Five facts about Mumbai, India:
1. Bombay was renamed Mumbai in 1996.
2. The population is 18 million, projected to reach 28.5 million by 2020.
3. The main languages are Marathi, Hindi, and English.
4. The total area of the city is 440 sq. km or 170 sq. miles.
5. Climate - Summer 200 C - 390 C, Winter 120 C - 340 C. Mumbai has a truly tropical climate and temperatures remain fairly uniform throughout the year. You never need to pack woolens for Mumbai, not even in December. Mumbai is drowned every year under torrential Indian Ocean monsoon rains between June and September, usually beginning by 7th June every year.
http://www.mumbaihub.com/facts-and-figures.html
Dharavi - Dharavi is routinely called "the largest slum in Asia," a dubious attribution sometimes conflated into "the largest slum in the world." This is not true. Mexico City's Neza-Chalco-Itza barrio has four times as many people. In Asia, Karachi's Orangi Township has surpassed Dharavi. Even in Mumbai, where about half of the city's swelling 12 million population lives in what is euphemistically referred to as "informal" housing, other slum pockets rival Dharavi in size and squalor.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/05/dharavi-mumbai-slum/jacobson-text
Shantytown - A city district inhbited by people living in huts and shanties
http://www.audioenglish.net/dictionary/shantytown.htm
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