Shornur
Shornur is a small railway town in Palakkad District, Malabar, Kerala, India. Shornur is three kilometers from Kalamandalam, a cultural centre where the dance forms Kathakali and Koodiyattam are performed.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 10,000 residents
- Description: town in Kerala, India
- Also known as: “Shoranur” and “Shōranūr”
Photo: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Kir4189, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Raghu.kuttan, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Shoranur Junction railway station and Vallathol Museum.
Shoranur Junction railway station
Railway station
Photo: Rajishev, Public domain.
Shoranur Junction is an NSG–3 category Indian railway station in Palakkad railway division of Southern Railway zone. It is the railway station located at Shoranur, Palakkad District, Kerala.
Vallathol Museum
Museum
Vallathol Museum is a museum dedicated to Vallathol Narayana Menon, a poet in the Malayalam language and the founder of Kerala Kalamandalam. It is built on the banks of river Bharathapuzha at Vallathol Nagar in Cheruthuruthi, Thrissur District.
Institute for Communicative and Cognitive Neurosciences
Hospital
Institute for Communicative and Cognitive Neurosciences is an autonomous not-for-profit neuroscience speciality hospital & research institute established under Health and Family Welfare Department, Government of Kerala.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cheruthuruthi and Kulappully.
Cheruthuruthi
Village
Cheruthuruthy, also known as Vallathol Nagar, is a small town in India near Wadakkanchery in Thrissur district on the banks of the Nila River.
Kulappully
Village
Kulappully, located in the Palakkad District, state of Kerala, India, is a suburb of Shoranur municipality.
Shornur
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Ottappalam, Palakkad District, Central Kerala, Kerala, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
10.7637° or 10° 45′ 49″ northLongitude
76.2724° or 76° 16′ 21″ eastPopulation
10,000Elevation
38 metres (125 feet)Open location code
7J2RQ77C+FWOpenStreetMap ID
node 616276741OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1256432Wikidata ID
Q2720784
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Vietnamese—“Shornur” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “শোরানুর”
- Bishnupriya: “শোরানুর”
- Cebuano: “Shoranūr”
- Chinese: “紹勒努爾”
- Chinese: “绍勒努尔”
- Dutch: “Shoranur”
- Fiji Hindi: “Shoranur”
- French: “Shoranur”
- German: “Shoranur”
- Hindi: “शोरानूर”
- Irish: “Shoranur”
- Italian: “Shoranur”
- Kannada: “ಶೋರನೂರು”
- Malagasy: “Shoranur”
- Malay: “Shoranur”
- Malayalam: “Shoranur”
- Malayalam: “ഷൊർണൂർ”
- Malayalam: “ഷൊർണ്ണൂർ”
- Malayalam: “ഷൊറണൂർ”
- Marathi: “शोरणूर”
- Marathi: “षोरणूर”
- Oriya: “ଶୋରାନୁର”
- Russian: “Шоранур”
- Spanish: “Shoranur”
- Swedish: “Shoranūr”
- Tamil: “ஷொர்ணூர்”
- Telugu: “షోరనూర్”
- Urdu: “شورانور”
- Vietnamese: “Shoranur”
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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 “Shornur”. Photo: Dvellakat, CC BY-SA 3.0.