{"id":1953,"date":"2015-11-08T07:19:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T07:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2024-11-22T13:25:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T07:55:06","slug":"5-facts-you-did-not-know-about-pune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/5-facts-you-did-not-know-about-pune","title":{"rendered":"5 Facts You Did Not Know About Pune"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><strong>Pune city has the immaculate record of fastest growing city economically<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/baner_from_baner_pashan_biodiversity_park.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1958\" src=\"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/baner_from_baner_pashan_biodiversity_park-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"baner_from_baner_pashan_biodiversity_park\" width=\"330\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a> Pune has seen a 300+ per cent growth in a span of 20 years. With the exponential rise of multi-millionaires in the city has been ranked 3rd fastest growing city in Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong> Pune is the only city to have seven universities in the entire country<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/10b14ar008pune.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1956\" src=\"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/10b14ar008pune-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"10b14ar008pune\" width=\"323\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a> No wonder Pune is called as The Oxford of The East! Apart from the universities, the city has approx. 400+ affiliated colleges. Pune also has about 55 engineering colleges affiliated to Pune University which itself is a record as for a city.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><strong> Pune is the Silicon Valley of India<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/pune-travel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1961\" src=\"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/pune-travel-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"pune-travel\" width=\"327\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a> This city of Deccan has the maximum number of software companies in India which is why it has been named as the \u201c<em>Silicon Valley of India\u201d. <\/em>There are a total of 212 software companies in Pune and the city is a home to renowned IT companies like Infosys, Wipro, TCS, Accenture etc.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><strong> Pune is a true cosmopolitan in all sense<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Language_Summit_Pune_2013_Group_photo_1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1959\" src=\"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Language_Summit_Pune_2013_Group_photo_1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Language_Summit_Pune_2013_Group_photo_1\" width=\"323\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a> Pune has a local population of only 38% i.e.; the Marathi population. Apart from this, the city population is taken over by North Indians, Telugites, Tamilians, Keralites, Europeans, Africans, and a mixture of all races. Therefore, Pune is a true cosmopolitan in all sense.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li><strong> Pune has Commercial and Defense airport working form the same terminal<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12Pune-airport1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1957\" src=\"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12Pune-airport1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"12Pune-airport\" width=\"327\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a> The only city in the entire world to have this kind of arrangement where the commercial and the defense airport have the same base. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/projects-in-lohegaon-pune\">Lohegaon<\/a> airport in Pune is one of the oldest air force base established by India Air Force team. \u00a0 Image Source: <span class=\"irc_ho\" dir=\"ltr\">campusdiaries.com,\u00a0realtypune.wordpress.com,\u00a0commons.wikimedia.org,\u00a0aera.gov.in<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pune city has the immaculate record of fastest growing city economically Pune has seen a 300+ per cent growth in a span of 20 years. With the exponential rise of multi-millionaires in the city has been ranked 3rd fastest growing city in Asia-Pacific region. Pune is the only city to have seven universities in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950257,"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/950257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}