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Business districts
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Central business district.
India
India has no single national central business district; each major metropolis developed its own CBD, and in several cities a colonial-era commercial core has since been supplemented — or substantially overtaken — by purpose-built financial districts on the periphery. As of mid-2025, India's total office stock stood at roughly 993 million square feet, making it the world's fourth-largest office market by area after the United States, China, and Japan; nationally, about 19 percent of this stock sits within traditional CBDs, with 45 percent in suburban business districts (SBDs) and 36 percent in peripheral business districts (PBDs), reflecting a broad structural shift of occupiers away from historic city centres toward newer corridors.