Mumbai City

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Mumbai City District
District map
State Maharashtra
Division : Kokan
Administrative headquarters : Mumbai
Area : 157 km²
Residents : 3,085,411
Population density : 19,652 inhabitants / km²
Website : mumbaicity.gov.in

The district of Mumbai City ( Marathi : मुंबई जिल्हा ) is one of 35 districts of the state of Maharashtra in India .

The administrative seat of the district is Mumbai . The district consists of Old Mumbai ( Old Bombay ) and some districts in the south and center of the city of Mumbai. The last census in 2011 showed a total population of 3,085,411 people.

history

From pre-Christian times to the year 1348 the area - like the whole region - was ruled by various Buddhist and Hindu rulers. The first state known by name was the Maurya Empire , the last non-Muslim dynasty were the Yadavas of Devagiri. After decades of military clashes with Muslim rulers in northern India, it was occupied by Muslim armies in 1348. Thereafter, various Muslim dynasties ruled until 1534 (Sultanate of Delhi, Bahmani, Dekkan sultanates). From 1500 onwards, there was fierce fighting for rule on the coast between the Muslim rulers and the Portuguese. In 1534 the Muslim Sultanate of Gujarat ceded the area to the Portuguese. In 1626 the settlement was partially destroyed by a joint attack by the British and Dutch. In 1661 the British took over. From 1668 the British East India Company took over the administration. From the 16th century on, there were several pirate bases on the coast near Bombay. These attacked British merchant ships again and again. Until the 18th century there were also clashes with the French, Portuguese, fleets of the Muslim rulers of the region and the Marathas. After the Marathas were defeated by the British, Bombay became the capital of the British administrative region of the Bombay Presidency . With the independence of India in 1947 and the reorganization of the country, it became part of the new state of Bombay State in 1950 . In 1960, Bombay State was divided and the area came to the newly created state of Maharashtra. The district was established in its current form on October 1, 1990 from parts of what was then the Mumbai district. The northern suburbs became the Mumbai Suburban district.

population

The urban population makes up 100 percent of the total population. Because the entire district consists of different parts of the city of Mumbai. Mumbai City has a high level of literacy. At the last census it was a total of 89.21 percent. For men, it is slightly higher at 91.48 percent than for women (86.45 percent). The high surplus of men is striking. There are only 832 women for every 1,000 men. But a change is taking place in this relationship. In 2001 there were only 777 women for every 1000 men - whereas today there are 914 girls for every 1000 boys among 0–6 year olds.

Population development

As everywhere in India, the population in the Mumbai City district grew strongly for decades until 2001. Since then, the number of residents has decreased due to migration to the suburbs. The decrease was 7.57 percent, or more than 250,000 people, between the last two censuses.

A) Mumbai area (now Mumbai City and Mumbai Suburban)

B) Area of ​​today's Mumbai City district

Population of the district by confession

A clear vast majority of the population are Hindus. But there are numerically significant minorities of Muslims, Buddhists, Christians and Jainas. The following table shows the exact religious composition of the population:

year Buddhists Christians Hindus Jainas Muslims Sikhs Others 1 not specified Total
number % number % number % number % number % number % number % number % Residents %
2001 161,417 4.84% 106.240 3.18% 2,119,750 63.50% 159.021 4.76% 734.484 22.00% 16,330 0.49% 39,482 1.18% 1,307 0.04% 3,338,031 100.00%
1 including 35,209 Parsis and 767 Jews (Bani Israel)

Source: 2001 India Census

District population by language

Mumbai is a multiethnic city. Less than 40 percent of the population speaks Marathi. There are a number of larger linguistic minorities. Languages ​​with more than 100,000 members are Hindi (653,000 with Hindi dialects), Urdu and Gujarati. Tamil, Telugu, Marwari (a Hindi dialect), Konkani (55,488), Kannada (45,266), Bengali (34,994), Punjabi (25,812), Sindhi (23,388), Kachchhi (22,093) and Malayalam (21,957) are each rated by over 20,000 people spoke. The following table shows the exact linguistic composition of the population:

year Marathi Hindi Urdu Gujarati Tamil Telugu Marwari Other Total
number % number % number % number % number % number % number % number % Residents %
2001 1,316,535 39.44% 542.979 16.27% 512,808 15.36% 390.386 11.70% 99,689 2.99% 87.214 2.61% 81,331 2.44% 307.089 9.20% 3,338,031 100.00%
Source: 2001 India Census

Web links

Commons : Mumbai City District  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census
  2. ^ History of the district up to 1900 in the Imperial Gazeteer Of India
  3. ↑ Census of India 2001 (PDF; 54 kB)