Thuckalay
Thuckalay or Thakkalai is a town in Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu, India. Thuckalay comes under the Padmanabhapuram Municipality, and is the administrative headquarters of Kalkulam Taluk.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town
- Description: human settlement in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, India
- Also known as: “Thakkalai”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Padmanabhapuram Palace and St. Mary’s Church, Thiruvithamcode.
Padmanabhapuram Palace
Museum
Photo: Shishirdasika, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Padmanabhapuram Palace, also known as Kalkulam Palace, is a Travancore-era palace located in Padmanabhapuram in the Kanyakumari district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
St. Mary’s Church, Thiruvithamcode
Church
Photo: Davidj233, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Thiruvithamcode Arappally, or Thomayar Kovil or St. Mary's Orthodox Church, is a church located in Thiruvithamcode in Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu state in India.
Udayagiri Fort
Fort
Photo: Sugeesh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
There are two forts named Udayagiri Fort in South India. Udayagiri Fort is situated 2½ km east of Thuckalay.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Padmanabhapuram and Thiruvithamcode.
Padmanabhapuram
Town
Photo: Prof. Mohamed Shareef, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Padmanabhapuram is a town and a municipality near Thuckalay in Kanyakumari district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. As of 2011, the town had a population of 21,342.
Thiruvithamcode
Town
Thiruvithamcode, is a small panchayat town located in the Kanyakumari district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Thiruvithamcode is about 20 km from Nagercoil and 2 km from Thuckalay.
Puliyoorkurichi
Village
Puliyoorkurichi is a small village in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is a suburb of Padmanabhapuram, about 3 kilometres southeast of Thuckalay on the Trivandrum-Nagercoil Highway.
Thuckalay
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Kalkulam, Kanniyakumari, Tamil Nadu, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
8.24724° or 8° 14′ 50″ northLongitude
77.31498° or 77° 18′ 54″ eastOpen location code
6JWV68W7+VXOpenStreetMap ID
node 353002000OpenStreetMap feature
place=townWikidata ID
Q3534438
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Tamil—“Thuckalay” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Thuckalay”
- Hindi: “तक्कलई”
- Irish: “Thuckalay”
- Malayalam: “Thuckalay”
- Malayalam: “തക്കല”
- Tamil: “தக்கலை”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Padhmanabapuram Government Hospital and Arokiya Annai Children Hospital.
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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 Wikipedia page “Thuckalay”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.