Q196
Geography (incl. West Bengal)Transport, Ports & Urbanisation
Which of the following States has three mega cities now?
- a.Uttar Pradesh
- b.West Bengal
- c.Gujarat
- d.Maharastra
Answer: (D) Maharastra
Answer as of 2022 — this may have changed since.
Maharashtra has three big metropolitan centres, Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur, which were its three largest urban agglomerations in Census 2011. It also had the largest urban population of any state, about 5 crore. West Bengal is dominated by a single metropolis, Kolkata, and Gujarat by Ahmedabad and Surat. Uttar Pradesh has many million-plus cities, but none comparable in size to Mumbai or Pune.