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Chennai

Chennai

Chennai, formerly Madras, is the capital of the state of . 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.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Central Chennai and North Chennai.

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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.

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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 .

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encompasses the southern neighbourhoods of Chennai in India. Located roughly to the south of the , these areas were incorporated into the Greater Chennai Corporation after the 1990s.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as West Chennai.

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is the suburban western part of Chennai.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Chennai Government Museum and Connemera Public Library.

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 Chennai, .

Library
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The Connemara Public Library at in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, is one of the four National Depository Libraries which receive a copy of all books, newspapers and periodicals published in India.

Stadium
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Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu Tennis Stadium, commonly known as SDAT Stadium, sometimes also called Tennis Stadium, is located in , Chennai, , India.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chetpet and Mylapore.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood in the city of Chennai It is served by the railway station in the Beach–Tambaram line of Chennai Suburban Railway.

Suburb
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, or Thirumayilai, is a neighbourhood in the central part of the city of Chennai, India. It is one of the oldest residential parts of the city.

Suburb
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is a business and residential neighbourhood in Central Chennai, , India. The neighbourhood is served by of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network.

Chennai

Latitude
13.06008° or 13° 3′ 36″ north
Longitude
80.24998° or 80° 14′ 60″ east
Population
4,680,000
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
IATA airport code
MAA
United Nations Location Code
IN MAA
Open location code
7M52366X+2X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3233393892
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1264527
Wiki­data ID
Q1352
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Chennai” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Chennai”
  • Afrikaans: “Madras”
  • Albanian: “Çenai”
  • Amharic: “ቸናይ”
  • Arabic: “تشيناي”
  • Aragonese: “Chennai”
  • Armenian: “Մադրաս”
  • Armenian: “Չեննայ”
  • Assamese: “চেন্নাই”
  • Asturian: “Chennai”
  • Asturian: “Madrás”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çennai”
  • Balinese: “Chénnai”
  • Bashkir: “Ченнаи”
  • Basque: “Chennai”
  • Basque: “Madras”
  • Batak Toba: “Chennai”
  • Belarusian: “Мадрас”
  • Belarusian: “Чэнаі”
  • Bengali: “চেন্নাই”
  • Bengali: “মাদ্রাজ”
  • Bhojpuri: “चेन्नई”
  • Bishnupriya: “চেন্নাই”
  • Bosnian: “Chennai”
  • Breton: “Chennai”
  • Bulgarian: “Мадрас”
  • Bulgarian: “Ченай”
  • Burmese: “ချန်နိုင်းမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Chennai”
  • Catalan: “Madràs”
  • Cebuano: “Chennai”
  • Central Bikol: “Chennai”
  • Central Kurdish: “چێنای”
  • Chechen: “Ченнаи”
  • Chinese: “Chennai”
  • Chinese: “欽奈”
  • Chinese: “清奈”
  • Chinese: “真奈”
  • Chinese: “金奈”
  • Chinese: “马德拉斯”
  • Cornish: “Chennai”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Çennai”
  • Croatian: “Chennai”
  • Croatian: “Madras” (historical)
  • Czech: “Čennaí”
  • Czech: “Madras”
  • Czech: “Madrás”
  • Danish: “Chennai”
  • Danish: “Madras”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Çenay”
  • Dotyali: “चेन्नई”
  • Dutch: “Chennai”
  • Dutch: “Madras” (historical)
  • Eastern Mari: “Ченнаи”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تشيناى”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉenajo”
  • Esperanto: “Madraso”
  • Estonian: “Chennai”
  • Extremaduran: “Chennai”
  • Extremaduran: “Madrás”
  • Faroese: “Chennai”
  • Faroese: “Madras”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Chennai”
  • Finnish: “Chennai”
  • French: “Chennai”
  • French: “Madras”
  • French: “Tchennaï”
  • Galician: “Chennai”
  • Gan Chinese: “清奈”
  • Georgian: “ჩენაი”
  • German: “Chennai”
  • German: “Madras”
  • Gilaki: “مدرس”
  • Goan Konkani: “ಚೆನ್ನೈ”
  • Goan Konkani: “ಮದ್ರಾಸ್”
  • Greek: “Τσεννάι”
  • Gujarati: “ચેન્નઈ”
  • Gujarati: “ચેન્નાઈ”
  • Gujarati: “મદ્રાસ”
  • Hausa: “Chennai”
  • Hebrew: “צ’נאי”
  • Hebrew: “צנאי”
  • Hindi: “चेन्नई”
  • Hindi: “मद्रास”
  • Hungarian: “Chennai”
  • Hungarian: “Csennai”
  • Hungarian: “Madrász”
  • Icelandic: “Chennai”
  • Ido: “Chennai”
  • Indonesian: “Chennai”
  • Interlingue: “Chennai”
  • Irish: “Chennai”
  • Italian: “Chennai”
  • Italian: “Madras”
  • Japanese: “インドの健康首都”
  • Japanese: “インド銀行業の首都”
  • Japanese: “チェンナイ”
  • Japanese: “マドラス”
  • Japanese: “南アジアのデトロイト”
  • Japanese: “南インドの玄関口”
  • Japanese: “孟打拉沙”
  • Japanese: “馬搭喇”
  • Japanese: “麻打拉薩”
  • Kalaallisut: “Chennai”
  • Kannada: “ಚೆನ್ನೈ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Shennai”
  • Kashmiri: “چِنَے”
  • Kashmiri: “مَدراس”
  • Kazakh: “Мадрас”
  • Kazakh: “Ченнай”
  • Kirghiz: “Ченнаи”
  • Komering: “Chennai”
  • Korean: “첸나니”
  • Korean: “첸나이”
  • Ladin: “Chennai”
  • Latin: “Maderaspatanum”
  • Latvian: “Čenaja”
  • Latvian: “Čennai”
  • Lithuanian: “Čenajus”
  • Luxembourgish: “Chennai”
  • Luxembourgish: “Madras”
  • Macedonian: “Мадрас”
  • Macedonian: “Ченај”
  • Maithili: “चेन्नई”
  • Malagasy: “Chennai”
  • Malay: “Chennai”
  • Malayalam: “ചെന്നൈ”
  • Malayalam: “മദിരാശി”
  • Malayalam: “മദ്രാസ്”
  • Maltese: “Chennai”
  • Maltese: “Madras”
  • Manx: “Chennai”
  • Maori: “Chennai”
  • Maori: “Kenai”
  • Marathi: “चेन्नई”
  • Marathi: “मद्रास”
  • Mazanderani: “مدرس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chennai”
  • Mingrelian: “ჩენაი”
  • Mingrelian: “金奈”
  • Moksha: “Чэнаи”
  • Mongolian: “Ченнай”
  • Nepali: “चेन्नई”
  • Newari: “चेन्नई”
  • Northern Frisian: “Chennai”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chennai”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Madras”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chennai”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Madras”
  • Norwegian: “Chennai”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Chennai”
  • Oriya: “ଚେନ୍ନାଇ”
  • Oriya: “ମାଡ୍ରାସ”
  • Ossetian: “Мадрас”
  • Ossetian: “Ченнаи”
  • Ossetian: “Ченнай”
  • Pampanga: “Chennai”
  • Panjabi: “ਚੇਨਈ”
  • Panjabi: “ਚੇਨੱਈ”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਦਰਾਸ”
  • Persian: “چنای”
  • Polish: “Ćennaj”
  • Polish: “Madras” (historical)
  • Portuguese: “Chenai”
  • Portuguese: “Chennai”
  • Portuguese: “Madras”
  • Portuguese: “Madrasta”
  • Pushto: “چينای”
  • Quechua: “Chennai”
  • Romanian: “Chennai”
  • Russia Buriat: “Ченнай”
  • Russian: “Мадрас”
  • Russian: “Ченнаи”
  • Sanskrit: “चेन्नै”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱟᱫᱽᱨᱟᱥ”
  • Santali: “ᱪᱮᱱᱱᱟᱭ”
  • Scots: “Chennai”
  • Serbian: “Ченај”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Čenaj”
  • Silesian: “Ćennaj”
  • Silesian: “Madras”
  • Sindhi: “چنائي”
  • Sinhala: “චෙන්නායි”
  • Slovak: “Čennai”
  • Slovak: “Chennai”
  • Slovenian: “Čenaj”
  • Slovenian: “Madras”
  • South Azerbaijani: “چنای”
  • Spanish: “Chennai”
  • Spanish: “Madras”
  • Spanish: “Madrás” (historical)
  • Swahili: “Chennai”
  • Swedish: “Chennai”
  • Swedish: “Madras” (historical)
  • Tagalog: “Chennai”
  • Tajik: “Ченнаи”
  • Tajik: “Ченнай”
  • Talysh: “Cennai”
  • Tamil: “Chennai”
  • Tamil: “சென்னை”
  • Tamil: “மதராசப்பட்டிணம்”
  • Tamil: “மதராசு”
  • Tamil: “மதராஸ்”
  • Tamil: “மெட்ராசு”
  • Tamil: “மெட்ராஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Ченнай”
  • Tatar: “Чинай”
  • Telugu: “చెన్నపట్టణం”
  • Telugu: “చెన్నపురి”
  • Telugu: “చెన్నై”
  • Telugu: “మద్రాసు”
  • Thai: “เจนไน”
  • Turkish: “Çennay”
  • Turkish: “Chennai”
  • Turkish: “Madras”
  • Turkmen: “Çennaý”
  • Twi: “Chennai”
  • Uighur: “مادراس”
  • Ukrainian: “Мадрас”
  • Ukrainian: “Ченнаї”
  • Ukrainian: “Ченнай”
  • Urdu: “چنئی”
  • Urdu: “چنائی”
  • Urdu: “چینئی”
  • Urdu: “چینائی”
  • Urdu: “مدراس”
  • Uzbek: “Chennay”
  • Venetian: “Chennai”
  • Veps: “Čennai”
  • Vietnamese: “Chennai”
  • Volapük: “Chennai”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chennai”
  • Welsh: “Chennai”
  • Western Armenian: “Չեննայ (Մատրաս)”
  • Western Armenian: “Չեննայ”
  • Western Panjabi: “چنئی”
  • Western Panjabi: “چنائی”
  • Wu Chinese: “金奈”
  • Yiddish: “מאדראס”
  • Yue Chinese: “清奈”
  • “चेन्नई”

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