Tenkasi
Tenkasi is a Municipality and headquarters of the Tenkasi district in Indian state of Tamil Nadu.Tenkasi is the third largest city in Tenkasi district after Kadayanallur and Sankarankovil.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 70,500 residents
- Description: Village in Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu, India
- Also known as: “Pavanasa puram” and “Tenkāsi”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kasi Viswanathar Temple, Tenkasi and Tenkasi Junction railway station.
Kasi Viswanathar Temple, Tenkasi
Hindu temple
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kasi Viswanathar Temple in Tenkasi, a city in Tenkasi district in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, is dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva. Constructed in the Tamil style of architecture, the temple is believed to have been built by Pandyan ruler Parakrama Pandyan during the 13th century, with later additions from Madurai Nayaks.
Tenkasi Junction railway station
Railway station
Tenkasi Junction railway station is an NSG–4 category Indian railway station in Madurai railway division of Southern Railway zone. It is a junction railway station serving the town of Tenkasi in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Tenkasi
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Tenkasi, Tenkasi district, Far Southern Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
8.9558° or 8° 57′ 21″ northLongitude
77.3073° or 77° 18′ 26″ eastPopulation
70,500Elevation
170 metres (558 feet)United Nations Location Code
IN TKSOpen location code
6JWVX844+8WOpenStreetMap ID
node 245582256OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Tenkasi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تينكاسي”
- Bengali: “টেঙ্কাসি”
- Bishnupriya: “তেনকাসি”
- Bulgarian: “Тхенкаси”
- Cebuano: “Thenkasi”
- Chinese: “坦卡希”
- Chinese: “滕卡西”
- Dutch: “Tenkasi”
- Fiji Hindi: “Tenkasi”
- French: “Tenkasi”
- German: “Tenkasi”
- Greek: “Τεκανσί”
- Gujarati: “તેનકાસી”
- Hindi: “तेंकाशी”
- Hindi: “तेनकाशी”
- Hindi: “तेन्कासी”
- Irish: “Tenkasi”
- Italian: “Tenkasi”
- Japanese: “テンカシ”
- Japanese: “テンカシ県”
- Kannada: “ತೆಂಕಾಶಿ”
- Kannada: “ತೆಂಕಾಸಿ”
- Kashmiri: “تینکاسی”
- Korean: “텐카시”
- Malagasy: “Tenkasi”
- Malay: “Tenkasi”
- Malayalam: “തെങ്കസി”
- Malayalam: “തെങ്കാശി”
- Marathi: “तेनकाशी”
- Nepali: “तेनकाशी”
- Oriya: “ତେଙ୍କାସି”
- Portuguese: “Tenkasi”
- Russian: “Тенкаси”
- Spanish: “Tenkasi”
- Swedish: “Thenkasi”
- Tamil: “தென்காசி”
- Telugu: “టెన్కాసి”
- Telugu: “తెన్కాశి”
- Urdu: “تینکاسی”
- Vietnamese: “Tenkasi”
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