Pamban
Pamban is a town in the Rameswaram taluk of Ramanathapuram district, Tamil Nadu. It is at the west edge of Pamban Island and is a popular fishing port.Photo: Maskaravivek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pamban Bridge.
Pamban Bridge
Photo: Bhamdham, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pamban Bridge was a railway bridge that connected the town of Rameswaram on Pamban Island with Mandapam in mainland India. Opened on 24 February 1914, it was India's first sea bridge, and was the longest sea bridge in India until the opening of the Bandra–Worli Sea Link in 2010.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mandapam.
Mandapam
Town
Mandapam is a panchayat town in Ramanathapuram district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The famed Pamban Railway bridge and Vehicular bridge lie to the East of this Panchayat Town. Mandapam is Tamil Nadu’s largest refugee camp for Sri Lankans in India. Mandapam is situated 7 km west of Pamban.
Pamban
- Type: Village with 37,800 residents
- Description: Village in Ramanathapuram District, Tamil Nadu, India
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Rameswaram, Ramanathapuram district, Tamil Nadu, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
9.28203° or 9° 16′ 55″ northLongitude
79.21268° or 79° 12′ 46″ eastPopulation
37,800Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)United Nations Location Code
IN PMBOpen location code
6JXX76J7+R3OpenStreetMap ID
node 4692144181OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Tamil—“Pamban” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Pāmban”
- Czech: “Pamban”
- Czech: “Pámban”
- Dutch: “Pamban”
- Estonian: “Pamban”
- Estonian: “Pāmban”
- Hindi: “पाम्बन”
- Irish: “Pamban”
- Malayalam: “പമ്പൻ”
- Malayalam: “പാമ്പൻ”
- Swedish: “Pāmban”
- Tamil: “பாம்பன்”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Pamban Jn railway station and Xavier Hospital.
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