Marakkanam
Marakkanam is a developing town and taluk in Villupuram district of Tamil Nadu. It is well connected to the state capital Chennai and the nearby union territory of Puducherry by the East Coast Road.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 22,000 residents
- Description: Village in Viluppuram District, Tamil Nadu, India
- Also known as: “Marakkānam”, “Markanum”, and “Merkānam”
Marakkanam
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Marakanam, Villupuram, Tamil Nadu, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
12.19593° or 12° 11′ 45″ northLongitude
79.94418° or 79° 56′ 39″ eastPopulation
22,000Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)Open location code
7J4X5WWV+9MOpenStreetMap ID
node 983442045OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1263564Wikidata ID
Q2554778
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In Other Languages
From Bishnupriya to Vietnamese—“Marakkanam” goes by many names.
- Bishnupriya: “মারাক্কানম”
- Bulgarian: “Мараканам”
- Cebuano: “Marakkanam”
- Chinese: “Marakkanam”
- Chinese: “默勒加訥姆”
- Chinese: “默勒加讷姆”
- Dutch: “Marakkanam”
- French: “Marakkanam”
- Hindi: “मरक्कानम”
- Hindi: “मारक्कानम”
- Irish: “Marakkanam”
- Italian: “Marakkanam”
- Malay: “Marakkanam”
- Malayalam: “മരക്കാനം”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Marakkanam”
- Newari: “मरक्कनम”
- Portuguese: “Marakkanam”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Marakkanam”
- Swedish: “Marakkanam”
- Tamil: “மரக்காணம்”
- Vietnamese: “Marakkanam”
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