It has earned the nickname "Turmeric City of India" for being the hub of the Asia's largest production and trade of this spice.

Sangli-Miraj-Kupwad municipal corporation (SMKMC) along with its Urban Agglomeration consisting satellite towns of Madhavnagar & Budhgaon is 93rd biggest in India.

The Sangli Metropolitan Region has developed itself as a modern city with broader roads, major railway junctions, malls & multiplexes, hotels, and excellent educational facilities.

Nearby towns like Ichalkaranji, Tasgaon, Ashta, Kavathe-Mahankal, Palus, Shirol and Jaysingpur are now emerging as Satellite cities to Sangli Metropolitan Area.

Sangli city station is directly connected to important cities like Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Udaipur, Bangalore, Surat, Vadodara, Mathura, Bikaner, Mangalore, Madgaon, Kanyakumari, Puducherry, Salem, Tirunelveli, Vellore, Madurai, Kota, Guntakal Cochi, Mysuru, Jhansi, Agra, Ajmer, Jodhpur, Ahmedabad, Gandhidham, Kolhapur, Belgavi, Dharwad, Hubali, Shri Ganganagar by direct trains.

A lot of auto rikshaw and private cars are available at Sangli station to reach nearby places like Kolhapur, Ichalkaranji, Tasgaon, Walwa, Ashta, Kirloskarwadi, Jaysingpur, etc.

Direct buses connect Pune, Mumbai, Solapur, Kolhapur, Pandharpur, Akkalkot, Parbhani, Nanded, Latur, Shegaon, Beed, Chatrapati Sambhaji Nagar, Ahmednagar, Panjim, Ratnagiri, Satara, Nashik, Hyderabad and many more cities in Maharashtra and Karnataka.

Other than MSRTC, many private travels like Balaji, Shreenath, VRL, NTN, Datta Krupa, Konduskar, Ashoka, M.B.Link, Vaibhav, Shreyash, Sanjay, Sai Krupa, Deepakraj, Saini, Sharma play A/C and non A/C sleeper coach and seater buses to Ahmedabad, Surat, Mumbai, Pune, Coimbatore, Salem, Chennai, Hyderabad, Panjim, Nagpur, Latur, Solapur, Bangalore and other cities.

The region, known as Kundal (now a tiny village 40 km away from Sangli city) in medieval India, was the capital of the Chalukya Empire in the 12th century AD.

The city's original name was Sahagalli—from the Marathi words Saha ("six") and Galli ("lanes") describing the early street plan—which was later shortened to Sangli.

[8] Food Bhadang also known as flavoured rice puff, from Sangli is world famous and are exported in US, UK, Canada, and Southeast Asia.