Mumbai
Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, is one of the largest cities in India and the capital of the state Maharashtra. A cosmopolitan metropolis, Mumbai was built on seven islands on the Konkan coastline which over time were joined to form the island city of Bombay.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Western Suburbs and South Mumbai.
Western Suburbs
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The Western Suburbs of Mumbai consists of Bandra, Khar, Santacruz, Juhu, Vile Parle, Andheri and Jogeshwari, which are some of the oldest suburbs of the city.
South Mumbai
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South Mumbai is a one of the most affluent districts of Mumbai. Many of the city's famous landmarks, including the iconic Gateway of India, Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, and Marine Drive are found here.
North Central
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Fort and South Central.
Fort
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Fort is the old city centre of Mumbai, known for its British colonial architecture, especially the Victorian Gothic structures recognised as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai.
South Central
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South Central Mumbai covers the area once considered as a sort of backyard to South Mumbai.
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport
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Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, also known as Mumbai Airport, is the main airport of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is one of India's busiest airports and one of the main international gateways to the country.
Central and Harbour Suburbs
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The Central Suburbs and the Harbour Suburbs of Mumbai consist of the suburbs of Kurla, Vidyavihar, Ghatkopar, Vikhroli, Kanjur Marg, Bhandup, Mulund, Powai, Chembur, Mankhurd, Govandi and Trombay.
North Mumbai
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North Mumbai consists of the suburbs of Borivali, Gorai, Goregaon, Kandivali, Malad and Manori. They lie on the Western train line and are usually considered part of the Western Suburbs.
Elephanta
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Elephanta is an island off of Mumbai and home to the Elephanta Caves, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It consists of a collection of cave temples predominantly dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva.
Sanjay Gandhi National Park
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The Sanjay Gandhi National Park, formerly the Borivali National Park, is the lungs of Mumbai. It is famous for its leopards and the caves inside the park.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Goldman Sachs and Shivaji Park.
Goldman Sachs
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Shivaji Park
Park
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Shivaji Park, officially Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Park, is a public park situated in Dadar, Mumbai. It is the largest park in the island city. Similar but bigger in size to Azad Maidan and August Kranti Maidan, it is of historical and cultural value because of the political and social gatherings it has witnessed, both in pre- and post-independence Mumbai.
Prabhadevi railway station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dharavi and Bandra.
Dharavi
Locality
Bandra
Suburb
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Bandra is a coastal suburb located in Mumbai, the largest city of the Konkan division in Maharashtra, India. The area is located to the immediate north of the River Mithi, which separates Bandra from the Mumbai City district.
Mahim
Suburb
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Mahim, ) is a neighborhood in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The Mahim Junction railway station on the Western Railway and Harbour Railway of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network is the last station of the city, as neighboring Bandra is part of the Mumbai Suburb.
Mumbai
- Type: City with 12,400,000 residents
- Description: capital city in Maharashtra, India
- Also known as: “Asumumbay” and “Numbai”
- Historically known as: “Bombay”
- Categories: megacity, provincial capital, locality, metropolis, business cluster, and largest city
- Location: Maharashtra, Western India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
19.0177° or 19° 1′ 4″ northLongitude
72.8439° or 72° 50′ 38″ eastPopulation
12,400,000Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)IATA airport code
BOMUnited Nations Location Code
IN BOMOpen location code
7JFJ2R9V+3HOpenStreetMap ID
node 16173235OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1275339Wikidata ID
Q1156
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Mumbai” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Moembaai”
- Afrikaans: “Mumbai”
- Albanian: “Mumbai”
- Amharic: “ሙምባይ”
- Angika: “मुम्बई”
- Arabic: “بومباي” (historical)
- Arabic: “مومباي”
- Aragonese: “Bombai” (historical)
- Armenian: “Մումբայ”
- Arpitan: “Mumbai”
- Assamese: “মুম্বাই”
- Asturian: “Bombay”
- Asturian: “Mumbai”
- Awadhi: “मुम्बई”
- Azerbaijani: “Mumbay”
- Balinese: “Mumbai”
- Bashkir: “Мумбаи”
- Bashkir: “Мумбай”
- Basque: “Mumbai”
- Belarusian: “Мумбаі”
- Bengali: “মুম্বই”
- Bengali: “মুম্বাই”
- Bhojpuri: “मुंबई”
- Bishnupriya: “পুল্লাপ মুম্বাই”
- Bosnian: “Mumbai”
- Brahui: “Mumbaí”
- Breton: “Mumbai”
- Bulgarian: “Бомбай”
- Bulgarian: “Мумбай”
- Burmese: “မွမ်ဘိုင်းမြို့”
- Catalan: “Bombai” (historical)
- Catalan: “Mumbai”
- Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Bombay”
- Central Bikol: “Mumbai”
- Central Kurdish: “مومبای”
- Chechen: “Мумбаи”
- Chinese: “Mumbai”
- Chinese: “孟买”
- Chinese: “孟買”
- Chuvash: “Бомбей”
- Chuvash: “Мумбаи”
- Cornish: “Mumbai”
- Crimean Tatar: “Mumbayi”
- Croatian: “Mumbai”
- Czech: “Bombaj” (historical)
- Czech: “Bombay”
- Czech: “Mumbaí”
- Danish: “Bombay”
- Danish: “Mumbai”
- Dhivehi: “މުންބާއީ”
- Dimli (individual language): “Mumbai”
- Dotyali: “मुम्बई”
- Dutch: “Bombai”
- Dutch: “Bombay” (historical)
- Dutch: “Mombai”
- Dutch: “Mombay”
- Dutch: “Mumbai”
- Dutch: “Mumbay”
- Eastern Mari: “Мумбаи”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مومباى”
- Erzya: “Мумбаи ош”
- Esperanto: “Bombajo”
- Esperanto: “Mumbajo”
- Estonian: “Mumbai”
- Extremaduran: “Bombay” (historical)
- Faroese: “Mumbai”
- Fiji Hindi: “Mumbai”
- Fijian: “Mubai”
- Finnish: “Bombay”
- Finnish: “Mumbai”
- French: “Mumbai”
- French: “Bombay” (historical)
- Friulian: “Bombay”
- Galician: “Bombai”
- Galician: “Mumbai”
- Galician: “Mumbaī”
- Gan Chinese: “孟買”
- Georgian: “მუმბაი”
- German: “Mumbai”
- Goan Konkani: “Bombaim”
- Greek: “Βομβάη”
- Greek: “Μουμπάι”
- Guarani: “Mumbái”
- Guianese Creole French: “Bombay”
- Gujarati: “મુંબઈ”
- Haitian: “Bombay”
- Hakka Chinese: “Men-mâi”
- Hakka Chinese: “Mumbai”
- Hausa: “Mumbai”
- Hebrew: “מומבאי”
- Hindi: “बम्बई”
- Hindi: “मुंबई”
- Hindi: “मुम्बई”
- Hungarian: “Bombay”
- Hungarian: “Mumbai”
- Icelandic: “Mumbai”
- Ido: “Mumbai”
- Iloko: “Mumbai”
- Indonesian: “Mumbai”
- Ingush: “Мумбаи”
- Interlingua: “Bombay” (historical)
- Interlingua: “Mumbai”
- Interlingue: “Mumbai”
- Irish: “Mumbai”
- Italian: “Bombay” (historical)
- Italian: “Mumbai”
- Japanese: “ボンベイ”
- Japanese: “ムンバイ”
- Japanese: “孟買”
- Javanese: “Mumbai”
- Kabiyè: “Pombe”
- Kabyle: “Mumbay”
- Kalaallisut: “Mumbai”
- Kalmyk: “Мумбай балһсн”
- Kannada: “ಬಾಂಬೆ|ಬೊಂಬಾಯಿ|”
- Kannada: “ಮು೦ಬೈ”
- Kannada: “ಮುಂಬಯಿ”
- Kannada: “ಮುಂಬೈ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Mumbai”
- Kashmiri: “بَمبَے”
- Kashmiri: “ممبئی”
- Kashmiri: “ممبیی”
- Kazakh: “Бомбей қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Мумбаи қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Мумбаи”
- Kazakh: “Мумбай қаласы”
- Kirghiz: “Мумбаи”
- Komering: “Mumbai”
- Korean: “뭄바이”
- Kurdish: “Bombay”
- Kurdish: “Mumbai”
- Kurdish: “Mumbaî”
- Ladin: “Mumbai”
- Ladino: “Mumbai”
- Lao: “ມຸມໄບ”
- Latin: “Bombainum”
- Latin: “Bombaya” (historical)
- Latin: “Mumbai”
- Latvian: “Mumbaja”
- Lezghian: “Мумбаи”
- Limburgan: “Bombay” (historical)
- Lithuanian: “Bombėjus” (historical)
- Lithuanian: “Mumbajus”
- Lojban: “mymbais”
- Lombard: “Mumbai”
- Low German: “Mumbai”
- Lower Sorbian: “Mumbai”
- Luxembourgish: “Mumbai”
- Macedonian: “Мумбај”
- Maithili: “मुम्बई”
- Malagasy: “Mumbai”
- Malay: “Mumbai”
- Malayalam: “മുംബൈ”
- Maltese: “Bombay”
- Maltese: “Mumbai”
- Maltese: “Mumbaj”
- Manipuri: “ꯃꯨꯝꯕꯥꯏ”
- Maori: “Mumbai”
- Marathi: “Mumbai”
- Marathi: “मुंबई”
- Mazanderani: “بمبئی” (historical)
- Mazanderani: “مومبای”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Mumbai”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Mumbai”
- Mingrelian: “მუმბაი”
- Moksha: “Мумбаи”
- Moksha: “Мумбай”
- Mongolian: “Мумбай”
- Moroccan Arabic: “بومباي”
- Moroccan Arabic: “مومباي”
- Nepali: “बम्बई”
- Nepali: “मुम्बई”
- Newari: “ग्रेटर मुम्बई”
- Northern Frisian: “Mumbai”
- Northern Sami: “Mumbai”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mumbai”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mumbai”
- Norwegian: “Mumbai”
- Novial: “Mumbai”
- Nyanja: “Mumbai”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bombai” (historical)
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mumbai”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Modorbyht”
- Oriya: “ଭାରତର ପ୍ରବେଶଦ୍ଵାର”
- Oriya: “ମୁମ୍ବାଇ”
- Ossetian: “Бомбей”
- Ossetian: “Мумбаи”
- Pampanga: “Mumbai”
- Panjabi: “ਮੁੰਬਈ”
- Persian: “بمبئی/مومبای”
- Persian: “بمبئی”
- Persian: “مومبای”
- Piemontese: “Mumbai”
- Polish: “Bombaj” (historical)
- Polish: “Mumbaj”
- Portuguese: “Bombay”
- Portuguese: “Mumbai”
- Portuguese: “Bombaim” (historical)
- Pushto: “ممبای”
- Quechua: “Mumbai”
- Romanian: “Bombay”
- Romanian: “Mumbai”
- Romanian: “Mumbay”
- Russia Buriat: “Мумбай”
- Russian: “Бомбей”
- Russian: “Мумбаи”
- Russian: “Мумбай”
- Rusyn: “Мумбаі”
- Samogitian: “Mombajos”
- Sanskrit: “मुम्बई”
- Sanskrit: “मुम्बै”
- Santali: “ᱢᱩᱢᱵᱟᱭ”
- Sardinian: “Bombay” (historical)
- Scots: “Mumbai”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Mumbai”
- Serbian: “Мумбај”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bombay” (historical)
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mumbai”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mumbaj”
- Sicilian: “Mumbai”
- Silesian: “Bůmbaj”
- Sindhi: “ممبئي”
- Sinhala: “බොම්බාය”
- Sinhala: “මුම්බාය”
- Sinhala: “මුම්බායි”
- Slovak: “Bombaj” (historical)
- Slovak: “Mumbaí”
- Slovenian: “Bombaj”
- Slovenian: “Mumbaj”
- South Azerbaijani: “بمبئی”
- Spanish: “Mumbai”
- Spanish: “Bombay” (historical)
- Swahili: “Mumbai”
- Swedish: “Bombay” (historical)
- Swedish: “Mumbai”
- Swiss German: “Mumbai”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Mumbai”
- Tagalog: “Mumbai”
- Tajik: “Мумбай”
- Talysh: “Bombey”
- Talysh: “Mumbəj”
- Tamil: “மும்பை”
- Tatar: “Mumbai”
- Tatar: “Мумбай”
- Telugu: “బొంబాయ్”
- Telugu: “ముంబై”
- Thai: “บอมเบย์”
- Thai: “มุมไบ”
- Tibetan: “འབོམ་སྦེ”
- Tosk Albanian: “Mumbai”
- Tulu: “ಮುಂಬೈ”
- Turkish: “Bombay” (historical)
- Turkish: “Mumbai”
- Turkmen: “Bombeý”
- Turkmen: “Mumbai”
- Twi: “Mumbai”
- Uighur: “Bombay” (historical)
- Ukrainian: “Бомбей”
- Ukrainian: “Мумбаї”
- Ukrainian: “Мумбай”
- Upper Sorbian: “Bombaj”
- Upper Sorbian: “Bombay”
- Upper Sorbian: “Mumbai”
- Urdu: “بمبئی” (historical)
- Urdu: “ممبئی”
- Uzbek: “Mumbay”
- Venetian: “Mumbai”
- Veps: “Mumbai”
- Vietnamese: “Bombay”
- Vietnamese: “Mạnh Mãi”
- Vietnamese: “Mumbai”
- Vlax Romani: “Mumbai”
- Volapük: “Mumbai”
- Võro: “Mumbai”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mumbai”
- Welsh: “Mumbai”
- Western Armenian: “Մումպայ”
- Western Frisian: “Bombay”
- Western Frisian: “Mumbai”
- Western Panjabi: “ممبئی”
- Wu Chinese: “孟买”
- Yakut: “Мумбаи”
- Yiddish: “מומביי”
- Yoruba: “Mumbai”
- Yue Chinese: “孟買”
- “ma tomo Munpa”
- “Mumbai”
- “Mumbajos”
- “मुंबई”
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