Chennai
Chennai district, formerly known as Madras district, is one of the 38 districts in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It is the smallest and the most densely populated district in the state.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: district of India with 4,650,000 residents
- Description: district of Tamil Nadu, India
- Also known as: “Chennai district” and “Chennai District”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort St. George and Chennai Central railway station.
Fort St. George
Photo: L.vivian.richard, Public domain.
Fort St. George is a fortress at the coastal city of Chennai, India. Founded in 1639, it was the first English fortress in India. The construction of the fort provided the impetus for further settlements and trading activity, in what was originally an uninhabited land.
Chennai Central railway station
Railway station
Photo: Bellus Delphina, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chennai Central, is an NSG–1 category Indian railway station in the Chennai railway division of Southern Railway zone. It is the main railway terminus in the city of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Chennai Government Museum
Museum
Photo: L.vivian.richard, Public domain.
The Government Museum, Chennai, or the Madras Museum, is a museum of human history and culture located in the Government Museum Complex in the neighbourhood of Egmore in Chennai, India.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chennai and Central Chennai.
Chennai
Chennai, formerly Madras, is the capital of the Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. With a population of 8.6 million, Chennai's urbanised area is the most populous in Southern India and the fourth most populous in India.
Central Chennai
Photo: Aleksandr Zykov, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Central Chennai is the modern city centre of Chennai between Coovum and Adyar rivers. It is home to Santhome Church, Marina Beach and the Tamil film industry Kollywood.
North Chennai
Photo: Bellus Delphina, CC BY-SA 3.0.
North Chennai is the oldest part of the metropolis. North Chennai is one of the best preserved Art Deco architectural areas in India. It is also Chennai's oldest central business district though it has long since given way to Central Chennai.
Chennai
- Location: Tamil Nadu, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Chennai” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ضاحية تشيناي”
- Armenian: “Չեննաի”
- Asturian: “Chennai (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Chennai”
- Asturian: “distritu de Chennai”
- Basque: “Chennai barrutia”
- Belarusian: “акруга Чэнаі”
- Belarusian: “Чэнаі (акруга)”
- Belarusian: “Чэнаі”
- Bengali: “চেন্নাই জেলা”
- Bhojpuri: “चेन्नई जिला”
- Catalan: “districte de Chennai”
- Catalan: “Districte de Chennai”
- Cebuano: “Chennai (distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Chennai”
- Chinese: “欽奈”
- Chinese: “金奈县”
- Chinese: “金奈縣”
- Dutch: “Chennai district”
- Finnish: “Chennain piirikunta”
- French: “District de Chennai”
- French: “district de Madras”
- French: “District de Madras”
- German: “Chennai”
- Gujarati: “ચેન્નઈ જિલ્લો”
- Hindi: “चेन्नई जिला”
- Italian: “distretto di Chennai”
- Italian: “Distretto di Chennai”
- Japanese: “チェンナイ県”
- Kannada: “ಚೆನ್ನೈ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ”
- Korean: “첸나이 구”
- Korean: “첸나이구”
- Malayalam: “ചെന്നൈ ജില്ല”
- Marathi: “चेन्नई जिल्हा”
- Nepali: “चेन्नई जिल्ला”
- Newari: “चेन्नई जिल्ला”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chennai”
- Norwegian: “Chennai”
- Oriya: “ଚେନ୍ନାଇ ଜିଲ୍ଲା”
- Persian: “بخش چنای”
- Russian: “Ченнаи”
- Sanskrit: “चेन्नैमण्डलम्”
- Santali: “ᱪᱮᱱᱱᱟᱭ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
- Slovenian: “Chennai”
- Spanish: “Chennai”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Chennai”
- Swedish: “Chennai (distrikt i Indien)”
- Swedish: “Chennai”
- Tamil: “சென்னை மாவட்டம்”
- Telugu: “చెన్నై జిల్లా”
- Urdu: “چینائی ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Chennai”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع چینائ”
- “चेन्नई जिला”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Nikhil Palace and Nehru Stadium, Chennai.
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