Tenkasi district
Tenkasi district is one of the 38 districts of Tamil Nadu, India, separated from Tirunelveli district on 22 November 2019. The Government of Tamil Nadu announced its creation on 18 July 2019. The district headquarters is at Tenkasi.Photo: Jeya2lakshmi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: district of India with 1,410,000 residents
- Description: district in Tamil Nadu, India
- Neighbors: Pathanamthitta and Tirunelveli
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kasi Viswanathar Temple, Tenkasi and Tenkasi Junction railway station.
Kasi Viswanathar Temple, Tenkasi
Hindu temple
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Kasi Viswanathar Temple in Tenkasi, a city in Tenkasi district in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, is dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva. Constructed in the Tamil style of architecture, the temple is believed to have been built by Pandyan ruler Parakrama Pandyan during the 13th century, with later additions from Madurai Nayaks.
Tenkasi Junction railway station
Railway station
Tenkasi Junction railway station is an NSG–4 category Indian railway station in Madurai railway division of Southern Railway zone. It is a junction railway station serving the town of Tenkasi in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tenkasi and Courtallam.
Tenkasi
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Tenkasi is a Municipality and headquarters of the Tenkasi district in Indian state of Tamil Nadu.Tenkasi is the third largest city in Tenkasi district after Kadayanallur and Sankarankovil.
Courtallam
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Courtallam, natively spelt Kutrālam or Kuttālam, is a panchayat town situated at a mean elevation of 160 m in the foothills of the Western Ghats in Tenkasi district of Tamil Nadu, India. The Coutrallam Falls on the Chittar River is a major tourist attraction.
Aygudi
Village
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Aygudi, also spelled Aaikudi, is a panchayat town in Tenkasi district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. Aygudi is situated 6 km northeast of Tenkasi district.
Tenkasi district
- Location: Tamil Nadu, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Urdu—“Tenkasi district” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “তেনকাশী জেলা”
- Dutch: “Tenkasi district”
- French: “District de Tenkasi”
- German: “Tenkasi (Distrikt)”
- German: “Tenkasi”
- Gujarati: “તેન્કાસી જિલ્લો”
- Hindi: “तेन्कासी ज़िला”
- Japanese: “テンカシ県”
- Kashmiri: “تینکاسی ضِلہٕ”
- Malayalam: “തെങ്കാശി ജില്ല”
- Marathi: “तेनकाशी जिल्हा”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Districte de Tenkasi”
- Persian: “بخش تنکاسی”
- Russian: “Тенкаси”
- Santali: “ᱛᱮᱱᱠᱟᱥᱤ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
- Tamil: “தென்காசி மாவட்டம்”
- Tamil: “தென்காசி”
- Telugu: “తెన్కాశి జిల్లా”
- Urdu: “ضلع تینکاسی”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Ilanji and Kuthukalvalasai.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Tenkasi Jn and Nainaragaram.
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