Punalur
Punalur is a municipality in the Kollam district of Kerala, India. It is the headquarters of the Punalur Taluk and Punalur Revenue Division. It is in the eastern part of the Kollam district of Kerala, on the banks of the Kallada River and foothills of the Western Ghats.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Punalur railway station and St. Mary’s Cathedral, Punalur.
Punalur railway station
Railway station
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Punalur railway station is an NSG–6 category Indian railway station in Madurai railway division of Southern Railway zone. It serves Punalur, located in Kollam district of the Indian state of Kerala.
St. Mary’s Cathedral, Punalur
Church
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St. Mary's Cathedral is the first church in the centuries-old history of this industrial town Punalur, on the banks of Kallada river. Catholics and Christian faithful working in Punalur Paper Mills, Railway and Rubber Estates along with the farmers were the early community of the church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mathra.
Mathra
Village
Mathra is a village in Kollam district in the Indian state of Kerala, located near the town of Punalur. It is the headquarters of Mathra Grama Panchayat, a fertile area in which many residents are engaged in farming. Mathra is situated 3½ km southwest of Punalur.
Punalur
- Type: Town with 47,300 residents
- Description: city
- Categories: city, administrative territorial entity, and locality
- Location: Punalur, Kollam, Southern Travancore, Kerala, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
9.0175° or 9° 1′ 3″ northLongitude
76.9265° or 76° 55′ 35″ eastPopulation
47,300Elevation
38 metres (125 feet)Open location code
6JXR2W8G+XHOpenStreetMap ID
node 3390746721OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1259243Wikidata ID
Q742720
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Punalur” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Punalur”
- Bengali: “পুনলুর”
- Bishnupriya: “পুনলুর”
- Cebuano: “Punalūr”
- Chinese: “Punalur”
- Chinese: “普納魯爾”
- Chinese: “普纳卢尔”
- Chinese: “普纳鲁尔”
- Dutch: “Punalur”
- French: “Punalur”
- German: “Punalur”
- Gujarati: “પુનાલુર”
- Hindi: “पुनलूर”
- Hindi: “पुनालूर”
- Italian: “Punalur”
- Japanese: “パナロー”
- Japanese: “プナルアー”
- Kannada: “ಪುನಲೂರು”
- Kannada: “ಪುನಲೂರ್”
- Kashmiri: “پونالور”
- Korean: “푸나루르”
- Malagasy: “Punalur”
- Malay: “Punalur”
- Malayalam: “പുനലൂർ”
- Marathi: “पुनलुर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Punalur”
- Oriya: “ପୁନାଲୁର”
- Pampanga: “Punalur”
- Persian: “پونالور”
- Portuguese: “Punalur”
- Russian: “Пуналур”
- Spanish: “Punalur”
- Swedish: “Punalūr”
- Tamil: “புனலூர்”
- Telugu: “పునలూరు”
- Urdu: “پونالور”
- Vietnamese: “Punalur”
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