| City – Metropolitan area |
State(s) |
Metro population |
Metro rank |
State or country Capital |
Rank in state |
Number 1 in the state |
Nearest airpot |
Preferred airport |
| Bombay |
Maharashtra |
21347412 |
1 |
Yes |
1 |
picked |
in area |
same |
| Delhi |
UP, Delhi, Haryana |
18639762 |
2 |
Yes |
1 |
picked |
in area |
same |
| Chennai |
Tamil Nadu |
7305169 |
4 |
Yes |
1 |
picked |
in area |
same |
| Hyderabad |
Andhra Pradesh |
6290397 |
6 |
Yes |
1 |
picked |
in area (60 kms away) |
same |
| Gandhinagar – Ahmedabad |
Gujarat |
5334314 |
7 |
Yes |
1 |
picked |
Ahmedabad (40 kms) |
same |
| Kanpur |
Uttar Pradesh |
3494275 |
9 |
No |
1 |
picked |
in area (only Air India) |
Lucknow (80 kms) |
| Patna |
Bihar |
2656318 |
13 |
Yes |
1 |
picked |
in area |
same |
| Indore |
Madhya Pradesh |
2049193 |
15 |
No |
1 |
picked |
in area |
same |
| Bhubaneswar |
Orissa |
1666429 |
22 |
Yes |
1 |
picked |
in area |
same |
| Guwahati |
Assam |
1038071 |
44 |
Yes |
1 |
picked |
in area |
same |
| Ropar – Chandigarh |
Punjab |
1033671 |
45 |
Yes |
3 |
Ludhiana (19) |
Chandigarh (60 kms away) |
same |
| Jodhpur |
Rajasthan |
987919 |
47 |
No |
2 |
Jaipur (11) |
in area |
same |
| Kharagapur |
West Bengal |
511303 |
82 |
No |
5 |
Kolkata (3) |
Kolkata (120 kms away) |
same |
| Roorkee – Haridwar |
Uttarakhand |
250645 |
166 |
No |
2 |
Dehradun (57) |
Dehradun (1 hr away) |
Delhi (180 kms) |
| Mandi |
Himachal Pradesh |
32014 |
|
No |
3 |
Shimla (194) |
Kullu-Manali airport (60 kms away) |
same |
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