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Kovalam

Kovalam is a village in the southern state of in , about 17 km from . Kovalam is famous for its beaches, among the most pristine in India. Kovalam is extremely popular among westerners due to shallow waters and low tidal waves.
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  • Type: Suburb with 6,000 residents
  • Description: neighborhood in Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Also known as: “Kovilam”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Vizhinjam Lighthouse and Vizhinjam International Seaport Thiruvananthapuram.

Lighthouse
Photo: Akhilan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
or Trivandrum Lighthouse is situated near Kovalam beach in . It started functioning on 30 June 1972. Vizhinjam was a busy seaport in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Photo: arun..., CC BY-SA 2.0.
also known as Trivandrum Port is India's first deep-water transshipment port. Located within the city of , the port is designed to be a multi-purpose, all-weather, green port and is about 19 kilometres from .

Building
Photo: Laksmo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
was built in 1932 in the princely state of Travancore, in the modern-day state of , . It was constructed by M.R.Ry Sri Rama Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran, the consort of Maharani Sethu Lakshmi Bayi, as a retreat for their family.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Venganoor and Vizhinjam.

Suburb
is an area within the Trivandrum City of , India, which is situated 13 km south of the city. It is known as the birthplace of Ayyankali, the great Dalit leader of Kerala.

Suburb
Photo: Luidger, CC BY 3.0.
is an area located in the city of , the capital city of the state of in . which belongs to Thiruvananthapuram Corporation.

Village
Photo: Shishirdasika, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village situated in the coastal belt of Thiruvananthapuram district in the state of , India. is situated 6 km southeast of Kovalam.

Kovalam

Latitude
8.3903° or 8° 23′ 25″ north
Longitude
76.9785° or 76° 58′ 43″ east
Population
6,000
United Nations Location Code
IN KVL
Open location code
6JWR9XRH+4C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 304916587
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
1265896
Wiki­data ID
Q1785641
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Kovalam” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كووالام”
  • Asturian: “Kovalam”
  • Bulgarian: “Ковалам”
  • Cebuano: “Kovalam”
  • Chinese: “科瓦兰”
  • Chinese: “科瓦兰海滩”
  • Dutch: “Kovalam”
  • French: “Kovalam”
  • German: “Kovalam”
  • Hindi: “कोवलम”
  • Hungarian: “Kovalam”
  • Italian: “Kovalam”
  • Japanese: “コバラム”
  • Korean: “코발람”
  • Maithili: “कोवलम”
  • Malayalam: “Kovalam”
  • Malayalam: “കോവളം”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kovalam”
  • Norwegian: “Kovalam”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੋਵਲਮ”
  • Russian: “Ковалам”
  • Sanskrit: “कोवलम्”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کووالام”
  • Swedish: “Kovalam”
  • Tamil: “கோவளம்”
  • Vietnamese: “Kovalam”
  • Western Panjabi: “کوولم”

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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 “Kovalam”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.