Far Southern Tamil Nadu
Kanniyakumari
Agastheeswaram

Kanyakumari

Kanyakumari or Kanniyakumari is a town on the southernmost tip of the mainland of , in the state of . It is also known as Cape Comorin.
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  • Type: Town with 1,870,000 residents
  • Description: coastal city in the state of Tamil Nadu on main land India’s southern tip
  • Also known as: “Cape Cormorin”, “Kanniakumari”, “Kanniyākumar”, “Kanniyākumāri”, and “Kanyākumārī”

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 Kanyakumari, '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 Kanyakumari in the state of .

Work of art
Photo: Darisi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , or Valluvar Statue, is a 41-metre-tall stone sculpture of Tamil poet and philosopher Valluvar, known as Thiruvalluvar, the author of the Thirukkural, an ancient Tamil work on morality.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chinnamuttom.

Suburb
Photo: Godwinfelix00, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a special-grade village in Kanyakumari District in the state of in . is at the southernmost point of the .

Kanyakumari

Latitude
8.0793° or 8° 4′ 45″ north
Longitude
77.5499° or 77° 32′ 60″ east
Population
1,870,000
Elevation
36 metres (118 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IN KKM
Open location code
6JWV3GHX+PX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 353039871
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1268008
Wiki­data ID
Q222267
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In Other Languages

From Angika to Western Panjabi—“Kanyakumari” goes by many names.
  • Angika: “कन्याकुमारी”
  • Arabic: “كنياكماري”
  • Asturian: “Kanyakumari”
  • Bengali: “কন্যাকুমারী”
  • Bishnupriya: “কন্যাকুমারী”
  • Catalan: “Kanyakumari (ciutat)”
  • Catalan: “Kanyakumari”
  • Cebuano: “Kanniyākumāri”
  • Chinese: “Kanyakumari”
  • Chinese: “甘巴里”
  • Chinese: “科摩林角”
  • Czech: “Kannijákumari”
  • Danish: “Comorin”
  • Danish: “Kap Comorin”
  • Danish: “Kap Komori”
  • Danish: “Komori”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kanyakumari”
  • Dotyali: “कन्याकुमारी”
  • Dutch: “Cape Comorin”
  • Dutch: “Kaap Comorin”
  • Dutch: “Kanyakumari”
  • Finnish: “Kanyakumari”
  • French: “Cap Comorin”
  • French: “Kanyakumari”
  • French: “Kânyâkumârî”
  • German: “Kanniyakumari”
  • German: “Kanya Kumari”
  • German: “Kanyakumari”
  • Goan Konkani: “Kanyakumari”
  • Goan Konkani: “कन्याकुमारी”
  • Gujarati: “કન્યાકુમારી”
  • Hebrew: “קניאקומארי”
  • Hebrew: “קניאקומארי‎”
  • Hindi: “कन्याकुमारी”
  • Hungarian: “Kanjakumari”
  • Indonesian: “Kanyakumari”
  • Italian: “Kanyakumari”
  • Japanese: “カニャークマリ”
  • Japanese: “カニヤークマリ”
  • Japanese: “カンニヤークマリ”
  • Japanese: “コモリン岬”
  • Kannada: “ಕನ್ಯಾ ಕುಮಾರಿ”
  • Kannada: “ಕನ್ಯಾಕುಮಾರಿ”
  • Kashmiri: “راس کنیاکماری”
  • Kashmiri: “کنیاکُماری”
  • Korean: “카니아쿠마리”
  • Korean: “칸야쿠마리”
  • Ladin: “Kanyakumari”
  • Literary Chinese: “甘巴里”
  • Lithuanian: “Kanjakumari”
  • Maithili: “कन्याकुमारी”
  • Malagasy: “Kanyakumari”
  • Malay: “Kanniyakumari”
  • Malayalam: “Kanyakumari”
  • Malayalam: “കന്യാകുമാരി”
  • Manipuri: “ꯀꯅ꯭ꯌꯥꯀꯨꯃꯥꯔꯤ”
  • Marathi: “कन्याकुमारी”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kanyakumari”
  • Nepali: “कन्याकुमारी”
  • Newari: “कन्नियाकुमारी”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cape Comorin”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kanyakumari”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kapp Comorin”
  • Norwegian: “Kanyakumari”
  • Oriya: “Kanyakumari”
  • Oriya: “କନ୍ୟାକୁମାରୀ”
  • Pampanga: “Kanyakumari”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੰਨਿਆਕੁਮਾਰੀ”
  • Persian: “کانیاکوماری”
  • Polish: “Komoryn”
  • Polish: “Przylądek Komoryn”
  • Portuguese: “Cabo Comorim”
  • Portuguese: “Kanyakumari”
  • Portuguese: “Kânyâkumârî”
  • Romanian: “Kanyakumari”
  • Russian: “Канниякумари”
  • Russian: “Каньякумари”
  • Sanskrit: “कन्याकुमारी”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱚᱱᱭᱟᱠᱩᱢᱟᱨᱤ”
  • Spanish: “Kanniyakumari”
  • Spanish: “Kanyakumari”
  • Swedish: “Kanniyakumari”
  • Swedish: “Kanyakumari”
  • Tamil: “Kanniyākumāri”
  • Tamil: “கன்னியாகுமரி”
  • Telugu: “కన్యా కుమారి”
  • Telugu: “కన్యాకుమారి అగ్రము”
  • Telugu: “కన్యాకుమారి జిల్లా”
  • Telugu: “కన్యాకుమారి”
  • Thai: “กันนิยากุมริ”
  • Turkish: “Kanyakumari”
  • Ukrainian: “Кан’якумарі”
  • Ukrainian: “Каньякумарі”
  • Urdu: “راس کماری”
  • Urdu: “راس کنیاکماری”
  • Urdu: “کنیاکماری”
  • Vietnamese: “Kanniyakumari”
  • Vietnamese: “Kanyakumari”
  • Western Panjabi: “کنیاکماری”

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