Ambarnath

Ambarnath is an eastern suburban city in Thane district of the Indian state of Maharashtra, and it forms part of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. It is a commuter city on the outer eastern edge of the Mumbai urban area. The 2011 census counted 253,475 people, of whom 132,582 were male and 120,893 female, and its population had grown by 24.4 percent from the 203,804 recorded in 2001. The population is overwhelmingly Hindu, with about eighty percent of residents following that religion. The English Wikipedia article on the city is short and lists among its notable people a former Indian hockey player, a footballer, a politician and an actor, so the account here is limited to what that article supports and further history and geography remain to be added from other sources.