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Dharavi

Dharavi is a residential area in , , India. It has often been considered one of the world's largest slums. Dharavi has an area of just over 2.39 square kilometres and a population of about 1,000,000.
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Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
  • Type: Locality
  • Description: large slum and administrative ward in Mumbai
  • Also known as: “Bombay Dharavi”, “Daravi”, “Darravy”, “Dhārāvi”, and “Dorrovy”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Riwa Fort and Sion railway station.

Photo: सावंत योगेश ९७, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , locally known as Kala Qilla or Black Fort, is a fort in central , on the banks of the Mithi River. The fort is currently in a dilapidated condition amidst the Dharavi slums.

Railway station
Photo: Trinidade, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sion is a railway station on the Central line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network, located in the neighborhood of . Its location near the Mithi River means that the railway between and , directly to the north, has flooded frequently during the Indian monsoon.

Photo: Udaykumar PR, CC BY 3.0.
The Sion Hillock Fort is a fort in , . It was built under the regime of the English East India Company, between 1669 and 1677, atop a conical hillock when Gerard Aungier was the Governor of Bombay.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mahim and Antop Hill.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood in , , India. The on the Western Railway and Harbour Railway of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network is the last station of the , as neighboring is part of Mumbai .

Suburb
Photo: Tom Pratt, CC BY 2.0.
is a neighbourhood in to the east of the Harbour railway line. It derives its name from a local Marathi owner called Antoba. In course of time the name was anglicised to "Antop". is situated 2½ km southeast of Dharavi.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
Mumbai consists of Dadar, Dharavi, Matunga, Wadala, Sion and Mahim. It is a solidly middle-class district, which developed due to immigration after independence.

Dharavi

Latitude
19.04556° or 19° 2′ 44″ north
Longitude
72.85678° or 72° 51′ 24″ east
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
Open location code
7JFJ2VW4+6P
Open­Street­Map ID
way 280668341
Geo­Names ID
1272866
Wiki­data ID
Q649632
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Dharavi” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “دهارافي”
  • Chinese: “达拉维”
  • Czech: “Dharavi”
  • Czech: “Dháráví”
  • Danish: “Dharavi”
  • Dutch: “dharavi”
  • Dutch: “Dharavi”
  • Finnish: “Dharavi”
  • French: “Dharavi”
  • German: “Dharavi”
  • Greek: “Νταράβι”
  • Greek: “Παραγκούπολη Νταράβι”
  • Hindi: “धारावी”
  • Igbo: “Dharavi”
  • Indonesian: “Dharavi”
  • Italian: “Dharavi”
  • Japanese: “ダラヴィ”
  • Japanese: “ダラビ”
  • Kashmiri: “دھراوی”
  • Korean: “다라비”
  • Macedonian: “Дарави”
  • Malay: “Dharavi”
  • Malayalam: “ധാരാവി”
  • Marathi: “धारावी”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dharavi”
  • Norwegian: “Dharavi”
  • Persian: “داراوی”
  • Polish: “Dharavi”
  • Portuguese: “Dharavi”
  • Russian: “Дхарави”
  • Spanish: “Dharavi”
  • Swedish: “Dharavi”
  • Tamil: “தாராவி”
  • Thai: “ธาราวี”
  • Turkish: “Dharavi”
  • Ukrainian: “Дхараві”
  • Urdu: “دھراوی”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Dharavi”. Photo: A.Savin, FAL.