List of North Indian cities by population

The term North India officially refers to the states of Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and the Union Territories of Delhi and Chandigarh, Rajasthan.

List

The following is the list of cities in North India, sorted by their population. The population statistics indicated in this article are for the year 2011, in accordance with the 15th Indian Census.

• The cities which are listed in bold are the capital of the respective state / union territory / country.

Rank	City	State	Population
1	Delhi	Delhi	11,007,835
2	Jaipur	Rajasthan	3,073,350
3	Lucknow	Uttar Pradesh	2,815,601
4	Kanpur	Uttar Pradesh	2,767,031
5	Indore	Madhya Pradesh	1,960,631
6	Bhopal	Madhya Pradesh	1,795,648
6*	Patna	Bihar	1,683,200
7	Ghaziabad	Uttar Pradesh	1,636,068
8	Ludhiana	Punjab	1,613,878
9	Agra	Uttar Pradesh	1,574,542
10	Faridabad	Haryana	1,404,653
11	Meerut	Uttar Pradesh	1,309,023
12	Varanasi	Uttar Pradesh	1,201,815
13	Srinagar	Jammu and Kashmir	1,192,792
14	Amritsar	Punjab	1,132,761
15	Allahabad	Uttar Pradesh	1,117,094
16	Jabalpur	Madhya Pradesh	1,054,336
17	Gwalior	Madhya Pradesh	1,053,505
18	Jodhpur	Rajasthan	1,033,918
19	Kota	Rajasthan	1,001,365
20	Chandigarh	Chandigarh	960,787
21	Bareilly	Uttar Pradesh	898,167
22	Moradabad	Uttar Pradesh	889,810
23	Gurgaon	Haryana	876,824
24	Aligarh	Uttar Pradesh	872,575

• List of most populous metropolitan areas in India
• List of cities in India