Karaikal
Karaikal district is one of the four districts of the Union Territory of Puducherry in India.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: district of India with 200,000 residents
- Description: district of Puducherry, India
- Also known as: “Karaikal district”, “Karaikal District”, “Karaikkal”, and “Kārikāl”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Karaikal railway station and Our Lady of Angels Church.
Karaikal railway station
Railway station
Karaikal railway station is an NSG–4 category Indian railway station in Tiruchirappalli railway division of Southern Railway zone. It is a railway terminus, situated in the city of Karaikal in the Union Territory of Puducherry, India.
Our Lady of Angels Church
Church
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Our Lady of Angels Church is the oldest church in Karaikal in the Union territory of Pondicherry, in Southern India. The current structure was built in Neo-Gothic architecture by the French Colonial Empire in 1822.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Karaikal and Thirunallar.
Karaikal
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Karaikal district, part of the discontiguous union territory of Pondicherry, is a small enclave within Tamil Nadu. Karaikal and the other parts of Pondicherry are former French colonial territories in India.
Thirunallar
Village
Thirunallar is a small town in southeastern India in the Karaikal District of the Union Territory of Puducherry, near the town of Karaikal. The village is home to the Dharbaranyesvarar temple, dedicated to Shiva, which contains within it a shrine of Shani. Thirunallar is situated 4½ km west of Karaikal.
Neravy
Village
Neravy, or Neravi, is a town and commune in the Karaikal District of Puducherry, India. The village lies 145 km south of Puducherry in the Puducherry district, and is located between Karaikal and Nagapattinam. Neravy is situated 3½ km south of Karaikal.
Karaikal
- Location: Puducherry, India, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Karaikal” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “منطقة كاريكال”
- Asturian: “distritu de Karaikal”
- Asturian: “Karaikal (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Karaikal”
- Bengali: “কারাইকল জেলা”
- Bhojpuri: “कराईकल जिला”
- Cebuano: “Kāraikāl”
- Chinese: “Karaikal”
- Chinese: “卡來卡縣”
- Chinese: “卡来卡县”
- Chinese: “开利开尔县”
- Dutch: “Karaikal”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاريكال”
- French: “district de Karaikal”
- French: “District de Karikal”
- German: “Karaikal”
- Gujarati: “કરાઈકલ જિલ્લો”
- Hebrew: “קראיקל”
- Hindi: “कराईकल जिला”
- Hindi: “कारईकाल ज़िला”
- Italian: “distretto di Karaikal”
- Italian: “Distretto di Karaikal”
- Japanese: “カーライッカール (地区)”
- Malayalam: “കാരക്കല് ജില്ല”
- Marathi: “करैकल जिल्हा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Karaikal”
- Northern Frisian: “Distrikt Karaikal”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karaikal”
- Norwegian: “Karaikal”
- Panjabi: “ਜਿਲ਼੍ਹਾ ਕਰਾਈਕਲ”
- Persian: “بخش کارایکال”
- Persian: “بخش کارایکل”
- Russian: “Карайкал”
- Sanskrit: “कारैकलमण्डलम्”
- Santali: “ᱠᱟᱨᱟᱭᱠᱟᱞ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Karaikal”
- Spanish: “Karaikal”
- Swedish: “Karaikal”
- Swedish: “Karikal”
- Tamil: “காரைக்கால் மாவட்டம்”
- Telugu: “కరైకల్ జిల్లా”
- Telugu: “కారైకాల్ జిల్లా”
- Urdu: “کارائکال ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Karaikal”
- “कराईकल जिला”
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