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Pulicat

Pulicat, also known as Pazhaverkadu, is a historic seashore town in the of , next to the Pulicat Lake. Pulicat Lake is a shallow salt water lagoon which stretches about 60 km along the coast.
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  • Type: Town
  • Description: town in Tamil Nadu, India
  • Also known as: “Palaverkādu”, “Palaverkfidu”, “Paliacate”, “Palleacatte”, and “Pazhaverkadu”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fort Geldria.

Fort
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
or Fort Geldaria, located in Pulicat, , was the seat of the Dutch Republic's first settlement in , and the capital of Dutch Coromandel.

Pulicat

Latitude
13.4177° or 13° 25′ 4″ north
Longitude
80.3167° or 80° 19′ east
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IN PUL
Open location code
7M52C898+3M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 322481124
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1259271
Wiki­data ID
Q2117793
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Tamil—“Pulicat” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بلكات”
  • Catalan: “Pulicat”
  • Dutch: “Pulicat”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بلكات”
  • German: “Pulicat”
  • Hindi: “पुलिकट”
  • Japanese: “プリカット”
  • Malay: “Pelikat”
  • Malayalam: “പുലിക്കാട്”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pulicat”
  • Norwegian: “Pulicat”
  • Portuguese: “Paliacate”
  • Slovenian: “Pulikat”
  • Spanish: “Pulicat”
  • Tamil: “பழவேற்காடு”

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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 “Pulicat”. Photo: Gowtham Sampath, CC BY-SA 4.0.