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Madurai

Madurai, formerly Madura, is the third-largest city in the Indian state of . It's on the banks of the river Vaigai and has been a major settlement for two millennia.
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  • Type: City with 1,700,000 residents
  • Description: city of Tamil Nadu in southern India
  • Historically known as: “Madura”
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple and Madurai Junction.

Hindu temple
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Meenakshi Temple, also known as , is a historic located on the southern bank of the in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.

Railway station
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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 of the Indian state of .

Photo: R.K.Lakshmi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.

Madurai

Latitude
9.9261° or 9° 55′ 34″ north
Longitude
78.1141° or 78° 6′ 51″ east
Population
1,700,000
Elevation
139 metres (456 feet)
IATA airport code
IXM
United Nations Location Code
IN IXM
Open location code
6JXWW4G7+CJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1254628537
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1264521
Wiki­data ID
Q228405
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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: “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: “مَدورائی”
  • Kashmiri: “مدورایے”
  • Kirghiz: “Мадурай”
  • Korean: “마두라이”
  • Korean: “마두레이”
  • Ladin: “Madurai”
  • Latvian: “Maduraja”
  • Lithuanian: “Madurajus”
  • 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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