Palani
Palani is a town in Tamil Nadu. The Palani Murugan Temple, dedicated to Lord Murugan, sits on a hill overlooking the town. The temple is visited by more than 7 million pilgrims each year. As of 2011, the town had a population of 70,000.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 70,500 residents
- Description: town in Tamil Nadu
- Also known as: “Palni” and “Pazhani”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Thiru Dandayuthapani Swami Kovil and Palani railway station.
Thiru Dandayuthapani Swami Kovil
Hindu temple
Photo: Rejeesh Irinave, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dhandayuthapani Swamy Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Murugan situated atop a hillock amidst the Palani Hills in Palani, Dindigul district of Tamil Nadu.
Palani railway station
Railway station
Photo: Santosh4118, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Palani Railway Station is an NSG–4 category Indian railway station in Madurai railway division of Southern Railway zone. It serves the town of Palani, located in Dindigul district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Palani
- Category: locality
- Location: Palani, Dindigul, Southwestern Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
10.4511° or 10° 27′ 4″ northLongitude
77.5155° or 77° 30′ 56″ eastPopulation
70,500Elevation
328 metres (1,076 feet)United Nations Location Code
IN PKNOpen location code
7J2VFG28+C5OpenStreetMap ID
node 778229947OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Vietnamese—“Palani” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “পালনি”
- Bengali: “পালানি”
- Bishnupriya: “পালানি”
- Catalan: “Palani”
- Cebuano: “Palani”
- Chinese: “帕兰尼”
- Chinese: “帕拉尼”
- Chinese: “帕蘭尼”
- Dutch: “Palani”
- French: “Palani”
- German: “Palani”
- Gujarati: “પાલાની”
- Hindi: “पलनी”
- Italian: “Palani”
- Japanese: “パラニ”
- Kannada: “ಪಳನಿ”
- Kashmiri: “پالانی”
- Korean: “팔라니”
- Malagasy: “Palani”
- Malay: “Palani”
- Malayalam: “പഴനി”
- Marathi: “पलानी”
- Marathi: “पळणी”
- Oriya: “Palani”
- Oriya: “ପାଲାନି”
- Persian: “پالانی، هند”
- Portuguese: “Palani”
- Russian: “Палани”
- Sanskrit: “पळनी”
- Spanish: “Palani”
- Swedish: “Palani”
- Tamil: “பழநி”
- Tamil: “பழனி”
- Telugu: “పళని”
- Urdu: “پالانی”
- Vietnamese: “Palani”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Palani”. Photo: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 3.0.