Chidambaram
Chidambaram is a city in the southern state of Tamil Nadu in India with a population of about 62,000. Of the numerous temples the Nataraja Temple at Chidambaram is one of the most significant ones.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Sankar.s, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 60,000 residents
- Description: village in Cuddalore District, Tamil Nadu, India
- Also known as: “Chitdambaram”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nataraja Temple and Chidambaram railway station.
Nataraja Temple
Hindu temple
Photo: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, CC BY 2.0.
Thillai Nataraja Temple, also referred as the Chidambaram Nataraja Temple, is a Hindu temple dedicated to Nataraja, the form of Shiva as the lord of dance.
Chidambaram railway station
Railway station
Chidambaram railway station is an NSG–5 category Indian railway station in Tiruchirappalli railway division of Southern Railway zone. It is a railway station situated in Chidambaram, a municipal town and a taluk headquarters in Cuddalore district, Tamil Nadu, India.
Chidambaram
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Chidambaram, Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu North Coast, Tamil Nadu, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
11.3995° or 11° 23′ 58″ northLongitude
79.6909° or 79° 41′ 27″ eastPopulation
60,000Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)United Nations Location Code
IN CDMOpen location code
7J3X9MXR+Q9OpenStreetMap ID
node 891394174OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Vietnamese—“Chidambaram” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “চিদাম্বারম”
- Bishnupriya: “চিদাম্বরম”
- Bulgarian: “Чидамбарам”
- Catalan: “Chidambaram”
- Catalan: “Cidambaram”
- Cebuano: “Chidambaram”
- Chinese: “吉登伯勒姆”
- Czech: “Chidambaram”
- Danish: “Chidambaram”
- Dutch: “Chidambaram”
- French: “Chidambaram”
- French: “Cidambaram”
- Galician: “Chidambaram”
- German: “Chidambaram”
- German: “Cidambaram”
- German: “Thillai”
- German: “Tillai”
- Gujarati: “ચિદમ્બરમ્”
- Hebrew: “צ’ידמבארם”
- Hindi: “चिदंबरम”
- Hindi: “चिदम्बरम”
- Hindi: “चिदम्बरम्”
- Irish: “Chidambaram”
- Italian: “Chidambaram”
- Japanese: “チダムバラム”
- Japanese: “チダンバラム”
- Kannada: “ಚಿದಂಬರಂ”
- Kashmiri: “چدمبرم”
- Korean: “체다바람”
- Malagasy: “Chidambaram”
- Malay: “Chidambaram”
- Malayalam: “ചിദംബരം”
- Nepali: “चिदंबरम”
- Newari: “चिदाम्बरम”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chidambaram”
- Persian: “چیدامبارام”
- Polish: “Chidambaram”
- Polish: “Ćidambaram”
- Portuguese: “Chidambaram”
- Russian: “Чидамбарам”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Chidambaram”
- Spanish: “Chidambaram”
- Spanish: “Thillai”
- Spanish: “Tillai”
- Swedish: “Chidambaram”
- Swedish: “Chilambaram”
- Talysh: “Cidambaram”
- Tamil: “சிதம்பரம்”
- Telugu: “చిదంబరం”
- Telugu: “చిదంబరము”
- Ukrainian: “Чідамбарам”
- Urdu: “چدمبرم”
- Vietnamese: “Chidambaram”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Chidambaram”. Photo: Sankar.s, CC BY-SA 3.0.