Chennai

Chennai district, formerly known as Madras district, is one of the 38 districts in the state of , . It is the smallest and the most densely populated district in the state.
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  • 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.

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is a fortress at the coastal city of , . 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.

Railway station
Photo: Bellus Delphina, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chennai Central, is a railway station in , India. It is one of the busiest railway stations in and a major rail hub in the country. It is classified as a NSG–1 category station and comes under the purview of the Chennai railway division of the Southern Railway zone of the Indian Railways.

Museum
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The Government Museum, Chennai, or the Madras Museum, is a of human history and culture located in the Government Museum Complex in the neighbourhood of in , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chennai and Central Chennai.

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, formerly Madras, is the capital of the state of . With a population of 8.6 million, 's urbanised area is the most populous in Southern India and the fourth most populous in India.

Photo: Aleksandr Zykov, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is the modern city centre of between Coovum and Adyar rivers. It is home to Santhome Church, Marina Beach and the Tamil film industry Kollywood.

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is the oldest part of the metropolis. 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 .

Chennai

Latitude
13.0889° or 13° 5′ 20″ north
Longitude
80.2648° or 80° 15′ 53″ east
Population
4,650,000
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
Abbreviation
“CHE”
Open location code
7M5237Q7+HW
Geo­Names ID
7646145
Wiki­data ID
Q15116
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Satellite Map

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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”
  • Kashmiri: “چیٚنائی ضِلہٕ”
  • 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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