Madurai
Madurai, formerly Madura, is the third-largest city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is on the banks of the river Vaigai and has been a major settlement for two millennia.Photo: எஸ்ஸார், CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Vegpuff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 1,700,000 residents
- Description: city of Tamil Nadu in southern India
- Historically known as: “Madura”
- Neighbors: Dindigul, Ramanathapuram, Theni, and Virudhunagar
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Madurai Junction and Thirumalai Nayakkar Mahal.
Madurai Junction
Railway station
Photo: TAMIZHU, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Madurai Junction railway station is an NSG-2 category Indian railway station in Madurai railway division of Southern Railway zone. It serves the city of Madurai, located in Madurai district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Thirumalai Nayakkar Mahal
Photo: R.K.Lakshmi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Thirumalai Nayakkar Mahal is a palace completed in 1636 by Tirumala Nayaka, a king of the Madurai Nayak dynasty, who ruled Madurai from 1623 to 1659. It is located 2 km to the southeast of the Meenakshi Amman Temple in central Madurai.
Kazimar Big Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Wasifwasif, Public domain.
The Kazimar Big Mosque, also known as the Kazimar Periya Pallivasal, is a Sufi Hanafi mosque in Madurai city, in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. The mosque was constructed in 683 AH and is the oldest mosque in the city.
Madurai
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Thirupparankundram, Madurai, Pandya Nadu, Tamil Nadu, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
9.9261° or 9° 55′ 34″ northLongitude
78.1141° or 78° 6′ 51″ eastPopulation
1,700,000Elevation
139 metres (456 feet)IATA airport code
IXMUnited Nations Location Code
IN IXMOpen location code
6JXWW4G7+CJOpenStreetMap ID
node 1254628537OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1264521Wikidata ID
Q228405
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Madurai” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Madurai”
- Albanian: “Madurai”
- Arabic: “مادوراي”
- Arabic: “مدورئي”
- Armenian: “Մադուրայ”
- Asturian: “Madurai”
- Azerbaijani: “Maduray”
- Basque: “Madurai”
- Belarusian: “Мадурай”
- Bengali: “মাদুরাই”
- Bhojpuri: “मदुरै”
- Bishnupriya: “মদুরাই”
- Breton: “Madurai”
- Bulgarian: “Мадурай”
- Catalan: “Madurai”
- Cebuano: “Madurai”
- Chechen: “Мадурай”
- Chinese: “Madurai”
- Chinese: “馬杜賴”
- Chinese: “马杜赖”
- Czech: “Madurai”
- Danish: “Madurai”
- Dutch: “Madurai”
- Dutch: “Mathurai”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مادوراى”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه مادوراى”
- Esperanto: “Madurai”
- Esperanto: “Maduraj”
- Estonian: “Madurai”
- Finnish: “Madurai”
- French: “Madurai”
- Georgian: “მადურაი”
- German: “Madurai”
- Greek: “Μαντουράι”
- Gujarati: “મદુરાઇ”
- Hebrew: “מאדוראי”
- Hebrew: “מדוראי”
- Hindi: “मदुरई”
- Hindi: “मदुरै”
- Hungarian: “Maduráj”
- Indonesian: “Madurai”
- Irish: “Madurai”
- Italian: “Madura”
- Italian: “Madurai”
- Japanese: “マドゥライ”
- Japanese: “ミーナークシ”
- Japanese: “ミーナクシ”
- Kannada: “ಮಧುರೈ”
- Kashmiri: “مَدورایی”
- Kashmiri: “مدورایے”
- Kirghiz: “Мадурай”
- Korean: “마두라이”
- Korean: “마두레이”
- Ladin: “Madurai”
- Latvian: “Maduraja”
- Lithuanian: “Madurajus”
- Magahi: “मदुरै”
- Maithili: “मदुरै”
- Malagasy: “Madurai”
- Malay: “Madurai”
- Malayalam: “Madurai”
- Malayalam: “Madurai”
- Malayalam: “മദുര”
- Malayalam: “മദുരൈ”
- Malayalam: “മധുര (തമിഴ് നാട്)”
- Malayalam: “മധുര ജില്ല”
- Malayalam: “മധുര”
- Marathi: “मदुरई”
- Marathi: “मदुरा”
- Marathi: “मदुराइ”
- Marathi: “मदुराई”
- Marathi: “मदुरै”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Madurai”
- Mingrelian: “მადურაი”
- Mongolian: “Мадурай”
- Nepali: “मदुरै”
- Newari: “मदुराइ”
- Newari: “मदुराय”
- Newari: “मदुरै”
- Northern Frisian: “Madurai”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Madurai”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Madurai”
- Norwegian: “Madurai”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Madurai”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Maturay”
- Oriya: “ମଦୁରାଇ”
- Ossetian: “Мадурай”
- Pampanga: “Madurai”
- Panjabi: “ਮਦੁਰਈ”
- Persian: “مادورای”
- Polish: “Madurai”
- Polish: “Maduraj”
- Portuguese: “Madura”
- Portuguese: “Madurai”
- Portuguese: “Maduré”
- Pushto: “مدورای”
- Romanian: “Madurai”
- Russian: “Мадураи”
- Russian: “Мадурай”
- Sanskrit: “मधुरै”
- Santali: “ᱢᱟᱫᱩᱨᱟᱭ”
- Scots: “Madurai”
- Serbian: “Мадурај”
- Slovenian: “Madurai”
- Spanish: “Madurai”
- Swedish: “Madhurai”
- Swedish: “Madurai”
- Talysh: “Madurai”
- Tamil: “தமிழகத்தின் தூங்கா நகரம்.”
- Tamil: “மதுரை”
- Tatar: “Мадурай”
- Telugu: “తూంగ నగరం”
- Telugu: “మదురై”
- Thai: “มตุไร”
- Thai: “มทุไร”
- Turkish: “Madurai”
- Ukrainian: “Мадурай”
- Urdu: “مدورئی”
- Urdu: “مدورائی”
- Urdu: “مدورائے”
- Uzbek: “Madura”
- Uzbek: “Maduray”
- Venetian: “Madurai”
- Vietnamese: “Madurai”
- Waray (Philippines): “Madurai”
- Western Panjabi: “مادورائ”
- Wu Chinese: “马杜赖”
- Yue Chinese: “馬杜賴”
- “मदुरै”
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