List of cities in Delhi by population


The constituent parts of the National Capital Territory of Delhi form an urban agglomeration. In the census of India 2011, an urban agglomeration was defined as follows:
"An urban agglomeration is a continuous urban spread constituting a town and its adjoining outgrowths, or two or more physically contiguous towns together with or without outgrowths of such towns. An Urban Agglomeration must consist of at least a statutory town and its total population should not be less than 20,000 as per the 2001 Census. In varying local conditions, there were similar other combinations which have been treated
as urban agglomerations satisfying the basic condition of contiguity."

Delhi urban agglomeration constituents

This is a list of towns and cities that are constituent parts of the urban agglomeration of Delhi, a union territory of India. All have a population greater than 100,000, as counted in the 2011 census of India.

Non-city constituents

The urban agglomeration of Delhi has 113 constituent parts, as identified by the Directorate of Census Operations, for the 2011 census of India. Of these, 100 are defined as towns for census purposes, which may be categorised as municipal corporations, municipal councils, cantonment boards, census towns, or out growths; and 13 are cities. These, all with a population of 1 lakh or more, are noted below:

Census towns

Cantonment boards

Out growths

  • Nil

Municipal corporations

Municipal councils

Constituents with ''city'' status

Constituents of the Delhi UA which are classified as cities, all with a population greater than 100,000, as per the 2011 census, are shown in the table below.
Urban agglomerationName of constituentDistrictType*Population 2011MaleFemalePopulation
below 5 yrs		Literacy rate
DelhiDelhi Municipal Corporation-M Corp11,007,8355,871,3625,136,4731,209,27587.60
New Delhi Municipal Council-M Cl249,998136,438113,56020,85790.93
Kirari Suleman NagarNorth West DelhiCT282,598152,135130,46340,72079.22
Sultan Pur MajraNorth West DelhiCT181,62495,81685,80824,25479.78
Bhalswa Jahangir PurNorth West DelhiCT197,150106,27190,87927,65376.94
BurariNorth DelhiCT145,58477,76767,81718,13481.94
Karawal NagarNorth East DelhiCT224,666120,284104,38230,98584.57
MustafabadNorth East DelhiCT127,01266,75460,25819,37076.10
Gokal PurNorth East DelhiCT121,93864,93557,00315,29985.24
MandoliCT120,34564,12356,22216,21280.72
Dallo PuraEast DelhiCT154,95566,75481,42573,53081.92
HastsalWest DelhiCT177,03395,06881,96523,92084.68
Nangloi JatWest DelhiCT205,497110,06895,42928,27483.40
Delhi CantonmentSouth West DelhiCB116,35267,70348,64913,21491.11
DeoliSouth DelhiCT169,41091,17378,23722,52683.85

Abbreviations: M Corp. = municipal corporation, M = municipality, CT = census town, OG = out growth, NA = notified area, CB = cantonment board