Major Cities of India

Name of Also Capital of Climate Langua Importan Food Other Places of Industry
the City known ge t Festival Information Interest
as

Kolkata City of West Moderate Bangla/ Durga Rice and Sports- Rabindra Setu, Jute , textile,
Joy Bengal Bengali, Puja fish. football and Victoria tea, rice, rubber
Hindi Sandesh, cricket Memorial,
and Mishti Famous poet- National
English Doi Rabindranath Library
Tagore

Chennai City of Tamil Warm and Tamil Pongal Rice and Dance- Kapaleeshwara Film Industry-
Temples Nadu humid all and Sambhar, Bharatnatyam r Temple, Sri Kollywood,
year round English rasam Music- Parthasarathy electronics,
and curd Carnatic Temple, cotton and
Sport- Marina Beach leather
Cricket and and VGP
Tennis Golden Beach

Hyderabad - Joint Tropical - Telugu, Thyagaraj - Dance and Charminar, Computer

Capital of hot and Urdu a Music Mecca Masjid, Industry,
Andhra wet and festival at Golconda Fort, Famous for its
Pradesh English Ravindra Birla Mandir pearl jewellery,
and Bharati bangles ,bidri
Telangana work, patola
saree

Bengaluru Silicon Karnataka Moderate Kannada Dussehra, - Lal Bagh, Centre of

Valley and Makar Cubbon Park, India’s
of India English Sankranti, Tipu Sultan’s computer and
/ Garden Eid, Palace Internet
City of Christmas, industry.
India and the
 Major Cities of India
Feast of Textile industry,
St. silk saree
Philomena

Bhopal City of Madhya Cool and Hindi , Diwali, - Upper Lake Bharat Bhavan Jute, cotton
Lakes Pradesh dry English Dussehra, and Lower , Moti Masjid, textile and
winters, and Ram Lake are Ekant Part, chemicals,
hot Urdu Navami, beauty of Taj-ul-Masjid handicrafts and
summers Eid and Bhopal. jewellery
and humid Navratri
monsoon

Ahmedaba Amdava - Hot and Gujarati, Uttarayan, - Garba- Sabarmati Textile ,

d d dry Hindi Navratri, Gujarati Folk Ashram, gemstone and
and dance Akshardham, jewellery
English performed Siddhi Bashir
during Mosque, Kite
Navratri. Museum

City is India’s
first World
heritage city.

Chandigar - Joint Extreme Punjabi, Gurupurab - City is Rock Garden, -

h Capital of Hindi , Holi, designed by Sukhna lake,
Punjab and Diwali French Rose Garden
and English architect- Le
Haryana. Cosbusier.

It is also a
Union
Territory