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Traffic of all kinds zips by in New Delhi - it's a miracle that so few accidents occur and everyone gets home safely each day! Unofficially, Delhi's population is well over 22 million people, including illegal migrants and unregistered slum-dwellers and temporary residents... Delhi, officially National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT), is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census. There are nearly 22.2 million residents in the greater National Capital Region urban area (which also includes the cities Noida, Greater Noida, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon and Faridabad along with other smaller nearby towns). The name Delhi is of