Mumbai

Japanese: Mumbai
Mumbai

...The population of Greater Bombay as a metropolitan area is 9,926,000 (1991). The name comes from the Portuguese Bom Bahia (meaning "good bay"), but in 1995 it was renamed Mumbai (after the incarnation of the goddess Parvati, Mumba, worshipped by the native Koli fishermen). The city has a large bay that is now the port of Mumbai, a large coastal plain immediately below the Western Ghats that surrounds it, and is connected to the Deccan Plateau and northern India by a road that passes through the saddle behind the mountain range.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Mumbai" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…大都市域としての大ボンベイの人口992万6000(1991)。地名はポルトガル語のボン・バイア(〈良湾〉の意)に由来するが,1995年,より古いインド地名のムンバイーMumbai(原住民のコーリー漁民が崇拝していたパールバティー女神の化身ムンバにちなむ)に改称された。いまはムンバイー港となっている大きな湾入と,それを取り巻く西ガーツ山脈直下の海岸平野としては大きな平野をもち,さらに同山脈中の背後の鞍部を通る交通路によりデカン高原および北インドと結ばれている。…

※「Mumbai」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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