Kerala
Kerala, a state in Southern India, is known as a tropical paradise of waving palms and wide, sandy beaches. Kerala is also known as God's own Country. It is a strip of coastal territory that slopes down the Western Ghats in a cascade of lush, green vegetation and reaches the Arabian sea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram.
Kochi
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Kochi, formerly Cochin, is a cosmopolitan city in Kerala with a bustling commercial port. Kochi is the financial and commercial capital of Kerala and, with a population of more than 2.1 million, the biggest conurbation in the state.
Thiruvananthapuram
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Located near the southern tip of mainland India, Thiruvananthapuram, formerly and often still known as Trivandrum, is the capital city of Kerala in Southern India.
Kozhikode
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Kozhikode, also known as Calicut, is a city along the Malabar Coast in the state of Kerala in India. The city is also known as the City of Spices. It is the nineteenth largest urban agglomeration in the country and the second largest one in Kerala.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Malabar and Central Kerala.
Malabar
Malabar is a region in South India. The name of the region is thought to be derived from the Malayalam words mala and vaaram, westernized into -bar. The region is a part of The Malabar Coast, which in historical contexts, refers to India's southwest coast, lying on the narrow coastal plain of Karnataka and Kerala states between the Western Ghats range and the Arabian Sea.
Central Kerala
Central Kerala covers 3 districts located middle of Kerala state. Central Kerala was part of erstwhile Kingdom of Kochi. Today it's a leading economic powerhouse of Kerala with several industries and trading firms.
Southern Travancore
Southern Travancore is in Kerala in India. It is home to the capital city and various monuments, famous beaches, large temples, churches, and sporting events. The region includes the districts of Kollam, Thiruvananthapuram, and Kanyakumari.
Central Travancore
Central Division or Central Travancore, also known as Kollam District or Quilon Division was one of three administrative subdivisions of the princely state of Travancore in what is now Kerala.
Northern Travancore
The Northern Division or Northern Travancore or Kottayam Division was one of the three administrative subdivisions of the princely state of Travancore in British India.
Kerala
- Type: State with 33,400,000 residents
- Description: Indian state
- Also known as: “God’s Own Country”, “IN-KL”, “Keralam”, and “Land of coconuts”
- Neighbors: Karnataka, Pondicherry, and Tamil Nadu
- Categories: state of India and locality
- Location: Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
10.3228° or 10° 19′ 22″ northLongitude of center
76.4319° or 76° 25′ 55″ eastPopulation
33,400,000Elevation
224 metres (735 feet)Abbreviation
“KL”OpenStreetMap ID
node 2237699954OpenStreetMap feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
1267254Wikidata ID
Q1186
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Kerala” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Kerala”
- Afrikaans: “Kerala”
- Albanian: “Kerala”
- Amharic: “ኬረለ”
- Angika: “केरल”
- Arabic: “كيرلا”
- Arabic: “كَيْرَلَة”
- Aragonese: “Kerala”
- Armenian: “Կերալա”
- Assamese: “কেৰল”
- Assamese: “কেৰালা”
- Assamese: “কেৰেলা”
- Asturian: “Kerala”
- Awadhi: “केरल”
- Azerbaijani: “Kerala”
- Balinese: “Kerala”
- Basque: “Kerala”
- Belarusian: “Керала”
- Bengali: “কেরল”
- Bhojpuri: “केरल”
- Bhojpuri: “केरला”
- Bishnupriya: “কেরালা”
- Bosnian: “Kerala”
- Breton: “Kerala”
- Bulgarian: “Керала”
- Burmese: “ကေရလပြည်နယ်”
- Catalan: “Kerala”
- Cebuano: “State of Kerala”
- Central Kurdish: “کێرالا”
- Chechen: “Керала”
- Chinese: “Kerala”
- Chinese: “克勒拉”
- Chinese: “喀拉拉邦”
- Chinese: “基拉拉邦”
- Chuvash: “Керала”
- Croatian: “Kerala”
- Czech: “Kérala”
- Danish: “Kerala”
- Dhivehi: “ކެރެލާ”
- Dotyali: “केरल”
- Dutch: “Kerala”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيرالا”
- Esperanto: “Keralao”
- Esperanto: “Keralo”
- Estonian: “Kerala”
- Fiji Hindi: “Kerala”
- Finnish: “Kerala”
- French: “Kerala”
- French: “Kérala”
- Galician: “Kerala”
- Georgian: “კერალა”
- German: “Kerala”
- Goan Konkani: “Kerall”
- Goan Konkani: “केरळ”
- Greek: “Κεράλα”
- Greek: “Κέραλα”
- Gujarati: “કેરળ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kerala”
- Hakka Chinese: “Khak-là-là-pâng”
- Hausa: “Kerala”
- Hebrew: “קרלה”
- Hindi: “केरल”
- Hungarian: “Kerala”
- Icelandic: “Kerala”
- Ido: “Kerala”
- Indonesian: “Kerala”
- Irish: “Kerala”
- Italian: “Kerala”
- Japanese: “ケーララ”
- Japanese: “ケーララ州”
- Japanese: “ケララ州”
- Kannada: “ಕೇರಳ”
- Kashmiri: “کیرل”
- Kashmiri: “کیرَلا”
- Komering: “Kerala”
- Korean: “케랄라 주”
- Korean: “케랄라”
- Korean: “케랄라주”
- Ladin: “Kerala”
- Lao: “ເຄຣາລາ”
- Latin: “Kerala”
- Latin: “Malabaria”
- Latvian: “Kerala”
- Lithuanian: “Kerala”
- Macedonian: “Керала”
- Maithili: “केरल”
- Maithili: “केरला”
- Malagasy: “Kerala”
- Malay: “Kerala”
- Malayalam: “കേരള”
- Malayalam: “കേരളം”
- Malayalam: “ദൈവത്തിന്റെ സ്വന്തം നാട്”
- Malayalam: “േകരളം”
- Manipuri: “ꯀꯦꯔꯂꯥ”
- Manipuri: “ꯀꯦꯔꯥꯂꯝ”
- Manipuri: “ꯌꯨꯕꯤꯒꯤ ꯂꯝꯗꯝ”
- Marathi: “केरळ”
- Mazanderani: “کرالا”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Kerala”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kerala”
- Mingrelian: “კერალა”
- Mongolian: “Керала”
- Nepali: “केरल”
- Nepali: “केरला”
- Newari: “केरल”
- Northern Frisian: “Kerala”
- Northern Luri: “کئرالا”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kerala”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kerala”
- Norwegian: “Kerala”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kerala”
- Oriya: “କେରଳ”
- Ossetian: “Кералæ”
- Pampanga: “Kerala”
- Panjabi: “ਕੇਰਲ”
- Panjabi: “ਕੇਰਲਾ”
- Persian: “کرالا”
- Persian: “کیرله”
- Polish: “Kerala”
- Portuguese: “Kerala”
- Portuguese: “Querala”
- Pushto: “کيرالا”
- Romanian: “Kerala”
- Russian: “Керала”
- Sakizaya: “Ke-la-la-pang”
- Sanskrit: “केरळम्”
- Sanskrit: “केरळराज्यम्”
- Santali: “ᱠᱮᱨᱚᱞ”
- Santali: “ᱠᱮᱨᱚᱲ”
- Santali: “ᱠᱮᱨᱞᱟ”
- Santali: “ᱠᱮᱨᱟᱞᱟ”
- Scots: “Kerala”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cearala”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Kerala”
- Serbian: “Керала”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kerala”
- Sindhi: “ڪيرالا”
- Sinhala: “කේරල”
- Sinhala: “කේරළය”
- Slovak: “Kérala”
- Slovenian: “Kerala”
- South Azerbaijani: “کرالا”
- Spanish: “Kerala”
- Swahili: “Kerala”
- Swedish: “Kerala”
- Swiss German: “Kerala”
- Tagalog: “Kerala”
- Tajik: “Керала”
- Tamil: “கேரளம்”
- Tamil: “கேரளா”
- Tatar: “Керала”
- Telugu: “కేరళ”
- Thai: “รัฐเกรละ”
- Tibetan: “ཀེ་ར་ལཱ།”
- Tosk Albanian: “Kerala”
- Tulu: “ಕೇರಳ”
- Turkish: “Kerala”
- Ukrainian: “Керала”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kerala”
- Urdu: “کیرل”
- Urdu: “کیرلا”
- Urdu: “کیرلہ”
- Uzbek: “Kerala”
- Venetian: “Kerala”
- Vietnamese: “Kerala”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kerala”
- Welsh: “Kerala”
- Western Panjabi: “کیرالہ”
- Western Panjabi: “کیرل”
- Western Panjabi: “کیرلا”
- Wu Chinese: “喀拉拉邦”
- Yiddish: “קעראלא”
- Yiddish: “קעראַלאַ”
- Yoruba: “Kerala”
- Yue Chinese: “基拉拉邦”
- “ma kipisi Kelalan”
- “ma lili Kelalan”
- “केरल”
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