VITAL PORT
The ornate "Gateway to India," built in 1914 to commemorate the visit of Britain's George V, can still symbolize the vitality of India's great port, industrial, and financial hub, known until recently as Bombay. A city famous for both its wealth and poverty is also nexus for the world's largest film industry. "Bollywood" produces some 900 films yearly, specializing in action potboilers and torrid romances. What has become the world's fourth largest city was earlier a Portuguese and British colony.
ECONOMYCotton textiles, motor vehicles, machinery, clothing, chemicals, pharmaceutical products, electronics, refined petroleum, shipbuilding, fish processing, finance, film and entertainment.Text source:
National Geographic Atlas of the World, Eighth Edition, 2004
