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 Korattur and Padi.
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 4 km east of Ambattur.
Padi
Suburb
Padi is a locality and neighbourhood in the city of Chennai, India. It was formerly named Thiruvaaipadi and was later shortened to Padi. Sundarar, came to Padi and sang songs in the Lord Shiva Temple. Padi is situated 5 km east of Ambattur.
Tiruverkadu
Suburb
Thiruverkadu is a western suburb of Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It comes under Thiruvallur district administration. It is famous for its Devi Karumariamman Temple. Tiruverkadu is situated 6 km southwest of Ambattur.
Ambattur
- Type: Suburb with 600,000 residents
- Description: neighborhood in Chennai
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: Poonamallee, Thiruvallur District, Tamil Nadu, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
13.1196° or 13° 7′ 11″ northLongitude
80.1503° or 80° 9′ 1″ eastPopulation
600,000Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)Open location code
7M524592+R4OpenStreetMap ID
node 262308390OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames 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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