Hyderabad is the capital and biggest city of the Indian province of Telangana and the by right capital of Andhra Pradesh.[A] It involves 625 square kilometers (241 sq mi) on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River, in the northern piece of South India. With a normal height of 542 meters (1,778 ft), a lot of Hyderabad is arranged on sloping landscape around counterfeit lakes, including the Hussain Sagar lake, originating before the city's establishing, in the north of the downtown area. As indicated by the 2011 Census of India, Hyderabad is the fourth-most crowded city in India with a populace of 6.9 million inhabitants inside as far as possible, and has a populace of 9.7 million occupants in the metropolitan district, making it the 6th most crowded metropolitan zone in India. With a yield of US$74 billion, Hyderabad has the fifth-biggest metropolitan economy in India.

Until the nineteenth century Hyderabad was known for the pearl business and was nicknamed the "City of Pearls", and was the lone Golconda Diamonds exchanging focus the world. Large numbers of the city's chronicled and conventional bazaars stay open. Hyderabad's focal area between the Deccan Plateau and the Western Ghats, and industrialisation all through the twentieth century pulled in significant Indian examination, fabricating, instructive and monetary organizations. Since the 1990s, the city has arisen as an Indian center of drugs and biotechnology. The development of exceptional financial zones and HITEC City devoted to data innovation has urged driving multinationals to set up tasks in Hyderabad.