Tamil Nadu South Coast
Mayiladuthurai district
Tharangambadi

Tranquebar

Tranquebar is a small coastal town in 120 km south of the former French colony . Tharangambadi literally means the land of the singing waves.
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  • Type: Town with 23,200 residents
  • Description: town
  • Also known as: “Fort Dansborg”, “Taramgambadi”, “Tarangambādi”, and “Tharangambadi”

Tranquebar

Latitude
11.03° or 11° 1′ 48″ north
Longitude
79.8491° or 79° 50′ 57″ east
Population
23,200
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IN TRA
Open location code
7J3X2RHX+XM
Open­Street­Map ID
way 84886706
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1254904
Wiki­data ID
Q732594
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Western Panjabi—“Tranquebar” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Tharangambadi”
  • Bengali: “থরঙ্গামবদি”
  • Bishnupriya: “থারাঙ্গামবাড়ি”
  • Breton: “Tharangambadi”
  • Bulgarian: “Тхарангамбади”
  • Catalan: “Tranquebar”
  • Cebuano: “Tharangambadi”
  • Chinese: “Tharangambadi”
  • Chinese: “塔兰甘巴迪”
  • Chinese: “塔蘭甘巴迪”
  • Chinese: “特蘭奎巴”
  • Czech: “Tarangambadi”
  • Danish: “Tarangambadi”
  • Danish: “Trankebar”
  • Dutch: “Tharangambadi”
  • French: “Tharangambadi”
  • French: “Tranquebar”
  • German: “Tharangambadi”
  • Gujarati: “થારંગમબદી”
  • Hebrew: “טהאראנגמבאדי”
  • Hindi: “तरंगमबाड़ी”
  • Indonesian: “Tharangambadi”
  • Italian: “Tharangambadi”
  • Japanese: “タラガンバディー”
  • Japanese: “タランガンバディ”
  • Japanese: “トランケバール”
  • Kannada: “ತರಂಗಂಬಡಿ”
  • Kashmiri: “تھرنگامبدی”
  • Korean: “타랑가바디”
  • Korean: “타랑감바디”
  • Malagasy: “Tharangambadi”
  • Malay: “Tharangambadi”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tharangambadi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Trankebar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tharangambadi”
  • Norwegian: “Trankebar”
  • Panjabi: “ਥਰੰਗਾਮਬਦੀ”
  • Polish: “Tarangambadi”
  • Polish: “Tranguebar”
  • Portuguese: “Tharangambadi”
  • Russian: “Транкебар”
  • Spanish: “Tharangambadi”
  • Swedish: “Tharangambadi”
  • Swedish: “Tranquebar”
  • Tamil: “தரங்கம்பாடி”
  • Telugu: “తారగంబాడి”
  • Urdu: “تھرنگامبدی”
  • Vietnamese: “Tharangambadi”
  • Western Panjabi: “تھرنگامبدی”

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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 “Tranquebar”. Photo: Rangan Datta Wiki, CC BY-SA 4.0.