Navi Mumbai

Navi Mumbai is a planned city in Maharashtra, India's Mumbai Metropolitan Region, on the Indian mainland opposite Salsette Island and the city of Mumbai across parts of Thane and Raigad districts, with about 1.12 million residents at the 2011 census within a metropolitan region of 18.4 million. Conceived in the early 1970s under the name New Bombay to relieve overcrowding in Mumbai and renamed Navi Mumbai in 1995, it hosts Jawaharlal Nehru Port, which handles about 56 percent of India's container traffic, has repeatedly ranked among India's cleanest cities in the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan survey, and opened Navi Mumbai International Airport in December 2025.