Ambattur
Ambattur is a northwestern part of Chennai, India. It is located in Ambattur taluk of the Chennai District, surrounded by Avadi, Anna Nagar, Korattur, Padi, Mogappair, Kallikuppam, Surapet, Ayappakkam, Athipet and Thiruverkadu.Photo: பரிதிமதி, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ambattur Lake and Pattaravakkam railway station.
Ambattur Lake
Reservoir
Photo: பரிதிமதி, Public domain.
Ambattur Aeri, or Ambattur Lake, is a rain-fed reservoir which reaches top levels during the monsoon seasons. In November 2008, incessant monsoon rain filled the lake and encroachments on the north and south banks of the lake were demolished.
Pattaravakkam railway station
Railway station
Photo: Rasnaboy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pattaravakkam railway station is one of the railway stations of the Chennai Central–Arakkonam section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. Located about 14 km from Chennai Central railway station, the station serves the neighbourhoods of Pattaravakkam and Ambattur Industrial Estate and other smaller suburbs such as Karukku, Kallikuppam, and Menambedu.
Ambattur railway station
Railway station
Photo: Rasnaboy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ambattur railway station is one of the main railway stations of the Chennai Central–Arakkonam section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. It serves the neighbourhood of Ambattur, a suburb of Chennai located 17 km north-west of the city centre.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nerkundram and Maduravoyal.
Nerkundram
Suburb
Nerkundram or Nerkunram is a census town located in Chennai City, Chennai district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It falls under Maduravoyal constituency in Tiruvallur district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Nerkundram is situated 6 km southeast of Ambattur.
Maduravoyal
Town
Maduravoyal is a residential neighbourhood located in the west of Chennai, India. As of 2011, the town had a population of 86,195. Maduravoyal also has a name as "ettam kal", so it could be famous in British Period too, it is exactly 12.87 kilometres from Chennai Harbour, and Maduravoyal located 3 km from the west of Koyambedu area which is a major hub of activity in Chennai City. Maduravoyal is situated 7 km south of Ambattur.
Korattur
Suburb
Korattur is a neighbourhood situated in the western part of Chennai. It is a part of the Ambattur Zone of Chennai Corporation and located along the Chennai-Bangalore/Mumbai railroad about 12 km from the Chennai Central. Korattur is situated 3½ km east of Ambattur.
Ambattur
- Type: Town with 600,000 residents
- Description: suburb and former municipality in Chennai, India
- Categories: suburb, former municipality, and locality
- Location: Poonamallee, Thiruvallur District, Tamil Nadu, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
13.1187° or 13° 7′ 7″ northLongitude
80.154° or 80° 9′ 14″ eastPopulation
600,000Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)Open location code
7M524593+FHOpenStreetMap ID
node 262308390OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1278840Wikidata ID
Q456737
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Western Panjabi—“Ambattur” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ambathur”
- Bengali: “অম্বাত্তুর”
- Bhojpuri: “अम्बात्तुर”
- Bishnupriya: “আম্বাত্তুর”
- Cebuano: “Ambattūr”
- Chinese: “安巴杜尔”
- Chinese: “安巴杜爾”
- Dutch: “Ambattur”
- Esperanto: “Ambattur”
- French: “Ambattur”
- German: “Ambattur”
- Hindi: “अम्बत्तूर”
- Indonesian: “Ambattur”
- Italian: “Ambattur”
- Kannada: “ಅಂಬತ್ತೂರು”
- Kashmiri: “امبتور”
- Malagasy: “Ambattur”
- Malay: “Ambattur”
- Minangkabau: “Ambattur”
- Newari: “अम्बथुर”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ambathur”
- Norwegian: “Ambattur”
- Persian: “امباتور”
- Portuguese: “Ambattur”
- Pushto: “امباتور”
- Russian: “Амбаттур”
- Serbian: “Ambattur”
- Serbian: “Амбатур”
- Spanish: “Ambattur”
- Swedish: “Ambattūr”
- Tamil: “அம்பத்தூர்”
- Tatar: “Амбаттур”
- Urdu: “امبتور”
- Vietnamese: “Ambattur”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ambattur”
- Western Panjabi: “امباتر”
- “अम्बात्तुर”
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