Navi Mumbai Navi Mumbai Navi Mumbai (नवी मुंबई, ), formerly New Bombay, is a planned city off the west coast of the Indian state of Maharashtra in Konkan division. The city is divided into two parts, North Navi Mumbai and South Navi Mumbai, for the individual development of Panvel Mega City, which includes the area from Kharghar to Uran. Navi Mumbai has a population of 1,119,477 as per the 2011 provisional census. In the late 1960s Adi Kanga, a civil engineer, and some of this friends lamented that their city, the bustling Bombay (now Mumbai), was overpopulated. As the commercial capital of
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