Following table is list of city by their population:
| Rank | City/urban Area | Population |
| 1 | Mumbai (Bombay) | 16,368,000 |
| 2 | Kolkata (Calcutta) | 13,217,000 |
| 3 | Delhi | 12,791,000 |
| 4 | Chennai | 6,425,000 |
| 5 | Bangalore | 5,687,000 |
| 6 | Hyderabad | 5,534,000 |
| 7 | Ahmadabad | 4,519,000 |
| 8 | Pune | 3,756,000 |
| 9 | Surat | 2,811,000 |
| 10 | Kanpur | 2,690,000 |
| 11 | Jaipur | 2,324,000 |
| 12 | Lucknow | 2,267,000 |
| 13 | Nagpur | 2,123,000 |
| 14 | Patna | 1,707,000 |
| 15 | Indore | 1,639,044 |
| 16 | Vadodara | 1,492,000 |
| 17 | Bhopal | 1,455,000 |
| 18 | Coimbatore | 1,446,000 |
| 19 | Ludhiana | 1,395,000 |
| 20 | Kochi | 1,355,000 |
| 21 | Visakhapatnam | 1,329,000 |
| 22 | Agra | 1,321,000 |
| 23 | Varanasi | 1,212,000 |
| 24 | Madurai | 1,195,000 |
| 25 | Meerut | 1,167,000 |
| 26 | Nashik | 1,152,000 |
| 27 | Jabalpur | 1,117,000 |
| 28 | Jamshedpur | 1,102,000 |
| 29 | Asansol | 1,090,000 |
| 30 | Dhanbad | 1,064,000 |
| 31 | Faridabad | 1,055,000 |
| 32 | Allahabad | 1,050,000 |
| 33 | Amritsar | 1,011,000 |
| 34 | Vijayawada | 1,011,000 |
| 35 | Rajkot | 1,002,000 |