Charkop is a locality in the suburb of Kandivali (West), North Mumbai, India.
Charkop's original name is 'Char K op'( चार खोप ) meaning a place of 4 huts or a small village with four houses in Marathi.
They are a very old community who had presence in mumbai even before the Britishers or Portuguese when naming this village at that time it only have 4 huts (झोपडी) but now this village is grown by population nearly 5000 people are living in the Charkop koliwada, also they have their own temples and own festivals and unique culture.
The locality is predominantly Hindu, but it also has small communities of Christians, Sikhs, Parsees, and Dalit Buddhists.
Muslims reside together in clusters, particularly in the cosmopolitan area of Ganesh Nagar, near Malad.