Bangalore (ind)

Bangalore

Bangalore ranks 392nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Tacoma, Washington, Akron, Ohio, and Mainz. Memorable people born in Bangalore include Shakuntala Devi, Rajinikanth, and Lindsay Anderson. Memorable people who died in Bangalore include C. V. Raman, S. R. Ranganathan, and M. Visvesvaraya. Bangalore has been the birth place of many actors, and film directors and the death place of many actors, and physicists. Bangalore is located in India.

Bengaluru, formerly called Bangalore, is the capital and largest city of the southern Indian state of Karnataka. As per the 2011 census, the city had a population of more than 8.4 million, making it the third most populous city in India and the most populous in South India. The Bengaluru metropolitan area had a population of around 10.5 million, making it the fourth most populous urban agglomeration in the country. It is located near the center of the Deccan Plateau, at a height of over 900 m (3,000 ft) above sea level. The city is known as India's "Garden City", due to its parks and greenery. Read more on Wikipedia