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City/town Nickname References

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Piduguralla Lime City [2]

Rajahmundry Cultural Capital of Andhra Pradesh [3]

Tenali Andhra Paris [4]

Tirupati Spiritual Capital of Andhra Pradesh [5]

Financial Capital of Andhra Pradesh [5]

The Jewel of the East Coast [6]

Visakhapatnam
Goa of the East [6]

The City of Destiny [6]

Bihar

City/town Nickname

Muzaffarpur The Land of Leechi[7]

Bhagalpur Silk City[8][9]

Nalanda land of knowledge

Gaya The City of Enlightenment[10][11]

Patna The City of Leader[12]

Hajipur Bananas City[13]

Madhubani The City of Mithila & Madhubani Art[14]

Himachal Pradesh

City/town Nickname

Shimla Queen of hills

Choti kashi
Mandi Varanasi Of Hills
Cultural capital of Himachal

Solan Mushroom City of India

Dharamshala Mini Lahasa

Chhattisgarh

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City/town Nickname

Chhattisgarh Rice bowl of India

Korba Power hub of Chhattisgarh

Jagdalpur Tourism capital of Chhattisgarh

Bhilai Steel city of India

Kanker Gateway of bastar

Gujarat

City/town Nickname

India's first world heritage city

Ahmedabad Manchester of India[15]
Boston of India

Surat Diamond City of India

Banyan City[16]
Baroda (Vadodara) Cultural Capital of Gujarat (Sanskari Nagari)[17]
Power Hub of India[18]

Haryana

City/town Nickname

Karnal Royal city

Panipat City of weavers

Jharkhand

City/town Nickname

Jamshedpur Steel City of India[19]

Dhanbad The Coal Capital of India

Karnataka

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City/town Nickname

Silicon Valley of India[20]

Bengaluru (Bengaluru) Science City of India[21]
Garden City of India[22]

Coorg (Kodagu) Scotland of India[23]

Mangaluru (Mangalore) Rome of The East [24]

Ice Cream Capital of India[25]

Sandalwood City[26]
Mysore (Mysuru) Cultural Capital of Karnataka[27]
City of Palaces (†3)
Heritage City of Karnataka[28]

Shimoga (Sagara) (Udupi) Waterfalls Paradise of India)[29]

Channapatna (Channapatna) Town of Toys("Gombegala nagara")[30]

Sakleshpur (Sakleshpura) Poor Man's Ooty[31][32]

Davangere Land of Butter Dosa [33]

Chickmagalur Switzerland of India[34]

Coffee land of India[35]

Kerala

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City/town Nickname

Kochi (Cochin) Queen of Arabian Sea[36]

Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum) The Evergreen City of India

Kozhikode (Calicut) City of Spices.[37]

Kannur (Cannanore) City of Looms and Lores.[38]

City of letters (Aksharanagri)

Kottayam City of Murals
City of latex
City of lakes

Kollam (Quilon) Cashew Capital of the World[39]

Alappuzha (Alleppey) Venice of the East

Kasaragod Land of Seven Languages[40]

Harkwillia[41]

Palakkad Land of Palm trees[42]

Rice bowl of Kerala[43]

The Cultural capital of Kerala[44]

Thrissur Land of Poorams[45]
The land of Vadakkumnathan[46]
Gold capital of India[47]

Wayanad God’s own district [48]

Madhya Pradesh

City/town Nickname

Indore Mini Bombay

Ujjain City of Temples

Bhopal City of Lakes

Maharashtra

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City/town Nickname

Mumbai Finance capital of India

City of dreams

Nagpur Orange City

Pune Oxford of the East

Khamgaon Silver City

Yavatmal Cotton City

|> |Akola

Cotton city*

Odisha

City/town Nickname

The Temple City

Bhubaneswar Sports Capital of India
IT City of East India

Puri Holy Capital

Spiritual capital of Odisha

Sambalpur Cultural Capital of Odisha

Brahmapur Silk City of Odisha

Rourkela Industrial capital of odisha

Silver City
Dominant city of Ancient India
Cuttack Millenium City
Linguistic Dominant of East
Gateway of East India

Punjab

City/town Nickname

Patiala Royal City[49]

Ludhiana Manchester of Punjab

Abohar • California of Punjab

Rajasthan
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City/town Nickname

Jaipur Pink City[50]

Udaipur City of Lakes[51]

Venice of the East (†4)[51][52]

Jodhpur Blue City[53]

Tamil Nadu

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City/town Nickname

City of flyovers
Cultural Capital of India
Chennai (Madras) Banking capital of India
(Madarasapattinam)
Detroit of Asia[54]
Gateway of South India
Healthcare Capital of India[55]

Capital of Kongu Nadu or Chera Nadu (Modern Day) or West

Tamilnadu
Engineering City of India
Coimbatore (Kovai)
Education City of India
Hardware City of India
Manchester of South India[56][57]

Knit Wear Capital of India[58]

Textile City of India[59]
Tiruppur (Tiruppur) Dollar City of India[60]
Cotton City of India[61]
Baniyan City of India[62]
Knit City of India[63]

Salem Steel City[64]

Palani Spiritual Capital of Tamil Nadu or Kongu Nadu

Puducherry (Pondicherry) Paris of the East (†3)

Pearl City of India[65]

Thoothukudi Salt Capital of South India
Sea Gateway of Tamil Nadu

Tirunelveli City of paddy fields[66]

Oxford of Southindia

Yercaud Poor Man's Ooty[67][68]

Jewel of the South[69]

Sivakasi Kutty (Little) Japan

Crackers City of Tamil Nadu[70]

Ooty Queen of Hill Stations[71]

Kodaikanal Princess of Hill stations[72]

Uthukuli Butter city of Tamil Nadu

Ambur, Vaniyambadi Biriyani cities of Tamil Nadu

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Telangana

City/town Nickname

Hyderabad City of Pearls[73]

Uttar Pradesh

City/town Nickname

Lucknow City of Nawabs[74]

City Nickname

Manchester of the East[75]

Kanpur
Leather City of the World[76]
Crossroad of National Highways

Sangam City[77]
Allahabad (Prayag) City of Prime Ministers[78]
Abode of God[78] (भगवान का घर)
King of Pilgrims(तीथ का राजा)

Ballia Baghi Ballia [79]

Varanasi, India The City of Ghats

The City of Shiva

West Bengal

City/town Nickname

City of Joy[80]
City of Palaces(†3)
Calcutta (Kolkata)
City of Castles
Black City

Siliguri Gateway of Northeast India[81]

Gateway to the Dooars[82]

Asansol City Of Brotherhood

Darjeeling Queen of the Hills[83]

Kharagpur The Mini India

Anchors
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