District Profile · Maharashtra
Pune
- Pune
- Headquarters
- 94,29,408
- Population
- 15,643 km²
- Area
- Pune
- Region / Division
An IT-services and automobile manufacturing hub — home to major IT parks and plants for Tata Motors and Bajaj Auto — long nicknamed the 'Oxford of the East' for its concentration of colleges and universities. It was also the seat of the Peshwas, the Maratha empire's hereditary prime ministers.