Chennai

Chennai, formerly Madras, is the largest coastal city in and the capital of the state of . It is on the east coast of peninsular 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.

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is the oldest part of the metropolis.

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is a posh new area of Chennai south of the Adyar River.
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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…

Library
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The Connemara Public Library at in Chennai…

Stadium
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Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu Tennis…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chetpet and Mylapore.

Suburb
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, also known as Chetput, is a neighbourhood…

Suburb
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, or Thirumayilai, is a neighbourhood in the central part of the city of Chennai, India.

Suburb
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is a business and residential neighbourhood in Central Chennai, , India.

Chennai

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Latitude
13.06008° or 13° 3′ 36″ north
Longitude
80.24998° or 80° 14′ 60″ east
UN/LOCODE
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”
  • Angika: “चेन्नई”
  • 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: “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: “Μαντράς”
  • 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”
  • Magahi: “चेन्नै”
  • Magahi: “मद्रास”
  • 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”
  • Somali: “Chennai”
  • 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”
  • Tulu: “ಚೆನ್ನೈ”
  • 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”

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