Strategic inland capital anchoring northern India and the wider National Capital Region

Massive megacity population with immense labor, administrative, and political density

National services, infrastructure, real-estate, and policy-driven commercial hub

High strategic relevance through national command institutions, internal security architecture, and crisis governance

Seat of India's executive, legislature, diplomacy, and national state power

Major center of Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, and Bahá'í religious life and symbolism

One of the world's great imperial and national capitals, layered with Sultanate, Mughal, colonial, and modern Indian history