1. Since Kozhikode and Ghaziabad were municipal corporations, and not classified as cities/urban agglomerations in the 2001 Census, their 2001 population as municipal corporations were used to compute the growth rates. 2. The 2011 population figure of Kozhikode was inflated due to a revision of the census definition of urban agglomerations, so it is not comparable with the population of the other cities.