North India, according to combined definition by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Geological Survey of India and Ministry of Culture refers to the northern region of India comprising the states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and the Union Territories of Delhi, Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh and Chandigarh.
List The following is the list cities in North India, sorted by their population. The population statistics indicated in this article are for the year 2011, in accordance with the 15th Indian Census.
The cities which are listed in bold are the capital of the respective state / union territory / country.
Rank City State/UT Population 1 Delhi Delhi 11,007,835 2 Jaipur Rajasthan 3,046,189 3 Lucknow Uttar Pradesh 2,817,105 4 Kanpur Uttar Pradesh 2,767,348 5 Ghaziabad Uttar Pradesh 2,358,525 6 Ludhiana Punjab 1,618,879 7 Agra Uttar Pradesh 1,585,704 8 Faridabad Haryana 1,404,653 9 Meerut Uttar Pradesh 1,226,709 10 Varanasi Uttar Pradesh 1,201,815 11 Srinagar Jammu and Kashmir 1,180,570 12 Amritsar Punjab 1,132,76 13 Prayagraj Uttar Pradesh 1,112,544 14 Jodhpur Rajasthan 1,056,191 15 Chandigarh Chandigarh 1,025,682 16 Kota Rajasthan 1,001,694 17 Bareilly Uttar Pradesh 898,167 18 Moradabad Uttar Pradesh 889,810 19 Gurgaon Haryana 876,824 20 Aligarh Uttar Pradesh 872,575 21 Jalandhar Punjab 862,196 22 Saharanpur Uttar Pradesh 705,478 23 Gorakhpur Uttar Pradesh 673,446 24 Bikaner Rajasthan 644,406 25 Noida Uttar Pradesh 637,272 26 Firozabad Uttar Pradesh 603,797 27 Dehradun Uttarakhand 578,420 28 Ajmer Rajasthan 542,580 29 Loni Uttar Pradesh 516,082 30 Jhansi Uttar Pradesh 505,693 31 Jammu Jammu and Kashmir 502,197
See also
List of most populous metropolitan areas in India List of cities in Uttar Pradesh by population List of cities in India
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