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| Mumbai
Mumbai, which was previously known as Bombay is a major metropolitan city of India. It is the state capital of Maharashtra . Mumbai city is known as the business capital of India, it being the country's principal financial and communications centre. The city has the largest and the busiest port handling India's foreign trade and a major Intentional airport. India's largest Stock Exchange which ranks as the third largest in the world, is situated in Mumbai. Here, trading of stocks is carried out in billions of rupees everyday. Description about Mumbai can not be complete without the mention of Bollywood, the biggest Indian film industry which churns out hundreds of Hindi blockbusters every year. Mumbai is the glamour of Bollywood cinema, cricket on the maidans on weekends, bhelpuri on the beach at Chowpatty and red double-decker buses. It has vital streetlife, India's best nightlife, and more bazaars than you could ever explore. Most of the year, Mumbai's climate is warm and humid. Between November and February, the skies are clear,and the temperature is cooler. From March the temperature becomes warm and humid till mid June, the beginning of monsoon. Monsoon ends by the end of September. October is comparatively hot and humid. Area: 440 sq km Population: 18 million Country: India Time Zone: GMT/UTC +5.5 Telephone Area Code: 022 Reference taken from Lonely Planet and www.aboutmumbai.com  Back
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