10 Interesting Facts About Indore

Facts About Indore

Facts About Indore

  1. Indore has been selected as one of the 100 Indian cities to be developed as a smart city under the Smart Cities Mission.
  2. Indore has been part of Swachh Survekshan since its inception and had ranked 25th in 2016.
  3. The Daly College, founded in 1870 by General Henry Daly, is one of the oldest co-educational boarding school in the world, which was established to educate the rulers of the Central Indian princely states of the ‘Marathas’ and Rajputs’.
  4. Indore is the largest consumer of Poha in the world.
  5. Indore is the most populous and the largest city in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
  6. The city is distributed over a land area of just 530 square kilometres, making Indore the most densely populated major city in the central province.
  7. The estimated population of Indore is 1.3 Million as of 2020.
  8. The Bada ganpati temple in Indore has the biggest Ganpati Idol of Asia.
  9. Indore has an average altitude of 553 meters above sea level, it has the highest elevation among major cities of Central India.
  10. India’s First Private Radio Broadcasting Channel, Radio Mirchi has started from Indore City.
Interesting Facts About Indore
Interesting Facts About Indore