Bengaluru Urban

Bengaluru Urban district is the most densely populated of the thirty-one districts that comprise the Indian state of Karnataka. It is surrounded by the Bengaluru North (formerly known as, Bengaluru Rural district) on the east and north, the Bengaluru South (formerly known as, Ramanagara district) on the west and the Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu on the south. Bangalore Urban district came into being in 1986, with the partition of the erstwhile Bangalore district into Bangalore Urban and Bangalore Rural districts. Bangalore Urban has three taluks: Bengaluru City, Yelahanka and Anekal. It has seventeen hoblies, 872 villages, eleven rural habitations, five towns, one tier-three city and one tier-one city, administered by ninety-six Village Panchayats (Grama Panchayitis), ninety-seven Taluk Panchayats (Taluk Panchayitis), five Town Municipal Councils (Purasabhes), one City Municipal Council (Nagarasabhe) and five City Corporations (Mahanagara Palikes). The district had a population of 6,537,124 of which 88.11% is urban as of 2001.