Home to the Tamil film industry, Chennai is also known as a major film production centre. Chennai is nicknamed "The Detroit of India", with more than one-third of India's automobile industry being based in the city. The Chennai Metropolitan Area is one of the largest municipal economies of India.
In October 2017, Chennai was added to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) list for its rich musical tradition. Chennai was also named the ninth-best cosmopolitan city in the world by Lonely Planet. National Geographic mentioned Chennai as the only South Asian city to feature in its 2015 "Top 10 food cities" list. In 2015 Chennai was named the "hottest" city (city worth visiting and worth living in for long term) by the BBC, citing the mixture of both modern and traditional values. Chennai is ranked as a beta-level city in the Global Cities Index, and was ranked the best city in India by India Today in the 2014 annual Indian city survey. Tourism-guide publisher Lonely Planet named Chennai as one of the top ten cities in the world to visit in 2015. Ĭhennai had the third-largest expatriate population in India, at 35,000 in 2009, 82,790 in 2011 and estimated at over 100,000 by 2016. Chennai has the fifth-largest urban economy of India.
As such, it is termed "India's health capital". Chennai attracts 45 percent of health tourists visiting India, and 30 to 40 percent of domestic health tourists. The Quality of Living Survey rated Chennai as the safest city in India. It was ranked the 43rd-most visited city in the world for the year 2015. The traditional and de facto gateway of South India, Chennai is among the most-visited Indian cities by foreign tourists. The city together with the adjoining regions constitutes the Chennai Metropolitan Area, which is the 36th-largest urban area by population in the world. According to the 2011 Indian census, it is the sixth-most populous city and fourth-most populous urban agglomeration in India. Located on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal, it is one of the largest cultural, economic and educational centres of south India.
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