Introduction to Mumbai

Mumbai is the largest city in India, the largest seaport in India and the capital of Maharashtra. On Mumbai Island, which is 0/6 km away from the coast/Kloc-,there is a bridge connected with the causeway. Mumbai was occupied by Portugal in 1534 and handed over to Britain in 166 1 and became an important trade center. Mumbai is located on Salsater Island off the west coast of Maharashtra, facing the Arabian Sea. Mumbai port is a natural deep-water port, which bears more than half of India's passenger traffic and has a considerable cargo throughput. Mumbai is the commercial and entertainment capital of India, with important financial institutions, such as the Reserve Bank of India, the Mumbai Stock Exchange, the National Stock Exchange of India and the headquarters of many Indian companies. This city is the home base of Indian Hindi film and television industry (called Bollywood). Because of its huge business opportunities and relatively high living standards, Mumbai has attracted immigrants from all over India, making the city a hodgepodge of various social groups and cultures. Mumbai has many world cultural heritages such as chhatrapati shivaji Pier and Xiangdao Grottoes, and it is also a very rare city with a national park (Sanjay Gandhi National Park) within the city boundaries.