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Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu, the land of Tamils, is a state in the south of known for its temples and architecture, food, movies and classical Indian dance and Carnatic music.
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, formerly Madras, is the capital of the state of Tamil Nadu. With a population of 8.6 million, 's urbanised area is the most populous in Southern India and the fourth most populous in India.

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, formerly Madura, is the third-largest city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It's on the banks of the river Vaigai and has been a major settlement for two millennia.

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is an industrial city of 2 million people in Tamil Nadu, often likened to being the or of . It's famous for the manufacture of motor-pump sets and varied engineering goods.

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The North Coast of Tamil Nadu consists of Chengalpattu, Chennai, Kanchipuram and Tiruvallur districts.

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is in Tamil Nadu, . It consists of Coimbatore, Erode and Tirupur districts.

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The Far South of Tamil Nadu consists of Kanyakumari, Tenkasi, Thoothukudi and Tirunelveli districts.

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The South Coast of Tamil Nadu consists of Karaikal, Mayiladuthurai, Nagapattinam, Pudukkottai, Ramanathapuram, Sivaganga, Thanjavur and Tiruvarur districts.

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is in Tamil Nadu, . It consists of Dindigul, Madurai, Theni and Virudhunagar districts.

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is in Tamil Nadu, . It consists of Karur, Namakkal, Perambalur, Salem and Tiruchirappalli districts.

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is a region of Tamil Nadu, . It consists of Dharmapuri, Kanchipuram, Krishnagiri, Ranipet, Tirupattur, Tiruvannamalai, Kallakurichi and Vellore districts.

Tamil Nadu

Latitude of center
11.5819° or 11° 34′ 55″ north
Longitude of center
78.772° or 78° 46′ 19″ east
Population
72,100,000
Elevation
98 metres (322 feet)
Abbreviation
“TN”
United Nations Location Code
IN TAM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 13395044031
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1255053
Wiki­data ID
Q1445
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Tamil Nadu” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Afrikaans: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Albanian: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Amharic: “ታሚል ናዱ”
  • Angika: “तमिलनाडु”
  • Arabic: “تاميل نادو”
  • Arabic: “تملنادة”
  • Aragonese: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Armenian: “Թամիլ Նադու”
  • Assamese: “তামিলনাডু”
  • Asturian: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Awadhi: “तमिलनाडु”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tamilnad”
  • Balinese: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Basque: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Belarusian: “Тамілнад”
  • Bengali: “তামিলনাড়ু”
  • Bhojpuri: “तमिलनाडु”
  • Bishnupriya: “তমিল নাড়ু”
  • Bishnupriya: “তামিল নাড়ু”
  • Breton: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Bulgarian: “Тамил Наду”
  • Burmese: “တမီးလ်နာဒူပြည်နယ်”
  • Burmese: “မဒရပ်ပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Cebuano: “State of Tamil Nādu”
  • Central Bikol: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Central Kanuri: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Chechen: “Тамилнад”
  • Chinese: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Chinese: “坦米爾納德邦”
  • Chinese: “坦米爾納杜邦”
  • Chinese: “坦米爾那都邦”
  • Chinese: “塔米爾納杜邦”
  • Chinese: “泰米尔纳德邦”
  • Chinese: “泰米爾納德邦”
  • Chinese: “泰米爾納都”
  • Chinese: “淡米尔纳德邦”
  • Chinese: “淡米爾納德邦”
  • Croatian: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Czech: “Tamilnádu”
  • Danish: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Dhivehi: “ޓެމިލް ނާޑޫ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Tamil Nadu”
  • Dotyali: “तमिलनाडु”
  • Dutch: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تاميل نادو”
  • Esperanto: “Tamilnado”
  • Estonian: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Finnish: “Tamil Nadu”
  • French: “Tamil Nadou”
  • French: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Galician: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Gan Chinese: “泰米爾納都邦”
  • Georgian: “ტამილნადუ”
  • German: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Goan Konkani: “Tamillnaddu”
  • Goan Konkani: “तमिळनाडू”
  • Greek: “Ταμίλ Ναντού”
  • Gujarati: “તમિલનાડુ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Thai-mí-ngì-na̍p-tet-pâng”
  • Hausa: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Hebrew: “טאמיל נאדו”
  • Hebrew: “טמיל נאדו”
  • Hindi: “तमिल नाडु”
  • Hindi: “तामिल नाडू”
  • Hungarian: “Tamilnádu”
  • Icelandic: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Ido: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Indonesian: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Inupiaq: “Tamilnadu”
  • Irish: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Italian: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Japanese: “タミル・ナードゥ”
  • Japanese: “タミル・ナードゥ州”
  • Javanese: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Kannada: “ತಮಿಳು ನಾಡು”
  • Kannada: “ತಮಿಳುನಾಡು”
  • Kashmiri: “تٲمِل ناڈوٗ”
  • Kazakh: “Тамилнад”
  • Kirghiz: “Тамил Наду”
  • Komering: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Korean: “타밀나두 주”
  • Korean: “타밀나두”
  • Korean: “타밀나두주”
  • Ladin: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Latin: “Coromandela”
  • Latin: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Latvian: “Tamilnāda”
  • Lithuanian: “Tamilnadas”
  • Macedonian: “Тамил Наду”
  • Maithili: “तमिलनाडु”
  • Maithili: “तामिलनाडु”
  • Malagasy: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Malay: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Malay: “تاميل نادو”
  • Malayalam: “തമിഴ്‌നാട്”
  • Maltese: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Manipuri: “ꯇꯥꯃꯤꯜ ꯅꯥꯗꯨ”
  • Marathi: “तमिळनाडू”
  • Mazanderani: “تامیل نادو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Mingrelian: “ტამილნადუ”
  • Mongolian: “Тамил Наду”
  • Mongolian: “Тамилнаду”
  • Nepali: “तमिलनाडु”
  • Newari: “तमिलनाडु”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Northern Luri: “تامیل نادو”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Norwegian: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tamil Nadu”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tamilland”
  • Oriya: “ତାମିଲନାଡୁ”
  • Ossetian: “Тамилнад”
  • Pampanga: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਮਿਲ਼ ਨਾਡੂ”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਾਮਿਲ ਨਾਡੂ”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਾਮਿਲਨਾਡੂ”
  • Persian: “تامیل نادو”
  • Polish: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Polish: “Tamilnadu”
  • Portuguese: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Portuguese: “Tâmil Nadu”
  • Pushto: “تاميل ناډو”
  • Quechua: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Romanian: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Russian: “Тамил-Наду”
  • Russian: “Тамилнад”
  • Sanskrit: “तमिळनाडुराज्यम्”
  • Sanskrit: “तमिळ्नाडुराज्यम्”
  • Santali: “ᱛᱟᱢᱤᱞᱱᱟᱰᱩ”
  • Saraiki: “تمل ناڈو”
  • Scots: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Serbian: “Тамил Наду”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Sindhi: “تامل ناڊو”
  • Sindhi: “تمل ناڊو”
  • Sinhala: “තමිල්නාඩු”
  • Sinhala: “තමිල්නාඩුව”
  • Slovak: “Tamilnádu”
  • Slovenian: “Tamil Nadu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تامیل نادو”
  • Spanish: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Spanish: “tierra de los tamiles”
  • Swahili: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Swedish: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Sylheti: “ꠔꠣꠝꠤꠟꠘꠣꠠꠥ”
  • Tagalog: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Tajik: “Иёлоти Тамилноду”
  • Tajik: “Тамилноду”
  • Tamil: “தமிழகம்”
  • Tamil: “தமிழ் நாடு”
  • Tamil: “தமிழ்நாடு”
  • Tatar: “Тамилнад”
  • Telugu: “తమిళనాడు”
  • Thai: “รัฐทมิฬนาฑู”
  • Tibetan: “ཏཱ་མིལ་ན་ཌུ།”
  • Tulu: “ತಮಿಳುನಾಡು”
  • Turkish: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Ukrainian: “Таміл-Наду”
  • Ukrainian: “Тамілнад”
  • Ukrainian: “Тамілнаду”
  • Urdu: “تامل ناڈو”
  • Urdu: “تمل ناڈو”
  • Uzbek: “Tamilnad”
  • Venetian: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Vietnamese: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tamil Nadu”
  • Welsh: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Western Panjabi: “تامل ناڈو”
  • Wu Chinese: “泰米尔纳德邦”
  • Yiddish: “טאמיל נאדו”
  • Yoruba: “Tamil Nadu”
  • Yue Chinese: “淡米爾納德邦”
  • “ma lili Taminalu”
  • “ma lili Taminatu”
  • “तमिलनाडु”

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