Tamil Nadu
Northern Tamil Nadu
Tiruvannamalai

Tiruvannamalai

Tiruvannamalai, also known as Arunachala, is one of the greatest Saivite shrines in Tamil Nadu, India, on a sprawling 24 acre temple campus, drawing hundreds of thousands of pilgrims every full moon.
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  • Type: Town with 145,000 residents
  • Description: city in Tamil Nadu, India
  • Also known as: “Thiruvannamalai”, “Tirruvannamalai”, “Tiruvaṇṇāmalai”, “Tiruvarunai”, “Trinomalee”, and “Trinomali”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Arunachalesvara Temple and Arunachala.

Hindu temple
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The or Annamalaiyar Temple, is a dedicated to Shiva and Parvati, located at the foothills of the hill in Tiruvannamalai, , India.

Peak
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is a hill in , , and one of the five main Shaiva holy places in South India. The to Shiva is located at the base of the hill.

Railway station
Photo: Gowtham Sampath, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an NSG–5 category Indian railway station in Tiruchirappalli railway division of Southern Railway zone. It is a station of the Indian Railways system, station code TNM.

Tiruvannamalai

Latitude
12.2343° or 12° 14′ 4″ north
Longitude
79.0762° or 79° 4′ 34″ east
Population
145,000
Elevation
174 metres (571 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IN TVI
Open location code
7J4X63MG+PF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245603915
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1254327
Wiki­data ID
Q162830
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Tiruvannamalai” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تيروفانامالاي”
  • Bengali: “তিরুবন্নামলৈ”
  • Bengali: “তিরুবন্নামালাই”
  • Bhojpuri: “तिरुवन्नामलै”
  • Bishnupriya: “তিরুবান্নামালাই”
  • Cebuano: “Tiruvannāmalai”
  • Chinese: “提魯凡納馬拉”
  • Chinese: “提鲁凡纳马拉”
  • Chinese: “蒂鲁瓦纳马莱”
  • Dutch: “Tiruvannaamalai”
  • Esperanto: “Tiruvannamalai”
  • Estonian: “Tiruvannāmalai”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Tiruvannamalai”
  • French: “Thiruvanamalaï”
  • French: “Tiruvannamalai”
  • German: “Tiruvannamalai”
  • Gujarati: “તિરુવન્નામલાઈ”
  • Hebrew: “טירובאנאמאלי”
  • Hebrew: “טירובאנמלאי”
  • Hindi: “तिरुवन्नमलई”
  • Hindi: “तिरुवन्नमलै”
  • Hindi: “तिरुवन्नामलई”
  • Hungarian: “Tiruvannámalaj”
  • Italian: “Tiruvannamalai”
  • Japanese: “ティルヴァンナーマライ”
  • Kannada: “ತಿರುವಣ್ಣಾಮಲೈ”
  • Kashmiri: “ترونامالایی”
  • Korean: “티루바나말라이”
  • Korean: “티루반나말라이”
  • Lithuanian: “Tiruvanamalajus”
  • Malagasy: “Tiruvannamalai”
  • Malay: “Thiruvannamalai”
  • Malay: “Tiruvannamalai”
  • Malayalam: “തിരുവണ്ണാമലൈ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tiruvannaamalai”
  • Norwegian: “Tiruvannamalai”
  • Persian: “ترون‌ناملائی”
  • Polish: “Tiruvannamalai”
  • Portuguese: “Tiruvannaamalai”
  • Russian: “Тируваннамалай”
  • Sanskrit: “तिरुवण्णामलै”
  • Spanish: “Thiruvannamalai”
  • Spanish: “Tiruvannamalai”
  • Swedish: “Tiruvannamalai”
  • Tamil: “திருவண்ணாமலை”
  • Telugu: “తిరువణ్ణామలై”
  • Urdu: “ترونامالائی”
  • Urdu: “تروون ملئی”
  • Vietnamese: “Tiruvannamalai”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tiruvannamalai”
  • “तिरुवन्नामलै”

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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 “Tiruvannamalai”. Photo: Argenberg, CC BY 4.0.