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Mumbai
India
Mumbai is the sweet, sweaty smell of hope, and it is the stench of greed. It is the blue-eyed prince of Bollywood films, and it is the beggar on the streets. It is all of these things, all the time, vibrating around you in a nauseating, beautiful dance.
Gregory David Roberts (Author of Shantaram)
Mumbai, India
pop: 12.5M (metro: 21.5M)
area: 603 KM² (metro: 4,355 KM²)
founded in: 1534, by the Portuguese. However, the history stretches back over 2,000 years, when fishing communities first inhabited the group of islands that would later become the city of Bombay.
other names: Bombay, City of Dreams, Mayanagari (A Hindi term meaning "City of Illusions")
famous for: Bollywood, Dharavi slum, Gateway of India, Taj Hotel
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