Tamil Nadu
Far Southern Tamil Nadu
Tirunelveli

Tirunelveli

Tirunelveli is a city in the state of in southern . The city is administrative headquarters of Tirunelveli District.
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  • Type: City with 100,000 residents
  • Description: city in Tamil Nadu, South India
  • Also known as: “Nellai”, “Thirunelveli”, “Tinnevelly”, and “Tinnevelly Junction”
  • Historically known as: “Tinnevelli”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tirunelveli Junction railway station and Palayamkottai Central Prison.

Railway station
Photo: Theni.M.Subramani, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an NSG–2 category Indian railway station in Madurai railway division of Southern Railway zone. It serves the city of Tirunelveli, located in of the Indian state of .

Prison
is located in , , . The prison was built during 1880 and was operating as a district jail until 1929.

College
Photo: Pon Malar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, also known as TVMC, is a public medical institution in , located in the city of Tirunelveli, , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Palayamkottai and Melapalayam.

Suburb
Photo: Kingstonberyl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a neighbourhood in Tirunelveli City, incorporated within the Tirunelveli City Municipal Corporation. It is situated on the east bank of the Thamirabarani river, with the exception of its downtown area, which is present on the west bank.

Suburb
is a neighborhood of Tirunelveli City in , situated on the east bank of the . The neighborhood's name comes from its location west of .

Town
Sankar Nagar or is a panchayat town in in the state of . It is located about 8 km north of Tirunelveli on the way to on highway NH 44.

Tirunelveli

Latitude
8.7284° or 8° 43′ 42″ north
Longitude
77.7113° or 77° 42′ 41″ east
Population
100,000
Elevation
49 metres (161 feet)
Open location code
6JWVPPH6+9G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245581857
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1254361
Wiki­data ID
Q213248
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Tirunelveli” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تيرونلفلي”
  • Arabic: “تيرونلفيلي”
  • Arabic: “تيرونيلفلي”
  • Asturian: “Tirunelveli”
  • Bengali: “তিরুনেলবেলি”
  • Bhojpuri: “तिरुनेलवेली”
  • Bishnupriya: “তিরুনেলবেলি”
  • Bulgarian: “Тирунелвели”
  • Catalan: “Nellai”
  • Catalan: “Tinnevelly”
  • Catalan: “Tirunelveli”
  • Cebuano: “Tirunelveli”
  • Chinese: “蒂魯內爾維利”
  • Chinese: “蒂鲁内尔维利”
  • Czech: “Tirunelveli”
  • Czech: “Tirunelvéli”
  • Danish: “Tirunelveli”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Tirunelveli”
  • Dutch: “Tirunelveli”
  • Esperanto: “Tirunelveli”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Tirunelveli”
  • Finnish: “Tirunelveli”
  • French: “Tirunelveli”
  • Georgian: “ტირუნელველი”
  • German: “Thirunelveli”
  • German: “Tinnevelli”
  • German: “Tinnevelly”
  • German: “Tirunelveli”
  • German: “Tirunelvēli”
  • Greek: “Τρουνέλβελι”
  • Gujarati: “તિરુનેલવેલી”
  • Hebrew: “טירונלוולי”
  • Hindi: “तिरुनावेली”
  • Hindi: “तिरुनेलवेली”
  • Hindi: “तिरूनेलवेली”
  • Indonesian: “Tirunelveli”
  • Italian: “Nellai”
  • Italian: “Tirunelveli”
  • Japanese: “ティルネルヴェーリ”
  • Kannada: “ಟಿರುನೆಲ್ವೆಲಿ”
  • Kannada: “ತಿರುನೆಲ್ವೆಲಿ”
  • Kannada: “ತಿರುನೆಲ್ವೇಲಿ”
  • Kashmiri: “ترونلویلی”
  • Korean: “티루넬벨리”
  • Latvian: “Tirunelveli”
  • Lithuanian: “Tirunelvelis”
  • Malagasy: “Tirunelveli”
  • Malay: “Tirunelveli”
  • Malayalam: “Tirunelveli”
  • Malayalam: “തിരുനെൽവേലി”
  • Malayalam: “തിരുനെൽ‌വേലി”
  • Marathi: “तिरुनलवेली”
  • Marathi: “तिरुनवेली”
  • Marathi: “तिरुनेलवेली”
  • Nepali: “तिरुनावेली”
  • Newari: “तिरुनॆल्वेलि”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nellai”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Thirunelveli”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Thirunelvelli”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tinnevelli”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tinnevelly”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tinnevely”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tirunelveli municipality”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tirunelveli”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tirunelvely”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tiruvalluvar Flyover”
  • Norwegian: “Tirunelveli”
  • Pampanga: “Tirunelveli”
  • Persian: “تیرونلولی”
  • Polish: “Tirunelweli”
  • Portuguese: “Tirunelveli”
  • Pushto: “تيرونيلويلي”
  • Russian: “Тирунелвели”
  • Sanskrit: “तिरुनेल्वेली”
  • Santali: “ᱛᱤᱨᱩᱱᱮᱞᱵᱷᱮᱞᱤ”
  • Santali: “ᱱᱮᱞᱞᱚᱭ”
  • Santali: “ᱴᱤᱱᱱᱮᱵᱷᱮᱞᱞᱤ”
  • Serbian: “Tirunelveli”
  • Serbian: “Тирунелвели”
  • Serbian: “திருநெல்வேலி”
  • Sinhala: “තිරුනෙල්වේලි”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تیرونلولی”
  • Spanish: “Tirunelveli”
  • Swedish: “Tinnevelli”
  • Swedish: “Tinnevelly”
  • Swedish: “Tirunelveli”
  • Tamil: “திருநெல்வேலி”
  • Tamil: “தென்பாண்டி சீமை”
  • Tamil: “நான்குனேரி”
  • Tamil: “நெல்லை”
  • Telugu: “తిరునల్వేలి”
  • Telugu: “తిరునెల్వేలి”
  • Thai: “ทิรูเนลเวลิ”
  • Turkish: “Tirunelveli”
  • Ukrainian: “Тірунелвелі”
  • Urdu: “ترونلویلی”
  • Vietnamese: “Tirunelveli”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tirunelveli”
  • Western Panjabi: “تیرونلویلی”
  • “तिरुनेलवेली”

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