Kolkata metropolitan area

Kolkata Metropolitan Area (KMA) বৃহত্তর কলকাতা
Metropolitan Area
Country	India
State	West Bengal
Districts	Kolkata Howrah Chandannagore Hugli-Chuchura Serampore Parts of South 24 Parganas district and North 24 Parganas district
Population (2011 Census)
• Metro	14,112,536
Time zone	IST (UTC+5.30)

Kolkata Metropolitan Area (KMA), also known as The Calcutta Metropolitan Area and Kolkata Metropolitan Region (KMR) is the urban agglomeration of the city of Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the third most populous metropolitan area in India after Delhi and Mumbai.

It consists of many cities and towns around the city of Kolkata.The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority takes care of this region and this region is developing very fast with new technologies, buildings, infrastructures, parks, sports club, Malls, riverside region developments, etc.

Constituents

The KMA consists of :

Municipal corporations (4)

• 1. Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) (Total Ward-144)
• 2 Howrah Municipal Corporation (HMC) (Total Ward- 50)
• 3. Chandannagore Municipal Corporation
• 4. Bidhannagar, Kolkata Municipal Corporation

Municipalities (37)

A. Hooghly district

• 1. Baidyabati Municipality
• 2. Bhadreswar, Hooghly Municipality
• 3. Bansberia Municipality
• 4. Champdani Municipality
• 5. Dankuni Municipality
• 6. Hugli-Chuchura Municipality
• 7. Konnagar Municipality
• 8. Rishra Municipality
• 9. Serampore Municipality
• 10. Uttarpara Kotrung Municipality

B. Howrah district 

• 11. Bally Howrah Municipality
• 12.Uluberia Municipality

C. Nadia district 

• 13. Gayespur Municipality
• 14. Kalyani Municipality

D. North 24 Parganas district

• 15. Baranagar Municipality
• 16. Barasat Municipality
• 17. Barrackpore Municipality
• 18. Bhatpara Municipality
• 19. Dum Dum Municipality
• 20. Garulia Municipality
• 21. Halisahar Municipality
• 22. Kamarhati Municipality
• 23. Kanchrapara Municipality
• 24. Khardah Municipality
• 25 Madhyamgram Municipality
• 26. Naihati Municipality
• 27. New Barrackpore Municipality
• 28.North Barrackpur Municipality
• 29. North Dumdum Municipality
• 30. Panihati Municipality
• 31. South Dumdum Municipality
• 32.Titagarh Municipality

E. South 24 Parganas district 

• 33. Baruipur Municipality
• 34. Budge Budge Municipality
• 35. Maheshtala Municipality
• 36. Pujali Municipality
• 37. Rajpur Sonarpur Municipality

• 72 cities
• 527 towns and villages

• Many more regions are said to be occupied in the Metropolitan Region of Kolkata by 2015.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census data, the total population of KMA is 14,112,536. KMDA report states the total area is 1886.67 km², making the population density 7,480 per km².Which makes Kolkata India's highest population density among metropolitan area . Almost twice than Mumbai.

See also

• List of airports in the Kolkata metropolitan area
• List of metropolitan areas in Asia by population