Kozhikode

Kozhikode, also known as Calicut, is a historic city along the Malabar Coast in the state of in India. The city is also known as the City of Spices.
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  • Type: City with 432,000 residents
  • Description: city in Kerala, India
  • Also known as: “City of Spices”, “Kolikod”, and “Kozhikkot”
  • Historically known as: “Calicut” and “Kalicut”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kozhikode railway station and Calicut Lighthouse.

Railway station
Photo: Mohamed images, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an NSG–2 category Indian railway station in Palakkad railway division of Southern Railway zone. It was given by Kallingal Madathil Rarichan Moopan to the British Indian Railways for a lease agreement of 99 years.

Lighthouse
Photo: Drajay1976, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kozhikkode Lighthouse is a defunct light in the Kozhikkode District of . It was constructed in 1907. The first lighthouse was constructed in 1847 at a height of 33 meters.

Pond
Photo: Prof tpms, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a man-made freshwater pond situated in the centre of the city of Kozhikode in , southern India. The pond is 3.49 acres in area, is rectangular in shape and is fed by a natural spring.

Kozhikode

Latitude
11.25° or 11° 15′ north
Longitude
75.77° or 75° 46′ 12″ east
Population
432,000
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
IATA airport code
CCJ
United Nations Location Code
IN CCJ
Open location code
7J3Q7Q29+2X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1348192542
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1265873
Wiki­data ID
Q28729
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Kozhikode” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “قاليقوط”
  • Arabic: “كاليكوت”
  • Aragonese: “Kozhikode”
  • Armenian: “Կոժիկոդե”
  • Assamese: “ক’ঝিক’ড”
  • Assamese: “ক’ঝিক’ড়”
  • Assamese: “কঝিকড”
  • Assamese: “কলিকট”
  • Assamese: “কালিকট”
  • Assamese: “কেলিকাট”
  • Asturian: “Kozhikode”
  • Basque: “Calicut”
  • Basque: “Kozhikode”
  • Belarusian: “Кажыкодэ”
  • Bengali: “কালিকট”
  • Bengali: “কোঝিকোড়”
  • Bhojpuri: “कोझिकोड”
  • Bishnupriya: “কজহিকোদে”
  • Breton: “Kozhikode”
  • Bulgarian: “Каликут”
  • Bulgarian: “Кожикод”
  • Bulgarian: “Кожикоде”
  • Catalan: “Calicut”
  • Catalan: “Kozhikode”
  • Catalan: “Zamorin”
  • Chinese: “Kozhikode”
  • Chinese: “卡利卡特”
  • Chinese: “卡利库特”
  • Chinese: “卡里卡特”
  • Chinese: “古里”
  • Chinese: “古里佛”
  • Chinese: “科兹科德”
  • Chinese: “科泽科德”
  • Chinese: “科澤科德”
  • Chinese: “科茲科德”
  • Chuvash: “Кожикоде”
  • Czech: “Kalikat”
  • Czech: “Kalikut”
  • Czech: “Kóžikkót”
  • Danish: “Calicut” (historical)
  • Dhivehi: “ކާލީކޯޓު”
  • Dutch: “Calicut” (historical)
  • Dutch: “Kozhikode”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاليكوت”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوزيكود”
  • Esperanto: “Kalikuto” (historical)
  • Esperanto: “Koĵikode”
  • Estonian: “Kozhikode”
  • Finnish: “Calicut”
  • Finnish: “Kozhikkode”
  • Finnish: “Kozhikode”
  • French: “Calicut”
  • French: “Kozhikode”
  • Galician: “Kozhikode”
  • Georgian: “კოჟიკოდე”
  • German: “Calicut”
  • German: “Kalikut”
  • German: “Kozhikode”
  • Greek: “Κορικόντ”
  • Gujarati: “કાલિકટ”
  • Gujarati: “કોઝિકોડ”
  • Gujarati: “કોઝીક્કોડ”
  • Gujarati: “કોઝીલકોડ”
  • Gujarati: “કોળિક્કોટ્”
  • Hebrew: “קוז’יקוד”
  • Hebrew: “קוזי’קוד”
  • Hebrew: “קוזי’קודה”
  • Hebrew: “קוזיקוד”
  • Hebrew: “קליקוט”
  • Hindi: “कालीकट”
  • Hindi: “कोजीकोड”
  • Hindi: “कोज़ीकोड”
  • Hindi: “कोड़िकोड”
  • Hindi: “कोलिकोड”
  • Hindi: “कोष़िक्कोड”
  • Hungarian: “Kozsíkóde”
  • Ido: “Kozhikode”
  • Indonesian: “Kozhikode”
  • Irish: “Kozhikode”
  • Italian: “Calicut”
  • Italian: “Kozhikode”
  • Japanese: “カリカット”
  • Japanese: “コージコード”
  • Japanese: “コーリコード”
  • Japanese: “コジコデ”
  • Japanese: “古裏”
  • Kannada: “ಕಲ್ಲಿಕೋಟೆ”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊಜಿಕೊಡೆ”
  • Kannada: “ಕೋಜಿಕೋಡ್”
  • Kannada: “ಕೋಳಿಕೋಡು”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾಲಿಕಟ್”
  • Kashmiri: “کالیکٹ”
  • Korean: “캘리컷”
  • Korean: “코지코드”
  • Ladin: “Kozhikode”
  • Latin: “Calicutium”
  • Latin: “Caliquit”
  • Latin: “Collicuthia”
  • Latvian: “Kalikuta”
  • Latvian: “Kožikode”
  • Lithuanian: “Kožikodė”
  • Magahi: “कलिकट”
  • Magahi: “कोलिक्कोडे”
  • Magahi: “कोलिक्कोड्”
  • Maithili: “कोझिकोड”
  • Malagasy: “Kozhikode”
  • Malay: “Kalikat”
  • Malay: “Kozhikode”
  • Malayalam: “കോഴിക്കോട് ജില്ല”
  • Malayalam: “കോഴിക്കോട് നഗരം”
  • Malayalam: “കോഴിക്കോട്”
  • Malayalam: “കോഴിക്കോട്‌”
  • Marathi: “कालिकट”
  • Marathi: “कालिकत”
  • Marathi: “कोझिकोड”
  • Marathi: “कोझिकोडे”
  • Marathi: “कोझीकोड”
  • Marathi: “कोझीकोडे”
  • Marathi: “कोळिकोड”
  • Marathi: “कोळिकोडे”
  • Marathi: “कोळीकोड”
  • Marathi: “कोळीकोडे”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kozhikode”
  • Nepali: “कोझिकोड”
  • Nepali: “क्यालिकट”
  • Newari: “कोझिकोडे”
  • Newari: “कोलिक्कोट”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Calicut”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kozhikode”
  • Norwegian: “Kozhikode”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kozhikode”
  • Oriya: “କାଲିକଟ”
  • Oriya: “କୋଝିକୋଡ଼”
  • Oriya: “କୋଳିକୋଡ଼”
  • Pampanga: “Kozhikode”
  • Persian: “کالیکات”
  • Persian: “کالیکوت”
  • Persian: “کوزیکود”
  • Polish: “Kalikat”
  • Polish: “Kalikut”
  • Polish: “Kozhikode”
  • Portuguese: “Calecut”
  • Portuguese: “Calicute”
  • Portuguese: “Kozhikode”
  • Portuguese: “Calecute” (historical)
  • Romanian: “Calicut” (historical)
  • Russian: “Каликат”
  • Russian: “Каликут”
  • Russian: “Калькутта”
  • Russian: “Кожикоде”
  • Sanskrit: “कलिकट्”
  • Sanskrit: “कोळिकोडे”
  • Sanskrit: “कोळिकोड्”
  • Sanskrit: “कोऴिक्कोट्”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱚᱡᱷᱤᱠᱚᱰ”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱟᱞᱤᱠᱟᱴ”
  • Scots: “Kozhikode”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Calicut” (historical)
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kozhikode”
  • Serbian: “Kozhikode”
  • Serbian: “Кожикоде”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kozhikode”
  • Silesian: “Kozhikode”
  • Sinhala: “කොසිකොඩේ”
  • Slovenian: “Kozhikode”
  • Spanish: “Calicut”
  • Spanish: “Kozhikode”
  • Swahili: “Calicut”
  • Swedish: “Calicut” (historical)
  • Swedish: “Kalikut”
  • Swedish: “Kozhikode”
  • Tamil: “கோழிக்கோடு”
  • Telugu: “కాలికట్”
  • Telugu: “కోజికోడ్”
  • Telugu: “కోళికోడ్”
  • Thai: “Calicut”
  • Thai: “Kozhikkode”
  • Thai: “Kozhikode”
  • Thai: “โกฬิกโกฏ”
  • Thai: “แคลิคัต”
  • Thai: “โคชิโคด”
  • Turkish: “Kozhikode”
  • Ukrainian: “Кожикоде”
  • Urdu: “کالیکٹ”
  • Uzbek: “Kalikut”
  • Uzbek: “Kojikode”
  • Venetian: “Kozhikode”
  • Vietnamese: “Kozhikode”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kozhikode”
  • Western Panjabi: “کوزیکوڈ”
  • Wu Chinese: “科泽科德”
  • “कोझिकोड”

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