Kottar
Kottar is a locality and a bazaar area of Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu state, in the southernmost part of Peninsular India. It is the original town around which the city of Nagercoil grew and was an ancient trade centre of both Pandyans and Cheras at various times.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Francis Xavier’s Cathedral and Nagercoil Junction railway station.
St. Francis Xavier’s Cathedral
Church
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St. Francis Xavier's Cathedral, Kottar, also known as St. Xavier Church, is a Roman Catholic Latin Rite shrine in Kottar, Nagercoil, in the Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu state, India.
Nagercoil Junction railway station
Railway station
Photo: Kkdrua, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nagercoil Junction railway station is an NSG–3 category Indian railway station in Thiruvananthapuram railway division of Southern Railway zone. It is a railway junction in Kanyakumari district in the state of Tamil Nadu.
Nagaraja Temple
Hindu temple
Nagaraja Temple is an early large temple found in the city of Nagercoil near the southern tip of Tamil Nadu, India. Its dating is uncertain but likely pre-12th-century.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nagercoil and Vadasery.
Nagercoil
Photo: Meenkulambu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nagercoil, natively spelt as Nāgarkovil, is a Municipal Corporation city and the administrative headquarters of Kanyakumari District in Tamil Nadu state, India.
Vadasery
Suburb
Photo: Meenkulambu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vadasery is an area/village of Nagercoil city in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, India. It is also famous for its Christopher bus stand, one of the two bus termini in Nagercoil is located here.
Suchindrum
Town
Photo: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Suchindram is a panchayat town in the Kanyakumari district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu with the Indian postal code 629704. It is an important pilgrim centre and the site of the famous Thanumalayan Temple. Suchindrum is situated 3½ km southeast of Kottar.
Kottar
- Type: Suburb
- Description: neighbourhood in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, India
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Agastheeswaram, Kanniyakumari, Tamil Nadu, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
8.17402° or 8° 10′ 27″ northLongitude
77.43932° or 77° 26′ 22″ eastElevation
24 metres (79 feet)Open location code
6JWV5CFQ+JPOpenStreetMap ID
node 360396403OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Tamil—“Kottar” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Kottar”
- Hindi: “कोट्टार”
- Irish: “Kottar”
- Tamil: “கோட்டாறு”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kottar”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.