Porur
Porur is a neighbourhood of Chennai, India. It is situated in the Maduravoyal taluk of Chennai district in the southern part of the city. Since 2011, it has been a part of the Chennai Corporation and included in zone number 11.Photo: Ravichandar84, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Porur Lake and St. John’s Matriculation Higher Secondary School Alwarthirunagar.
Porur Lake
Photo: Ravichandar84, CC BY 3.0.
Porur Lake is located on the fringes of the Porur neighbourhood in south-west Chennai and is a primary water resource for the residents of Chennai. It is a temporary catchment area connected with Chembarambakkam Lake.
St. John’s Matriculation Higher Secondary School Alwarthirunagar
School
St John's educational trust is a registered Trust for educational and charitable purposes. Saint John's Educational Trust is funding and running seven educational institutions of which three are affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi and four are affiliated to the State Education Department, Government of Tamil Nadu. St. John’s Matriculation Higher Secondary School Alwarthirunagar is situated 3½ km northeast of Porur.
Chandra Mall
Supermarket
Virugambakkam is a residential neighbourhood of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is an important residential area of and is famous for its schools, market, residential colonies and residences of film artists. Chandra Mall is situated 4 km northeast of Porur.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mugalivakkam and Valasaravakkam.
Mugalivakkam
Village
Mugalivakkam is a neighbourhood of Chennai. It is located in Sriperumbudur taluk of Kanchipuram district, in Tamil Nadu. It is situated 16 km south-west of Chennai on the Mount-Poonamallee Road.
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.
Alapakkam
Suburb
Alapakkam is a neighbourhood in western part of Central Chennai. It belongs to Central Chennai Revenue Division of Chennai district. It is surrounded by Porur, Valasaravakkam and Maduravoyal.
Porur
- Type: Suburb with 46,700 residents
- Description: Village in Tiruvallur District, Tamil Nadu, India
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Poonamallee, Thiruvallur District, Tamil Nadu, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
13.03201° or 13° 1′ 55″ northLongitude
80.1583° or 80° 9′ 30″ eastPopulation
46,700Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)Open location code
7M5225J5+R8OpenStreetMap ID
node 243327790OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
1465622Wikidata ID
Q2229484
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Vietnamese—“Porur” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “পোরূর”
- Bishnupriya: “পোরুর”
- Bulgarian: “Порур”
- Cebuano: “Porur”
- Chinese: “Porur”
- Chinese: “波魯爾”
- Chinese: “波鲁尔”
- Dutch: “Porur”
- French: “Porur”
- Irish: “Porur”
- Italian: “Porur”
- Malagasy: “Porur”
- Malay: “Porur”
- Malayalam: “പോരൂർ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Porur”
- Spanish: “Porur”
- Swedish: “Porur”
- Tamil: “போரூர்”
- Vietnamese: “Porur”
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