Thekkady
Thekkady is the location of the Periyar National Park. Kumily is the nearest town centre to Thekkady.- Type: Village with 5,000 residents
- Description: town in Idukki district, Kerala, India
- Also known as: “Kumily”, “Thekadi”, and “Thekkadi”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kumily.
Kumily
Kumily is a town in Kerala State in South India. It is in the Cardamom Hills near Thekkady and the Periyar Tiger Reserve, in the Idukki District.Thekkady
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Peerumade, Idukki district, Northern Travancore, Kerala, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
9.5805° or 9° 34′ 50″ north
Longitude
77.1811° or 77° 10′ 52″ east
Population
5,000
Elevation
922 metres (3,025 feet)
Open location code
6JXVH5JJ+6F
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Urdu—“Thekkady” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Thekkady”
- Irish: “Thekkady”
- Kannada: “ತೇಕ್ಕಡಿ”
- Malayalam: “Thekkady”
- Malayalam: “തേക്കടി”
- Panjabi: “ਤੇਕੜੀ”
- Sanskrit: “तेकडी- अभयारण्यम्”
- Sanskrit: “तेकडी”
- Tamil: “தேக்கடி”
- Urdu: “تیکاڈی”
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