Tamil Nadu
Kanniyakumari
Vilavancode

Kuzhithurai

Kuzhithurai is a town and municipality in Kanyakumari District in the state of . It is the administrative headquarters of the Vilavancode Taluk.
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  • Type: Town with 21,300 residents
  • Description: town in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Also known as: “Kuzhithura”, “Kuzhithurai, Kanyakumari”, and “Kuzhittura”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kuzhithura railway station and Marthandam CSI Church.

Railway station
Photo: Edwardjeni, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kuzhithurai railway station is the second-biggest station in Kanyakumari district. For train transportation the is the main hub for Kalkulam and Vilavancode talukas.

Church
Photo: Jupitus Smart, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is one of the largest district churches in the Kanyakumari diocese in India. It has the privilege of being the center of various services connected with the Diocese, such as schools, colleges, hospitals, an embroidery industry, a book depot, a press and also a shopping complex.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Marthandam and Kappukad.

Town
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a major trade centre in Kuzhithurai municipality across State Highway in the Kanyakumari district of , India. comes under the kuzhithurai Municipality, also known as Thoduvetty, it was a portion of Kanyakumari district which was added to the state of on 1 November 1956.

Village
Kappukad/Kappukadu is an ancient village in southern in Kanyakumari District in Southern . The village is also known as Kappiyankadu due to the belief that the ancient Tamil poet Tholkappiyar, the disciple of Agasthya, was born 1 May in the Tamil month of Chitirai on a pournami day in 865 BC.

Village
is located in Kanyakumari District of . The area of lies in the taluk of Vilavancode and has a Sub Post Office. is situated 3 km west of Kuzhithurai.

Kuzhithurai

Latitude
8.31553° or 8° 18′ 56″ north
Longitude
77.20688° or 77° 12′ 25″ east
Population
21,300
Elevation
57 metres (187 feet)
Open location code
6JWV8684+6Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 353031719
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1265387
Wiki­data ID
Q2230820
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In Other Languages

From Bishnupriya to Vietnamese—“Kuzhithurai” goes by many names.
  • Bishnupriya: “কুজহিথুরাই”
  • Bulgarian: “Кужитхураи”
  • Cebuano: “Kuzhithurai”
  • Chinese: “库齐图赖”
  • Chinese: “庫齊圖賴”
  • Dutch: “Kuzhithurai”
  • French: “Kuzhithurai”
  • Hindi: “कुड़ितुरई, कन्याकुमारी”
  • Italian: “Kuzhithurai”
  • Japanese: “குழித்துறை”
  • Japanese: “クリットゥライ”
  • Malagasy: “Kuzhithurai”
  • Malay: “Kuzhithurai”
  • Newari: “कुझिथुराई”
  • Spanish: “Kuzhithurai”
  • Swedish: “Kuzhithurai”
  • Tamil: “குழித்துறை”
  • Vietnamese: “Kuzhithurai”

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