Mumbainoun
/ˌmʌmˈbaɪ//ˌmʌmˈbaɪ/a large city on the west coast of India that is the capital of Maharashtra state. It used to be called Bombay.
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- About 5,000 tiffin wallahs work in Mumbai.
- Every day, people make and sell home-cooked food to workers all over Mumbai.
- Every morning, farmers bring flowers to the market from their farms near Mumbai.
- In 2009, Mumbai started making a monorail.
- In Mumbai he only sees buildings and streets.
- India is an exciting country and Mumbai is one of its biggest cities.
- It is about a very poor young man from Mumbai.
- It’s night in Mumbai, but not everyone is sleeping.
- Over 20 million people live in the Mumbai area.
- Sanjit lives in Mumbai now, but he comes from the south of India.
- Sometimes he wants to leave Mumbai and go back to his hometown.
- The streets are crowded because every year more and more people are coming to Mumbai to live.
- There are many call centers in Mumbai.