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Delhi (English: / Dɛli/ Hindi: ( Dɪl I ) Dillī Punjabi: ( Dɪl I ) Dillī Urdu: ( Dɛɦli ) Dêhlī)

Delhi is a city and union territory that serves as the capital of India. It has a population of over 16.8 million, making it one of the largest urban areas in the world. Delhi has a long history as a capital city, serving various empires and kingdoms over centuries. Today, Delhi has emerged as an important economic hub with the second highest GDP per capita in India and is home to many corporations and wealthy individuals. The political administration of Delhi resembles that of a state and it jointly administered by the federal and local governments.

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Delhi (English: / Dɛli/ Hindi: ( Dɪl I ) Dillī Punjabi: ( Dɪl I ) Dillī Urdu: ( Dɛɦli ) Dêhlī)

Delhi is a city and union territory that serves as the capital of India. It has a population of over 16.8 million, making it one of the largest urban areas in the world. Delhi has a long history as a capital city, serving various empires and kingdoms over centuries. Today, Delhi has emerged as an important economic hub with the second highest GDP per capita in India and is home to many corporations and wealthy individuals. The political administration of Delhi resembles that of a state and it jointly administered by the federal and local governments.

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Delhi 

(English: /ˈdɛli/; Hindi: [ˈdɪlːiː] Dillī; Punjabi: [ˈdɪlːiː] Dillī; Urdu: [ˈdɛɦliː] Dêhlī),[15] offic
ially known as the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union
territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India.[16][17] It is bordered by the state
of Haryana on three sides and by Uttar Pradesh to the east. The NCT covers an area of 1,484
square kilometres (573 sq mi).[5] According to the 2011 census, Delhi's city proper population
was over 11 million,[6] the second-highest in India after Mumbai,[18] while the whole NCT's
population was about 16.8 million.[7] Delhi's urban area is now considered to extend beyond the
NCT boundaries, and include the neighbouring satellite cities
of Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Gurgaon and Noida in an area called the National Capital
Region (NCR) and had an estimated 2016 population of over 26 million people, making it the
world's second-largest urban area according to the United Nations.[8] Recent estimates of
the metro economy of its urban area have ranked Delhi either the most or second-most
productive metro area of India.[11][19] Delhi is the second-wealthiest city in India
after Mumbai and is home to 18 billionaires and 23,000 millionaires.[20] Delhi ranks fifth among
the Indian states and union territories in human development index.[13] Delhi has the second-
highest GDP per capita in India.[10] Delhi is of great historical significance as an important
commercial, transport, and cultural hub, as well as the political centre of India.[21]

Delhi is one of the oldest cities in the world, and has been continuously inhabited since the 6th
century BCE.[22] Through most of its history, Delhi has served as a capital of various kingdoms
and empires, most notably the Pandavas, the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Empire. The city
has been captured, ransacked and rebuilt several times, particularly during the medieval period,
and modern Delhi is a cluster of a number of cities spread across the metropolitan region. For
many centuries Delhi has been a dominant trading and commercial centre in northern India, and
after 1990s it has emerged as an important node in the international corporate and financial
network.[23]

A union territory, the political administration of the NCT of Delhi today more closely resembles
that of a state of India, with its own legislature, high court and an executive council of ministers
headed by a Chief Minister. New Delhi is jointly administered by the federal government of
India and the local government of Delhi, and serves as the capital of the nation as well as the
NCT of Delhi. Delhi hosted the inaugural 1951 Asian Games, 1982 Asian Games, 1983 NAM
Summit, 2010 Men's Hockey World Cup, 2010 Commonwealth Games, 2012 BRICS
Summit and was one of the major host cities of the 2011 Cricket World Cup.

Delhi is also the centre of the National Capital Region (NCR), which is a unique 'interstate
regional planning' area created by the National Capital Region Planning Board Act of 1985.[24][25]

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