Fact & Figures
- Area: 440 square kilometres.
- Coastal length - 140 kms.
- Population: 18 million, projected to reach 28.5 million by 2020.
- Location: Mumbai likes on the western coast of India, in Maharashtra state.
- Longitude: 18.96 degrees N.
- Lattitude: 72.82 degrees E.
- Climate. Summer: 23 to 35 degrees. Winter 19 - 28 degrees. The climate is tropical and temperatures are consistent throughout the year. Monsoon rains come between June and September.
- Bombay was renamed Mumbai in 1996.
- Airport: Sahr/Chhatrapati Shivaji International Air Port and Santacruz Domestic Airport.
- The currency is rupee.
- Railway Station. Bombay Central Railway Station, Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus
- Transport: Mumbai Suburban Railway, buses, taxis, rickshaws, ferries.
- Languages: Hindi, Marathi, English.
- Religon: Hindu, Islam, Christianity, Zoroastrianism, Jainism and Buddhism.
- Mumbai's trains carry 6 million people daily.
- Everyday in Mumbai, more than 200 trains make more than 2,000 trips.
- Mumbai has 1.1 square metres if open space per person, or less. This makes it the most densest and cramped city in the world.
- Annually, 3,500 people die on train tracks, an average of 10 per day. This is the result of people crossing the tracks to save time.
- A Mumbai slum house cost $5,600 to build.
- Mumbai is the financial capital of India.