Kottaiyur
Kottaiyur is the Northern Neighborhood of Karaikudi city in Sivaganga district. Formerly, it was a Town panchayat until getting included into Karaikudi City Municipal Corporation.Photo: Chenthil, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kottaiyur railway station and Central Electro Chemical Research Institute.
Kottaiyur railway station
Railway stop
Kottaiyur railway station is an HG-2 category Indian railway station in Madurai railway division of Southern Railway zone. It serves Kottaiyur, located in northern suburb of Karaikudi Municipal Corporation in Sivaganga district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Central Electro Chemical Research Institute
University
Photo: Balajijagadesh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Central Electro Chemical Research Institute, founded on 25 July 1948 at Karaikudi in Tamil Nadu, CECRI came into existence in January 1953. It is the largest Electrochemical research institute in South Asia and is one of the largest research institutes for Electrochemistry in the world. Central Electro Chemical Research Institute is situated 2½ km south of Kottaiyur.
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
School building
The Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan is a system of central government schools in India. Governed by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. As of April 2025, it has a total of 1,257 schools in India, and three abroad, in Kathmandu, Moscow and Tehran.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kanadukathan and K.rayavaram.
Kanadukathan
Village
Kanadukathan is a Town Panchayat in the Karaikudi taluk of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Kanadukathan is situated 8 km north of Kottaiyur.
K.rayavaram
Village
K.Rayapuram is a village in the Arimalam revenue block of Pudukkottai district, Tamil Nadu, India. K.rayavaram is situated 9 km northeast of Kottaiyur.
Nedungudi
Village
Nedungudi is a village in the Arimalamrevenue block of Pudukkottai district, Tamil Nadu, India. Nedungudi is situated 9 km north of Kottaiyur.
Kottaiyur
- Type: Locality with 14,800 residents
- Description: Village in Sivaganga District, Tamil Nadu, India
- Category: human settlement
- Location: Karaikkudi, Sivaganga, Tamil Nadu, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Bishnupriya to Vietnamese—“Kottaiyur” goes by many names.
- Bishnupriya: “কোত্তাইয়ুর”
- Cebuano: “Kottaiyūr”
- Chinese: “Kottaiyur”
- Chinese: “科泰尤尔”
- Dutch: “Kottaiyur”
- Hindi: “कोट्टैयूर”
- Irish: “Kottaiyur”
- Italian: “Kottaiyur”
- Japanese: “コッタイユール”
- Japanese: “コッタユール”
- Malay: “Kottaiyur”
- Malayalam: “കോട്ടായ്യൂർ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kottaiyur”
- Newari: “कोत्तईयुर”
- Portuguese: “Kottaiyur”
- Spanish: “Kottaiyur”
- Swedish: “Kottaiyūr”
- Tamil: “கோட்டையூர், சிவகங்கை மாவட்டம்”
- Tamil: “கோட்டையூர்”
- Vietnamese: “Kottaiyur”
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