{"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":"2026-05-04T16:29:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T10:59:51","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 Lohegaon 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":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086429,"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/1086429"}],"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}]}}