Tenkasi
Tenkasi district is one of the 38 districts of Tamil Nadu, India, separated from Tirunelveli district on 22 November 2019. The Government of Tamil Nadu announced its creation on 18 July 2019. The district headquarters is at Tenkasi.Photo: Jeya2lakshmi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Courtallam and Tenkasi.
Courtallam
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Courtallam, natively spelt Kutrālam or Kuttālam, is a panchayat town situated at a mean elevation of 160 m in the foothills of the Western Ghats in Tenkasi district of Tamil Nadu, India. The Coutrallam Falls on the Chittar River is a major tourist attraction.
Tenkasi
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Tenkasi, literally the "Kashi of the South", is a small picturesque town located near the famous waterfalls of Courtalam in India.
Surandai
Surandai is a town with a population of around 35,000 in the Tenkasi district of Tamil Nadu.Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Sankarankoil and Puliangudi.
Sankarankoil
Sankarankovil is a town in the Tenkasi district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located on the eastern slopes of Western Ghats. The town houses the Sankara Narayanasamy Temple. Sankarankovil is also largest town in Tenkasi district.Puliangudi
Puliangudi is a city in Tenkasi District on the NH 208 highway connecting Thirumangalam with Kollam in Kerala. Located on the foothills of the Western ghats, is one of the fast emerging options as a base for the Sankaran Kovil-Courtallam tourist circuit midway between the two.Tenkasi
- Type: district of India with 1,420,000 residents
- Description: district in Tamil Nadu, India
- Also known as: “Tenkasi district”
- Neighbors: Pathanamthitta and Tirunelveli
- Location: Far Southern Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
Population
1,420,000Wikidata ID
Q75094121
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Urdu—“Tenkasi” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “তেনকাশী জেলা”
- Dutch: “Tenkasi district”
- French: “District de Tenkasi”
- German: “Tenkasi (Distrikt)”
- German: “Tenkasi”
- Gujarati: “તેન્કાસી જિલ્લો”
- Hindi: “तेन्कासी ज़िला”
- Japanese: “テンカシ県”
- Kashmiri: “تینکاسی ضِلہٕ”
- Malayalam: “തെങ്കാശി ജില്ല”
- Marathi: “तेनकाशी जिल्हा”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Districte de Tenkasi”
- Persian: “بخش تنکاسی”
- Russian: “Тенкаси”
- Santali: “ᱛᱮᱱᱠᱟᱥᱤ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
- Tamil: “தென்காசி மாவட்டம்”
- Telugu: “తెన్కాశి జిల్లా”
- Urdu: “ضلع تینکاسی”
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