Puducherry
Pondicherry
Puducherry Taluk

Pondicherry

Pondicherry, also known as Puducherry or Pondy, is a city and an enclave within , . There is a strong French influence on the architecture of the city, especially in the old quarters, with rues and boulevards lined with Mediterranean-style houses and bakeries, although the city remains very much Indian.
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  • Type: City with 100,000 residents
  • Description: city in the Union Territory of Puducherry, India
  • Also known as: “Pondichéri”, “Ponducherry”, “Pondy”, “Poudhucherry”, “Puduchcheri”, “Puducherri”, “Puducherry”, and “Puduvai”
  • Historically known as: “Pondicherri” and “Pondicherry”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Our Lady of Immaculate Conception Cathedral and Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Church
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Immaculate Conception Cathedral is the cathedral mother church for the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Pondicherry and Cuddalore. It is located in the Union territory of .

Church
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is a Roman Catholic minor basilica situated on the south boulevard of Pondicherry in , , and is an oriental specimen of Gothic Revival architecture.

Railway station
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is an NSG–4 category Indian railway station in Tiruchirappalli railway division of Southern Railway zone. It is a railway terminus of the Villupuram–Pondicherry branch line serving the city of Pondicherry, headquarter of …

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Uzhavarkarai and Kottakuppam.

Town
is a city, a municipality and a taluk in Puducherry district in the union territory of . The enclaves of and Alankuppam are parts of municipality.

Town
is a developing municipality in in the state of , , approximately 5km from the nearby city of Pondicherry.

Pondicherry

Latitude
11.9341° or 11° 56′ 3″ north
Longitude
79.8306° or 79° 49′ 50″ east
Population
100,000
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
IATA airport code
PNY
United Nations Location Codes
IN PNY and IN PUD
Open location code
7J3XWRMJ+J7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245600130
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1259425
Wiki­data ID
Q639421
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Pondicherry” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بودوتشيري”
  • Arabic: “بونديشيري”
  • Armenian: “Պոնդիչերի”
  • Asturian: “Pondicherry”
  • Basque: “Puducherry”
  • Belarusian: “Пандычэры”
  • Bengali: “পণ্ডিচেরী”
  • Bengali: “পন্ডিচেরী”
  • Bengali: “পুদুচেরি”
  • Bhojpuri: “पांडिचेरी”
  • Bhojpuri: “पाण्डिचेरी”
  • Bishnupriya: “পন্ডিচেরী”
  • Breton: “Puducherry”
  • Catalan: “Pondicherry”
  • Cebuano: “Puducherry”
  • Chinese: “Puducherry”
  • Chinese: “庞第皆瑞”
  • Chinese: “朋迪榭里市”
  • Chinese: “本地治里”
  • Chinese: “本地治里市”
  • Czech: “Pondichery”
  • Czech: “Puduččéri”
  • Czech: “Puttuččéri”
  • Dutch: “Pondicherry”
  • Dutch: “Puducherry”
  • Esperanto: “Pondiĉero”
  • Esperanto: “Pondiĉerurbo”
  • Esperanto: “Puduĉeri”
  • Estonian: “Pondicherry”
  • Estonian: “Puducherry”
  • Finnish: “Pondicherry”
  • French: “Pondicherry”
  • French: “Pondichery”
  • French: “Pondichéry”
  • French: “Pondishéri”
  • French: “Poudouchéry”
  • French: “Territoire de Pondichéry”
  • Georgian: “პონდიშერი”
  • German: “Pondicherry”
  • German: “Pondichery”
  • German: “Pondichéry”
  • German: “Pondycherry”
  • German: “Pondychery”
  • German: “Pondychéry”
  • German: “Poudouchéry”
  • German: “Puduchchery”
  • German: “Puducheri”
  • German: “Puducherry”
  • German: “Puduchery”
  • German: “Putucceri”
  • German: “Putuccēri”
  • Goan Konkani: “Pondicherry”
  • Goan Konkani: “पाँडिचेरी”
  • Gujarati: “પૉંડિચેરી”
  • Hebrew: “פודוצ’רי”
  • Hindi: “पुदुचेरी”
  • Hindi: “पुदुच्चेरी”
  • Hindi: “पॉण्डिचेरी”
  • Hindi: “पॉन्डिचेरी”
  • Hungarian: “Puduccseri”
  • Indonesian: “Pondicherry”
  • Interlingua: “Pondicherry”
  • Irish: “Pondicherry”
  • Italian: “Pondicherry”
  • Italian: “Puducherry”
  • Japanese: “パーンディッチェーリ”
  • Japanese: “ポンジシェリー”
  • Japanese: “ポンディシェリ”
  • Japanese: “ポンディシェリー”
  • Kannada: “ಪಾಂಡಿಚೆರಿ ನಗರ”
  • Kannada: “ಪಾಂಡಿಚೆರಿ”
  • Kannada: “ಪುದುಚೆರಿ”
  • Kannada: “ಪುದುಚ್ಚೇರೀ”
  • Kashmiri: “پانڈچیری”
  • Kashmiri: “پانڈیچیری”
  • Korean: “폰디셰리”
  • Korean: “퐁디셰리”
  • Korean: “퐁디쉐리”
  • Korean: “푸두체리”
  • Kurdish: “Puduçerî”
  • Latin: “Pondicherium”
  • Lithuanian: “Pudučeris”
  • Maithili: “पुदुचेरी”
  • Maithili: “पोन्डीचेरी”
  • Malagasy: “Pondicherry (tanàna)”
  • Malagasy: “Pondicherry”
  • Malay: “Bandar Pondicherry”
  • Malayalam: “Pondicherry”
  • Malayalam: “പുതുച്ചേരി നഗരം”
  • Manipuri: “ꯄꯣꯟꯗꯤꯆꯦꯔꯤ”
  • Marathi: “पाँडिचेरी”
  • Marathi: “पुडुचेरी शहर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Puducherry”
  • Mingrelian: “პუდუჩერი”
  • Northern Frisian: “Puducherry”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Puducherry”
  • Norwegian: “Pondicherry”
  • Norwegian: “Puducherry”
  • Oriya: “ପଣ୍ଡିଚେରୀ”
  • Oriya: “ପଣ୍ଡୀଚେରୀ”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੁਡੂਚੇਰੀ (ਕੇਂਦਰ ਸ਼ਾਸਿਤ ਪ੍ਰਦੇਸ਼)”
  • Persian: “پوندیچری”
  • Polish: “Pondicherry”
  • Polish: “Puducherry”
  • Portuguese: “Pondicherry”
  • Romanian: “Pondicherry”
  • Russian: “Пондичерри”
  • Russian: “Пондишери”
  • Russian: “Путтуччерри”
  • Sanskrit: “पाण्डीचेरीनगरम्”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱚᱱᱰᱤᱪᱮᱨᱤ”
  • Scots: “Pondicherry”
  • Serbian: “Пондишери”
  • Slovenian: “Pondicherry”
  • Somali: “Pondicherry”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پوندیچری”
  • Spanish: “Puducherry”
  • Swedish: “Pondicherry”
  • Swedish: “Puducherry”
  • Tamil: “Puducherry”
  • Tamil: “பாண்டிச்சேரி”
  • Tamil: “புதுச்சேரி (நகரம்)”
  • Tamil: “புதுச்சேரி”
  • Tatar: “Пондишери”
  • Telugu: “పాండిచ్చేరి”
  • Turkish: “Puduçeri”
  • Turkish: “Puducherry”
  • Ukrainian: “Пондішері”
  • Ukrainian: “Пудучеррі”
  • Urdu: “پانڈچیری”
  • Uzbek: “Pondisheri”
  • Vietnamese: “Pondicherry”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Puducherry”
  • Welsh: “Pondicherry”
  • Welsh: “Puducherry”
  • Wu Chinese: “本地治里市”
  • Yue Chinese: “本地治里市”
  • “पांडिचेरी”

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