Karaikal

Karaikal is a town in Karaikal Taluk, Pondicherry and has about 10,000 residents. Karaikal is situated nearby to the village Akkaraivattam, as well as near the suburb Nehru Nagar.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Karaikal railway station and Our Lady of Angels Church.

Karaikal railway station

Railway station

Karaikal railway station is an NSG–4 category Indian railway station in Tiruchirappalli railway division of Southern Railway zone. It is a railway terminus, situated in the city of Karaikal in the Union Territory of Puducherry, India.

Our Lady of Angels Church

Church

Photo: Nissar16, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Our Lady of Angels Church is the oldest church in Karaikal in the Union territory of Pondicherry, in Southern India. The current structure was built in Neo-Gothic architecture by the French Colonial Empire in 1822.

Karaikal Lighthouse

Lighthouse

Photo: RameshSharma1, CC BY 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Karaikal and Neravy.

Karaikal

Photo: Jbuchholz, CC BY 3.0.

Karaikal district, part of the discontiguous union territory of Pondicherry, is a small enclave within Tamil Nadu. Karaikal and the other parts of Pondicherry are former French colonial territories in India.

Neravy

Village

Neravy, or Neravi, is a town and commune in the Karaikal District of Puducherry, India. The village lies 145 km south of Puducherry in the Puducherry district, and is located between Karaikal and Nagapattinam. Neravy is situated 3 km south of Karaikal.

Tirumalairayanpattinam

Town

Tirumalairayanpattinam is a census town and commune in the Karaikal District of Puducherry, India. Tirumalairayanpattinam is situated at a distance of 6 kilometres to the south of Karaikal municipality. Tirumalairayanpattinam is situated 4½ km south of Karaikal.

Karaikal

Type: Town with 10,000 residents
Category: locality
Location: Karaikal Taluk, Karaikal, Pondicherry, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude

10.91571° or 10° 54′ 57″ north

Longitude

79.83758° or 79° 50′ 15″ east

Population

10,000

Open location code

7J2XWR8Q+72

OpenStreetMap ID

node 891394169

OpenStreetMap feature

place=town

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