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Age of City : About 600 years
Area: About 160 sq km*
* under municipal area
Population : 16.18 lakh
Male : 8:75 lakh
Female : 7.43 lakh
Population Density : 978 persons/sq km
Slum population: 15%
Road length: 1,376 km
No. of buses: 150
No. of autos: 30,000
No. of on-road cars: 21.23 lakh*
*highest no. of per-capita vehicles in India
Bicycle ridership: 6.1 lakh
No. of CCTV cameras: 1,700
No. of water connections
Authorised: 2.39 lakh
Unauthorised: 1.3 lakh
Air pollution index
PM2.5 reading: 91 micrograms/cu3*
*in world’s top 10 cities with worst air pollution
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