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.
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1. Navi Mumbai (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationInfobox: population_total
1,618,000
On Continent: Asia, Lead paragraph names India; continent follows from the atlas record for India
by the Union Ministry of Urban Development and the Quality Council of India
View the Source 2. Navi Mumbai (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 19.03, longitude 73.01
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 0 m
P2046 (area)
area 344.0 sq km
P571 (inception)
inception 1972
- In Group: Cities of Southern Asia (World), Wikipedia infobox, country field
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Wikidata Q61445, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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