Southern India
Tamil Nadu
Kanniyakumari

Agastheeswaram

Agastheeswaram is a panchayat town in Kanniyakumari district in the state of .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Vivekananda Rock Memorial and Kanniyakumari Terminus railway station.

Island
Photo: Sanchit, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a monument and popular tourist attraction in , 's southernmost tip. The memorial stands on one of the two rocks located about 500 meters off mainland of Vavathurai, .

Railway station
Photo: Pranchiyettan, CC BY-SA 2.5 in.
Kanniyakumari railway station, is an NSG–4 category Indian railway station in Thiruvananthapuram railway division of Southern Railway zone. It is a railway terminus of the Indian Railways serving the coastal town of in the state of .

Peak
The Marundhuvazh Malai, a part of Sanjeevi hills is also known as the Marundhu Vazhum Malai/Maruthwamalai, forms the part and the southernmost tip of the in Agasteeswaram taluk of Kanyakumari district of , India.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kanyakumari and Swamithoppe.

Photo: Hemanth kumar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
or Kanniyakumari is a town on the southernmost tip of the mainland of , in the state of . It is also known as Cape Comorin.

Photo: Vaikunda Raja, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town that lies southeast of the City of , the capital of the in the State of , at the extreme southern tip of .

Village
is a village located in Kanyakumari district in the Indian state of . the word origin from Malayalam/Tamil meaning Palace. So means not only a village but also a Palace because 18th & the beginning of the 19th century village was ruled by Travancore Maharajas and they have constructed Guest Houses for them.

Agastheeswaram

Latitude
8.1003° or 8° 6′ 1″ north
Longitude
77.5209° or 77° 31′ 15″ east
Population
552,000
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
Open location code
6JWV4G2C+49
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2603043299
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
12681776
Wiki­data ID
Q582327
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In Other Languages

From Bishnupriya to Vietnamese—“Agastheeswaram” goes by many names.
  • Bishnupriya: “আগষ্ঠেশ্বরম”
  • Chinese: “Agastheeswaram”
  • Chinese: “阿加斯泰埃斯瓦拉姆”
  • Dutch: “Agastheeswaram”
  • French: “Agastheeswaram”
  • Hindi: “अगस्तीश्वरम”
  • Irish: “Agastheeswaram”
  • Italian: “Agastheeswaram”
  • Malay: “Agastheeswaram”
  • Malayalam: “അഗസ്തിസ്വരം”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Agastheeswaram”
  • Minangkabau: “Agastheeswaram”
  • Newari: “अगस्थीस्वरम”
  • Persian: “اگاستسوارام”
  • Portuguese: “Agastheeswaram”
  • Spanish: “Agastheeswaram”
  • Tamil: “அகத்தீஸ்வரம்”
  • Vietnamese: “Agastheeswaram”

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