072,161 |
| 39 | Coimbatore | Tamil Nadu | 1,061,447 |
| 40 | Jabalpur | Madhya Pradesh | 1,054,336 |
| 41 | Gwalior | Madhya Pradesh | 1,053,505 |
| 42 | Vijayawada | Andhra Pradesh | 1,048,240 |
| 43 | Jodhpur | Rajasthan | 1,033,918 |
| 44 | Madurai | Tamil Nadu | 1,016,885 |
| 45 | Raipur | Chhattisgarh | 1,010,087 |
| 46 | Kota | Rajasthan | 1,001,365 |
| 47 | Guwahati | Assam | 963,429 |
| 48 | Chandigarh | Chandigarh | 960,787 |
| 49 | Solapur | Maharashtra | 951,118 |
| 50 | Hubballi-Dharwad | Karnataka | 943,857 |
| 51 | Bareilly | Uttar Pradesh | 898,167 |
| 52 | Moradabad | Uttar Pradesh | 889,810 |
| 53 | Mysore | Karnataka | 887,446 |
| 54 | Gurgaon | Haryana | 876,824 |
| 55 | Aligarh | Uttar Pradesh | 872,575 |
| 56 | Jalandhar | Punjab | 862,196 |
| 57 | Tiruchirappalli | Tamil Nadu | 846,915 |
| 58 | Bhubaneswar | Orissa | 837,737 |
| 59 | Salem | Tamil Nadu | 831,038 |
| 60 | Mira-Bhayandar | Maharashtra | 814,655 |
| 61 | Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram) | Kerala | 752,490 |
| 62 | Bhiwandi | Maharashtra | 711,329 |
| 63 | Saharanpur | Uttar Pradesh | 703,345 |
| 64 | Gorakhpur | Uttar Pradesh | 671,048 |
| 65 | Guntur | Andhra Pradesh | 651,382 |
| 66 | Bikaner | Rajasthan | 647,804 |
| 67 | Amravati | Maharashtra | 646,801 |
| 68 | Noida | Uttar Pradesh | 642,381 |
| 69 | Jamshedpur | Jharkhand | 629,659 |
| 70 | Bhilai | Chhattisgarh | 625,697 |
| 71 | Warangal | Andhra Pradesh | 620,116 |
| 72 | Mangalore | Karnataka | 619,664 |
| 73 | Cuttack | Orissa | 606,007 |
| 74 | Firozabad | Uttar Pradesh | 603,797 |
| 75 | Kochi (Cochin) | Kerala | 601,574 |
| 76 | Bhavnagar | Gujarat | 593,768 |
| 77 | Dehradun | Uttarakhand | 578,420 |
| 78 | Durgapur | West Bengal | 566,937 |
| 79 | Asansol | West Bengal | 564,491 |
| 80 | Nanded | Maharashtra | 550,564 |
| 81 | Kolhapur | Maharashtra | 549,283 |
| 82 | Ajmer | Rajasthan | 542,580 |
| 83 | Gulbarga | Karnataka | 532,031 |
| 84 | Jamnagar | Gujarat | 529,308 |
| 85 | Ujjain | Madhya Pradesh | 515,215 |
| 86 | Loni | Uttar Pradesh | 512,296 |
| 87 | Siliguri | West Bengal | 509,709 |
| 88 | Jhansi | Uttar Pradesh | 507,293 |
| 89 | Ulhasnagar | Maharashtra | 506,937 |
| 90 | Nellore | Andhra Pradesh | 505,258 |
| 91 | Jammu | Jammu and Kashmir | 503,690 |
| 92 | Sangli-Miraj & Kupwad | Maharashtra | 502,697 |
| 93 | Belgaum | Karnataka | 488,292 |
| 94 | Ambattur | Tamil Nadu | 478,134 |
| 95 | Tirunelveli | Tamil Nadu | 474,838 |
| 96 | Malegaon | Maharashtra | 471,006 |
| 97 | Gaya | Bihar | 463,454 |
| 98 | Jalgaon | Maharashtra | 460,468 |
| 99 | Udaipur | Rajasthan | 451,735 |
| 100 | Maheshtala | West Bengal | 449,423 |
