5 Facts on Mumbai:
- Most populous city in India (14 million) 2nd most populous in the world
- Mumbai's bus services carried over 5.5 million passengers per day in 2008
- Mumbai is the birthplace of Indian cinema.
- India's financial and commercial capital of the country
- Mumbai's literacy rate is 85.6% (female: 82.7%, male: 90%)
5 Facts on Dharavi
- There is an increasingly large recycling industry, processing recyclable waste from other parts of Mumbai.
- Dharavi covers an area of 535 acres
- Cheap alternative where rents were as low as US$4 per month in 2006
- Dharavi has a population of between 600,000 and over 1 million people
- Dharavi is one of the largest slums in the World
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