Mettur
Mettur is an industrial and tourist town located in the Salem district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It is best known for the Mettur Dam which is the largest dam in south India.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Sar kumar a, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 50,000 residents
- Description: Village in Salem District, Tamil Nadu, India
- Also known as: “Mettūr”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mettur Thermal Power Station and Mettur Dam railway station.
Mettur Thermal Power Station
Power station
The Mettur Thermal Power Station is a coal-fired electric power station located in Salem district of Tamil Nadu. It is operated by Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited.
Mettur Dam railway station
Railway station
Mettur Dam railway station is an NSG–6 category Indian railway station in Salem railway division of Southern Railway zone. It is a railway station situated in Mettur, Salem district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Mettur Dam
Dam
Photo: Vvenka1, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Mettur Dam is one of the largest dams in India and also the largest in Tamil Nadu, located across the river Kaveri where it enters the plains. Built in 1934, it took nine years to complete.
Mettur
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Mettur, Salem district, Tamil Nadu, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
11.7902° or 11° 47′ 25″ northLongitude
77.7981° or 77° 47′ 53″ eastPopulation
50,000Elevation
205 metres (673 feet)United Nations Location Code
IN MTROpen location code
7J3VQQRX+36OpenStreetMap ID
node 245598417OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Vietnamese—“Mettur” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “মেতুর”
- Bishnupriya: “মেত্তুর”
- Bulgarian: “Метур”
- Cebuano: “Mettur”
- Chinese: “梅图尔”
- Chinese: “梅圖爾”
- Dutch: “Mettur”
- French: “Mettur”
- German: “Mettur”
- Gujarati: “મેટુર”
- Hindi: “मेट्टूर”
- Irish: “Mettur”
- Italian: “Mettur”
- Japanese: “メッタ―ル”
- Kannada: “ಮೆಟ್ಟೂರ್”
- Kannada: “ಮೇಟ್ಟೂರ್”
- Korean: “메투르”
- Malagasy: “Mettur”
- Malay: “Mettur”
- Malayalam: “മേതൂർ”
- Newari: “मेत्तुर”
- Portuguese: “Mettur”
- Russian: “Меттур”
- Spanish: “Mettur”
- Swedish: “Mettur”
- Tamil: “மேட்டூர்”
- Telugu: “మెట్టూర్”
- Urdu: “میتتور”
- Vietnamese: “Mettur”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mettur Bus Stand and CHINNA PARK.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mettur”. Photo: Sar kumar a, CC BY-SA 3.0.