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Gurgaon is an affluent and modern area to live in with high costing apartments in particular and are two cities living within a bigger conurbation - Old Gurgaon and New Gurgaon. The area to the east of NH 8 is called New Gurgaon as it has developed more recently. The area to the west of NH 8 is often called Old Gurgaon as it was developed much earlier. New Gurgaon being built later, has more modern architecture. However, most of the basic amenities like the Bus stand, Railway station and Civil hospital lie in Old Gurgaon. Some of the best sectors and colonies still lie in Old Gurgaon despite being in existence before New Gurgaon.
Gurgaon has the third highest [[List of Indian states by GDP|per capita income in India]] after [[Chandigarh]] and [[Mumbai]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Tejeesh N. S. Behl |url=http://businesstoday.intoday.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11655&issueid=19§ionid=22 |title=Business Today article on best cities to live work and play |publisher=Business Today |date=2009-06-09 |accessdate=2010-09-01}}</ref> Gurgaon is also the only Indian city to have successfully distributed electricity connections to all its households.<ref name="BBC">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7968138.stm |title=India boom threatened by slowdown |publisher=BBC News |date=2009-03-27 |accessdate=2012-12-22}}</ref> Over the past 25 years the city has undergone rapid development and construction.<ref name="BBC" /> According to the 2011 census, Gurgaon’s population rose to
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