The head-office city, with dense mixed storage in hospitals, pharma distribution, cold stores and server rooms across its suburbs.
- Andheri: Mixed factory units, stockists' godowns, laboratories and airport-side hotels beside the hospitals of the western suburbs.
- Malad: The suburb where Prithvi's head office sits, with distributors, godowns and data rooms close to the western railway.
- Goregaon: A long suburb of business parks, food firms, hospitals and server rooms between the railway line and the highway.
- Vikhroli: An older industrial district between the highway and the creek, with pharmaceutical, chemical and laboratory units on its estates.
- Mulund: The northern edge of the eastern suburbs, where pharmaceutical firms, hospitals and electronics stores sit beside the Thane creek.
- Powai: A lakeside district of research institutes, hospitals, laboratories and data rooms, better known for science than for heavy industry.
- Ghatkopar: An eastern suburb where the railway, the Eastern Express Highway and LBS Marg meet, with small units, stockists and hospitals close together.
- Chembur: The eastern shore towards Trombay, where process industry on the harbour side sits beside hospitals, laboratories and busy commercial streets.
- Kurla: A crowded crossroads of two railway lines and a long-distance terminus, with markets, depots and compact factories along LBS Marg.
- Bandra-Kurla: A planned business district of towers, hospitals, laboratories and server rooms between Bandra and Kurla, with little manufacturing.
- Borivali: The last large suburb on the western line, beside the national park, with markets, hospitals and godowns serving a large residential population.
- Kandivali: A suburb split by the railway into crowded western markets and an eastern side of highway units, townships and the Poisar river.
- Dahisar: Mumbai's northern gateway on the Western Express Highway, with transport firms, godowns and housing districts either side of the railway.
- Dadar-Parel: The middle of the island city, with early-morning markets at Dadar and the hospital district and rebuilt mill lands of Parel.
- Worli: A seafront suburb where the sea link begins, with sea-face towers, hospitals, hotels, a milk dairy and the old chawls and Koliwada behind.
- Wadala-Sewri: Mumbai's eastern harbour side, with Wadala's truck terminal, Sewri's dock-side yards and godowns and a large tuberculosis hospital.
- Byculla: An old working district of central Mumbai with a large government hospital campus, medical college, wholesale markets and godowns near the docks.
- Santacruz-Vile Parle: Neighbouring western suburbs around the domestic airport and the Juhu aerodrome, with hotels, courier firms, hospitals and busy markets.
A planned city across the creek whose Thane–Belapur industrial belt runs from Turbhe through Rabale and Mahape to Taloja.
- Turbhe: The western gateway of the Thane–Belapur belt, with factory units and chemical sheds beside the grain and produce markets.
- Rabale: Many small and mid-sized plots in the middle of the belt, which puts electronics, pharmaceutical and chemical units next to each other.
- Mahape: The point where the industrial estate meets the technology district, so data halls and laboratories stand beside electronics plants.
- Taloja: A large estate beyond Kharghar with chemical and pharmaceutical plants and long distances between buildings.
- Vashi: The first node most people meet, with the APMC wholesale markets, the Sector 17 commercial streets and hospitals close to the harbour line.
- Airoli: The northern end of Navi Mumbai beside the creek, with business parks, server rooms and the residential district of Digha.
- Koparkhairane: A large node in the middle of the industrial belt, with a MIDC estate of chemical, pharmaceutical and electronics units beside planned sectors.
- Pawane: A dense MIDC pocket of small pharmaceutical, chemical and engineering units, with Shirvane next door on the Nerul side.
- Ghansoli: A mixed node on the Thane–Belapur Road with corporate campuses, MIDC plots and housing sectors between Airoli and Koparkhairane.
- Nerul: A planned node on the harbour line with a large hospital, markets and housing, plus the waterfront district of Seawoods and the neighbourhood of Juinagar.
- Belapur: The central business district of Navi Mumbai, with offices, banks, hotels, hospitals and the older village of Belapur on the creek.
North-east of Mumbai, where Thane's older estates and Bhiwandi's warehouse sheds hold some of the busiest storage in the region.
- Wagle Estate: One of Thane's long-established industrial districts, on the western side near the highway, with pharmaceutical and electronics units.
- Dombivli MIDC: A process-industry estate on the Kalyan side with chemical, pharmaceutical intermediate, engineering and food units.
- Bhiwandi: The warehouse town of the Mumbai region, where logistics sheds hold textile, food and pharmaceutical goods for owners elsewhere.
- Thane West: The old heart of Thane city by the creek, with markets around the station, clinics at Naupada and Panchpakhadi and hospitals at Majiwada.
- Ghodbunder Road: The long arterial road from Majiwada to the Gujarat highway, lined with townships, hospitals and shopping centres, and godowns near its junctions.
- Kalyan: A rail and road junction town on the Ulhas creek, with an agricultural market, wholesale lanes, godowns and neighbourhoods at Mohone and Shahad.
- Ulhasnagar: A dense city of numbered camps on the Central line, known for garments and denim, furniture and a large electrical and electronics market.
- Ambernath: An industrial town with the Ambernath and Anand Nagar MIDC estates of chemical and pharmaceutical plants beside the railway.
- Badlapur: A Central line town on the Ulhas river with a MIDC estate and fast-growing townships, under a heavy monsoon.
- Anjurphata-Purna: The warehouse belt beyond Bhiwandi town, with parks at Anjurphata, Purna, Kharbao, Vadape and Padgha.
- Mumbra-Diva: Two creek-side Central line towns, with dense markets at Mumbra, a junction at Diva and godowns and truck terminals at Shil Phata.
The southern gateway of the Mumbai region, where harbour roads, the Pune expressway and the Goa highway all begin.
- Kalamboli: A trucking junction near Panvel where the Sion road, the old Pune highway and the expressway meet, with a steel market and many godowns.
- Kharghar: A planned township between Belapur and Panvel with a cancer research centre, hospitals and large housing complexes, plus Kamothe and Khanda Colony.
- Rasayani-Patalganga: Two neighbouring MIDC areas in Raigad on the old Pune highway, forming a chemical and process-industry belt.
- Khopoli: An industrial town at the foot of the Bor Ghat, with metal and chemical works, highway warehouses and hotels near Khalapur.
- Uran-JNPT: A coastal peninsula across the harbour where the container port, freight stations and logistics nodes at Dronagiri and Jasai handle goods for a vessel or a truck.
- Ulwe: A newer CIDCO node on the harbour side, with housing, clinics and growing commercial premises, plus the nearby settlements of Kon and Karanjade.
- Roha-Pen: Two Konkan towns in Raigad, with the chemical MIDC at Roha, Pen's idol workshops and godowns, and a heavy monsoon on both.
An inland city whose industry is spread in a ring, from automotive plants and electronics to pharma, food and IT parks.
- Pimpri-Chinchwad: An industrial township on the north-western side of Pune that grew around engineering and automotive manufacturing.
- Chakan: A district on the Nashik road known for automotive plants, electronics and warehousing.
- Ranjangaon: A planned estate on the Ahmednagar road with wide roads, large plots and plants making consumer goods, electronics and packaged food.
- Hinjewadi: Pune's technology district around a large planned IT park, with server rooms, electronics and laboratories.
- Talegaon: An estate on the Mumbai–Pune road with automotive, engineering, food and consumer-goods units.
A coastal belt north of Mumbai in which creek towns, farmland and process industry sit within a short drive of each other.
- Vasai: A creek town where the railway and the Gujarat highway run close, with godowns and food and pharmaceutical units.
- Tarapur: A large coastal estate planned around process industry, with chemical, pharmaceutical and textile plants.
- Boisar: The town beside Tarapur that serves as its supply base, with chemical, pharmaceutical and logistics firms.
- Waliv: Industrial estates on the eastern side of Vasai, with small engineering, plastics, food and pharmaceutical units at Waliv and Gokhivare.
- Virar: The long-standing terminus of the suburban Western line, with fish and produce markets, the fishing village of Arnala and godowns on the east side.
- Nalasopara: A dormitory suburb split by the railway into a market side and an Achole Road side of small factories and godowns, beside the site of ancient Sopara.
- Sativali: An industrial area among low hills on the eastern side of Vasai, with Naigaon East's small units and godowns across the railway.
- Palghar: The district headquarters on the Western line, with markets and hospitals for a rural district and the coastal villages of Mahim and Kelva.
- Dahanu: The northernmost coastal town of the district, with chikoo orchards, fishing, beaches and highway godowns under an environmental authority that restricts heavy industry.
A Godavari plateau city of vineyards and onion markets, with engineering estates at Ambad and Satpur and newer plants at Sinnar.
Also known as Aurangabad, the Marathwada centre of Waluj, Chikalthana and Shendra, with automotive, drinks and pharmaceutical plants and tourist hotels.
A central crossroads city of orange trade, large hospitals and the Hingna, Butibori and MIHAN sites, under some of the hottest summers in India.
A Panchganga valley city of foundries, a cooperative dairy, sugar and jaggery, with estates at Shiroli, Gokul Shirgaon and Kagal under a heavy monsoon.
A Krishna river district town on the Pune highway, with strawberry and dairy cold rooms, the Shirwal estate and the sugar and hospital centre of Karad.
A hot, dry textile city of chaddars and towels, with Akkalkot Road and Chincholi estates, pomegranate and onion trade and a very scanty monsoon.
A Konkan pair of a mango and fishing port and the Lote Parshuram chemical estate, both in salty, very humid air and a heavy monsoon.