PAD 3800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mumbai Metropolitan Region, Gross Domestic Product, Socalled
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2001 census the mumbai metropolitan area was home to 17. 7 million people. Of these, 11. 9 million lived in the peninsula of greater. Mumbai itself, including approximately 4 million who lived on the island at the southern tip of the peninsula, which was also the area"s central business district and major employment center. The other 5. 8 million metropolitan residents lived in neighboring cities north and east of greater mumbai, including thane (1. 3 million persons), Kalyan (1. 2 million persons) and navi (new) mumbai, a new town on the mainland across from he peninsula with a population of. Middle east and north america: mumbai"s ports and airport were the busiest in india. In terms of services, mumbai played the roles of both new. Mumbai"s dominance as its country"s trading and financial center was even more complete than that of new york. Mumbai had been unable to parlay these strengths into a role as an international financial center.