What is Navi Mumbai?
{{Use British English|date=March 2013}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Navi Mumbai | native_name = नवी मुंबई | native_name_lang = mr | other_name = New Bombay | settlement_type = Township | image_skyline = Nerul.jpg | image_alt = | image_caption = A view of [[Nerul]], Mumbai as seen from the CBD Belapur Road | nickname = | coordinates = {{coord|19.02|73.02|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = [[India]] | subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]] | subdivision_name1 = [[Maharashtra]] | subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]] | subdivision_name2 = [[Thane]] | subdivision_type3 = Metro | subdivision_name3 = [[Mumbai]] | established_title = <!-- Established --> | established_date = 1772 | founder = | named_for = New Bombay | blank1_name_sec1 = [[Vidhan Sabha]] constituency | blank1_info_sec1 = N BOM Mumbai(New Mumbai) | website = | footnotes = }} '''Navi Mumbai''' is a [[Planned city|planned]] [[satellite city]] of [[Mumbai]], on the west coast of [[Maharashtra]] in [[India]]. It was developed in 1972 as a new urban township of Mumbai, and is currently the largest planned city in the world. == History == Navi Mumbai, in the eastern [[harbour]] of Mumbai, is one of the world's largest planned townships. Since [[Partition of India|independence]],<ref>{{cite book |title=Master Plan in Outline by Modak and Mayer (no date given, probably publ.1947)}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Report of a Study Group on Greater Bombay, Govt. of Maharashtra,1961 (the Barve Group ).}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Gadgil Planning Committee. Report of the Committee appointed for Bombay-Panvel and Poona regions. Bombay: Government Press, 1965.}}</ref> there was a specific reason to build a new city on the mainland across the harbour: to lower the population of [[Mumbai]], an island city whose physical expansion had a limit.<