Madurai
Southwestern Tamil Nadu is in Tamil Nadu, India. It consists of Dindigul, Madurai, Theni and Virudhunagar districts.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: district of India with 3,040,000 residents
- Description: district of Tamil Nadu, India
- Also known as: “Madura”, “Madurai district”, “Madurai District”, and “Mathurai”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tiruparankundram railway station and Samanar Hills.
Tiruparankundram railway station
Railway station
Tirupparankundram is an NSG–5 category Indian railway station in Madurai railway division of Southern Railway zone. It serves Thiruparankundram, located in Madurai district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Samanar Hills
Photo: எஸ்ஸார், CC BY-SA 3.0.
Samanar Hills, also known as Samanar Malai or Amanarmalai or Melmalai, is a rocky stretch of hills located near Vadivelkari village, 10 kilometres west of Madurai city, Tamil Nadu, India.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Madurai and Thiruparankundram.
Madurai
Photo: Vegpuff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Madurai, formerly Madura, is the third-largest city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It's on the banks of the river Vaigai and has been a major settlement for two millennia.
Thiruparankundram
Town
Photo: Wasifwasif, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Thiruparankundram, also spelled Tiruparangundram, is a neighbourhood in Madurai in Tamil Nadu, India. Located about 7 km from the city center, it is located on the southwest part of the city.
Tirumangalam
Town
Photo: Saba rathnam, CC BY 4.0.
Tirumangalam is a Town in the Madurai Metropolitan Area of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu also called as 'Thoongaa Nagarathin Thunai Nagaram'. Tirumangalam is situated 9 km southwest of Madurai.
Madurai
- Location: Tamil Nadu, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Madurai” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ضاحية مادوراي”
- Armenian: “Մադուրայ”
- Asturian: “distritu de Madurai”
- Asturian: “Madurai (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Madurai”
- Azerbaijani: “Maduray dairəsi”
- Basque: “Madurai barrutia”
- Bengali: “মাদুরাই জেলা”
- Bhojpuri: “मदुरै जिला”
- Catalan: “districte de Madurai”
- Catalan: “Districte de Madurai”
- Cebuano: “Madurai”
- Chinese: “Madurai”
- Chinese: “馬杜賴縣”
- Chinese: “马杜赖县”
- Dimli (individual language): “Maduray”
- Dutch: “Madurai”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مادوراى”
- Finnish: “Madurain piirikunta”
- French: “district de Madurai”
- French: “District de Madurai”
- German: “Madurai”
- Gujarati: “મદુરાઇ જિલ્લો”
- Hindi: “मदुरई जिला”
- Italian: “distretto di Madurai”
- Italian: “Distretto di Madurai”
- Japanese: “マドゥライ県”
- Kashmiri: “مَدورائی ضِلہٕ”
- Malayalam: “മദുര ജില്ല”
- Marathi: “मदुराई जिल्हा”
- Marathi: “मदुरै जिल्हा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Madurai”
- Nepali: “मदुरई जिल्ला”
- Nepali: “मदुरै जिल्ला”
- Newari: “मदुरै जिल्ला”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Madurai”
- Norwegian: “Madurai”
- Oriya: “ମଦୁରାଇ ଜିଲ୍ଲା”
- Panjabi: “ਮਦੁਰਈ ਜ਼ਿਲਾ”
- Panjabi: “ਮਦੁਰਈ ਜ਼ਿਲ੍ਹਾ”
- Persian: “بخش مدورائی”
- Polish: “Madurai”
- Russian: “Мадурай”
- Sanskrit: “मधुरैमण्डलम्”
- Santali: “ᱢᱚᱫᱩᱨᱟᱭᱤ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
- Santali: “ᱢᱟᱫᱩᱨᱟᱭ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
- Slovenian: “Madurai”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Madurai”
- Spanish: “Madurai”
- Swedish: “Madurai”
- Tamil: “மதுர ஜில்லா”
- Tamil: “மதுரை மாவட்டம்”
- Tamil: “மதுரை ஜில்லா”
- Telugu: “మథురై జిల్లా”
- Telugu: “మదురై జిల్లా”
- Turkish: “Madurai ilçesi”
- Urdu: “ضلع مدورئی”
- Urdu: “میڈورائی ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Madurai”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع مادورائ”
- “मदुरै जिला”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Tiruparankndrm and Kappalūr Railway Station.
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