15 Facts About Bangalore: Silicon Valley of India


Bangalore is known as the "Silicon Valley of India".

Clockwise from top: UB City, Infosys, Glass house at Lal Bagh, Vidhana Soudha, Shiva statue, Bagmane Tech Park
  1. Bangalore, officially known as Bengaluru.
  2. Bangalore is the third largest city in India and is the center of India's fifth-largest metropolitan area.
  3. Bangalore is the nation's leading information technology (IT) exporter.
  4. Bangalore's elevation is the highest among the major large cities of India.
  5. Bengaluru city is amongst the top ten preferred entrepreneurial locations in the world.
  6. Mughals captured and sold the city to the Mysore Kingdom.
  7. Indian technological giants Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO),Infosys, and Wipro are headquartered in the city.
  8. Bangalore is a major economic and cultural hub and the second-fastest growing major metropolis in India.
  9.  With a gross domestic product (GDP) of US$83 billion, Bangalore is fourth among the top 15 cities contributing to India's overall GDP.
  10. An apocryphal or a fabricated story recounts that the 12th century Hoysala king Veera Ballala II, while on a hunting expedition, lost his way in the forest. Tired and hungry, he came across a poor old woman who served him boiled beans. The grateful king named the place "benda-kaal-uru" (literally, "town of boiled beans"), which eventually evolved into "Bengalūru".
  11. Bangalore was hit by a plague epidemic in 1898 that claimed nearly 3,500 lives.
  12. Bangalore generates about 3,000 tonnes of solid waste per day, of which about 1,139 tonnes are collected and sent to composting units such as the Karnataka Composting Development Corporation.
  13. Ιn 2012 Bangalore generated 2.1 million tonnes of Municipal Solid Waste (195.4 kg/cap/yr).
  14. Bengalūru's INR523 billion (US$8.6 billion) economy (2006–07 Net District Income) makes it one of the major economic centres in India, with the value of city's exports totalling INR432 billion (US$7.1 billion) in 2004–05.
  15. Forbes considers Bangalore one of "The Next Decade's Fastest-Growing Cities". With a per capita income of INR74709(US$1,200) in 2006–07, the city is the third largest hub for high-net-worth individuals and is home to over 10,000-dollar millionaires and about 60,000 super-rich people who have an investable surplus of INR45 million (US$738,000) and INR5 million (US$82,000) respectively.


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