Science Fair Project Encyclopedia |Languages||Marathi, English,
Hindi and others| |Time zone||GMT +5:30| |Importance||Eighth
largest city in India| 73° 51’ E |Altitude||554 metres average|
20 to 38 °C Pune city, formerly Poona, Maharashtra state,
western India, at the junction of the Mula and Mutha rivers.
Called “Queen of the Deccan,” Pune is the cultural capital of
the Maratha peoples. According to the 2001 census provisional
results, it had - according to official statistics - a
population of 3.755 million in 2001. This figure includes the
people residing in the city of Pimpri-Chinchwad which has
historically been considered as a twin of Pune. The real
population of the combined metropolitan area should be between
4.5 to 5 million in 2004. Marathi is the language of the
majority of the people residing here and they call themselves
'Punekar'. 'kar' is a marathi language suffix used to denote a
person belonging to the preceding village or city name. This
being a metropolitan city with many English literate p