The largest city in Telangana is its capital, Hyderabad. It is the city in the state with the highest population. The city has a population of nearly four million. 6,731,790 people call Hyderabad home as of 2011.

Hyderabad City has an 82.96% higher literacy rate than the national average of 74.04%.

According to preliminary Census India figures, Hyderabad supplied a third of the state’s tax revenue in 2011 and produced revenues of 700,000,000 (US$8.8 billion) in that year.

The city’s economic patterns have changed as a result of the expansion of IT enterprises, biotech, insurance, and financial institutions, changing it from a major service hub to a more varied spectrum.

Hyderabad, also referred to as Cyberabad, is one of the principal information technology hubs in the globe (Cyber City). As of 2022, Hyderabad’s IT/ITES sector would employ 7,78,121 individuals across more than 1500 companies. In this region, the service sector still employs 90% of the workers.Tech Mahindra, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant, and Tata Consultancy Services are the main Indian businesses with development centres in the city.

As a result of the development of the township known as HITEC City, which has connected technology infrastructure, international corporations, particularly those with US headquarters, began functioning in Hyderabad. Deloitte, Franklin Templeton Investments, GE Capital, Accenture, HSBC, Bank of America, ABN AMRO, S&P Global, Ernst & Young, KPMG, Capgemini, and Genpact are a few companies that have offices in the city that provide financial services.

In addition to Google and Amazon, Hyderabad is home to offices for IBM, Motorola, Samsung, Agilent, ADP, Oracle Corporation, Yahoo!, Dell, Texas Instruments, Thought works, CA Technologies, and Microsoft. Microsoft has the largest research and development campus outside of the US.