Question

Indian Settlements in Hierarchy Example CityCriteriaClassified under

(a)	Kohima	Urban area with population between 50000 - 1 lakh	Town
(b)	Udaipur	Urban area with population between 5000 - 1 lakh	Class I City
(c)	Chennai	Cities having more than 10 million people	Mega City

Choose the correctly classified option(s).

• A. (a)
• B. (b)
• C. (b) only
• D. (a) and (c) only

Answer 1

The correct option is B (b)

Indian Settlements in Hierarchy Cities Criteria Examples

Mega Cities	Cities having more than 10 million people	Greater Mumbai UA, Delhi UA, Kolkata UA
Metropolitan Cities/ Million Plus cities	Cities having population between one million to 10 million	Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad
Cities/ Class 1 cities	Urban areas having population between 1 lakh to one million	Jalandhar, Udaipur, Gorakhpur, Shillong, Nellore
Towns	All the urban areas having population between 5000 to 1 lakh	Kohima