Alandur
Alandur is a zone of Chennai corporation, and an urban node in Chennai district in Guindy division in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It is surrounded by Guindy in the north and east, Adambakkam in the south, Pazhavanthangal in the south-west and Parangimalai in the north-west.- Type: Town with 164,000 residents
- Description: suburb and former municipality in Chennai, India
- Also known as: “Alandhur” and “Alandoor”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Guindy National Park and Chennai International Airport.
Guindy National Park
Forest
Guindy National Park is a protected area, located in Chennai, India. Spread across 2.70 km2, it is one of the smallest National Parks in India and one of the few national parks situated inside a metropolitan area.
Chennai International Airport
Aerodrome
Chennai International Airport is an international airport serving the city of Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, India. It is located in Tirusulam in Chengalpattu district, in the Greater Chennai Metropolitan Area around 21 km southwest of the city centre. Chennai International Airport is situated 4 km west of Alandur.
St. Thomas Mount
Church
St. Thomas Mount is a small hillock in the Chennai district of Tamil Nadu, India, near the neighbourhood of Guindy and close to Chennai International Airport.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Velachery and Ramapuram.
Velachery
Suburb
Velachery is a neighbourhood of Chennai. It is located in the southern part of the Chennai city sharing borders with Guindy in the north, Taramani in the east, Perungudi in the south-east, Pallikaranai in the south, Madipakkam in south-west, Adambakkam in the west and north-west.
Ramapuram
Suburb
Ramapuram is a neighbourhood in the western part of Chennai, India. It is situated on the Mount-Poonamallee Road at a distance of 3 kilometres from Guindy. Ramapuram is situated 4 km northwest of Alandur.
Valasaravakkam
Suburb
Valasaravakkam is a neighbourhood in the Chennai district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and a residential suburb of the city of Chennai. It is located in the Maduravoyal Taluk at a distance of approximately 15 kilometres from the Kilometer Zero stone. Valasaravakkam is situated 5 km northwest of Alandur.
Alandur
- Categories: suburb, former municipality, and locality
- Location: Pallavaram, Chengalpattu, Northern Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
13.0025° or 13° 0′ 9″ north
Longitude
80.2017° or 80° 12′ 6″ east
Population
164,000
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
Open location code
7M522632+2M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Alandur from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Bengali to Vietnamese—“Alandur” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “আলান্দুর”
- Bhojpuri: “अलान्दुर”
- Bishnupriya: “আলান্দুর”
- Bulgarian: “Аландур”
- Cebuano: “Alandur”
- Chinese: “阿兰杜尔”
- Chinese: “阿蘭杜爾”
- Dutch: “Alandur”
- French: “Alandur”
- German: “Alandur”
- Irish: “Alandur”
- Italian: “Alandur”
- Maithili: “अलन्दूर”
- Malagasy: “Alandur”
- Malay: “Alandur”
- Minangkabau: “Alandur”
- Newari: “अलद्गपुर”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alandur”
- Norwegian: “Alandur”
- Persian: “الاندور”
- Portuguese: “Alandur”
- Russian: “Аландур”
- Spanish: “Alandur”
- Swedish: “Alandur”
- Tamil: “ஆலந்தூர்”
- Vietnamese: “Alandur”
- “अलान्दुर”
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