Tamil Nadu South Coast
Ramanathapuram district
Rameswaram

Rameswaram

Rameswaram is a town on Pamban Island, in state of . It's known for Ramanathaswamy Temple, a Hindu pilgrimage site with ornate corridors, huge sculpted pillars and sacred water tanks.
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  • Type: Town with 44,900 residents
  • Description: Town in Ramanathapuram District
  • Also known as: “Ramesvaram”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rameshwaram Ramanathaswamy Temple and Rameswaram railway station.

Hindu temple
Photo: Ssriram mt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ramanathaswamy Temple is a dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva located on Rameswaram island in the state of , India. It is one of the twelve Jyotirlinga temples.

Station
Photo: Ppyoonus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rameswaram railway terminus is an NSG–3 category Indian railway station in Madurai railway division of Southern Railway zone. It serves the town of Rameswaram, located in of the Indian state of .

Tower
Photo: prince tigereye, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a free-standing tower that was built in 1995. Standing at 323 metres, it is the second tallest structure in India. The tower is used by Doordarshan for television broadcasting.

Rameswaram

Latitude
9.2845° or 9° 17′ 4″ north
Longitude
79.3126° or 79° 18′ 45″ east
Population
44,900
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
Open location code
6JXX78M7+Q2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 339884241
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1258698
Wiki­data ID
Q1435144
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Rameswaram” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “رامسوارام”
  • Arabic: “راميشورم”
  • Assamese: “ৰামেশ্বৰম”
  • Asturian: “Rameswaram”
  • Bengali: “রামেশ্বরম”
  • Bhojpuri: “रामेश्वरम नगर”
  • Bishnupriya: “রামেশ্বরম”
  • Catalan: “Rameswaram”
  • Cebuano: “Rameswaram”
  • Chinese: “Rameswaram”
  • Chinese: “拉梅斯沃勒姆”
  • Chinese: “拉梅斯瓦拉姆”
  • Chinese: “拉美斯瓦兰”
  • Chinese: “拉美斯瓦蘭”
  • Danish: “Rameswaram”
  • Dutch: “Rameswaram”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “راميشورم”
  • Estonian: “Rameswaram”
  • Estonian: “Rāmeswaram”
  • Finnish: “Rameswaram”
  • French: “Rameshvaram”
  • French: “Rameshwaram”
  • French: “Rameswaram”
  • German: “Rameswaram”
  • Greek: “Ραμεσβάραμ”
  • Gujarati: “રામેશ્વરમ”
  • Hebrew: “ראמסוואראם”
  • Hebrew: “רמשווארם”
  • Hindi: “रामेश्वरम तीर्थ”
  • Hindi: “रामेश्वरम मंदिर”
  • Hindi: “रामेश्वरम शहर”
  • Hindi: “रामेश्वरम”
  • Hungarian: “Rámesvaram”
  • Italian: “Rameswaram”
  • Japanese: “ラーメーシュワラム”
  • Japanese: “ラーメシュワラム”
  • Kannada: “ರಾಮೇಚುವರಂ”
  • Kannada: “ರಾಮೇಶ್ವರಮ್”
  • Kashmiri: “رامیشورم”
  • Korean: “라메스와람”
  • Ladin: “Rameswaram”
  • Lithuanian: “Ramešvaramas”
  • Malagasy: “Rameswaram”
  • Malay: “Rameswaram, Ramanathapuram”
  • Malay: “Rameswaram”
  • Malayalam: “രാമേശ്വരം രാമനാഥസ്വാമി ക്ഷേത്രം”
  • Malayalam: “രാമേശ്വരം”
  • Manipuri: “ꯔꯥꯃꯦꯁ꯭ꯋꯔꯝ”
  • Marathi: “रामेश्वर”
  • Marathi: “रामेश्वरम”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Rameswaram”
  • Nepali: “रामेश्वरम तीर्थ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rameshwaram”
  • Norwegian: “Rameshwaram”
  • Oriya: “Ramanathaswamy Temple”
  • Oriya: “ରାମେଶ୍ଵର”
  • Oriya: “ରାମେଶ୍ୱରମ”
  • Pampanga: “Rameswaram”
  • Panjabi: “ਰਾਮੇਸ਼ਵਰਮ”
  • Panjabi: “ਰਾਮੇਸ਼੍ਵਰਮ”
  • Persian: “رامشوارام”
  • Polish: “Rameswaram”
  • Portuguese: “Rameswaram”
  • Russian: “Рамешварам”
  • Sinhala: “රාමේෂ්වරම්”
  • Spanish: “Ramanatha Swami”
  • Spanish: “Rameswaram”
  • Swedish: “Rameswaram”
  • Tamil: “இராமேசுவரம்”
  • Tamil: “இராமேஸ்வரம் இராமநாதசுவாமி கோயில்”
  • Tamil: “இராமேஸ்வரம்”
  • Tamil: “ராமேஸ்வரம்”
  • Telugu: “రామేశ్వరం”
  • Telugu: “రామేశ్వరము”
  • Thai: “ราเมศวรัม”
  • Ukrainian: “Рамешварам”
  • Urdu: “رامیشورم”
  • Vietnamese: “Rameswaram”
  • Western Panjabi: “رامیشورم”
  • “रामेश्वरम नगर”

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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 “Rameswaram”. Photo: Attumm, CC BY-SA 3.0.