Varkala
Varkala is a town in the Indian state of Kerala, about 50 km north of Thiruvananthapuram and is home of the popular Papanasam Beach. Also, the Samadhi of Kerala's saint Sree Narayana Guru is in this town, and has become a place of pilgrimage.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Theredmonkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Alexey Komarov, CC BY 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Varkala Sivagiri railway station.
Varkala Sivagiri railway station
Railway station
Varkala Sivagiri railway station is an NSG–3 category Indian railway station in Thiruvananthapuram railway division of Southern Railway zone. is a major railway station in Kerala serving the town of Varkala and northern areas of Thiruvananthapuram district.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Edava.
Edava
Photo: Anosaan, Public domain.
Edava is a panchayat in Varkala Taluk, which is the northernmost tip of Thiruvananthapuram district in the state of Kerala, India. Edava is located 5km north of Varkala, 21km south of port city Kollam and 44km north of capital city Thiruvananthapuram.
Varkala
- Type: Town with 50,000 residents
- Description: town
- Category: locality
- Location: Varkala, Thiruvananthapuram, Southern Travancore, Kerala, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
8.7342° or 8° 44′ 3″ northLongitude
76.7257° or 76° 43′ 33″ eastPopulation
50,000Elevation
48 metres (157 feet)Open location code
6JWRPPMG+M7OpenStreetMap ID
node 1185039574OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1253392Wikidata ID
Q1012951
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Varkala” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “وركلا”
- Armenian: “Վարկալա”
- Asturian: “Varkala”
- Belarusian: “Варкала”
- Bengali: “বারকল”
- Bishnupriya: “বারকল”
- Bulgarian: “Варкала”
- Cebuano: “Varkala”
- Chinese: “瓦尔卡拉”
- Chinese: “瓦爾卡拉”
- Dutch: “Varkala”
- Egyptian Arabic: “وركلا”
- Finnish: “Varkala”
- French: “Varkala”
- German: “Varkala”
- Hebrew: “ורקלה”
- Hindi: “वर्कला”
- Italian: “Varkala”
- Kannada: “ವರ್ಕಳಾ”
- Kashmiri: “ورکالا”
- Malagasy: “Varkala”
- Malay: “Varkala”
- Malayalam: “Varkala”
- Malayalam: “വർക്കല”
- Newari: “वर्कल्”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Varkala”
- Norwegian: “Varkala”
- Russian: “Варкала”
- Sanskrit: “वर्कले”
- Spanish: “Varkala”
- Swedish: “Varkala”
- Tamil: “வர்களா”
- Tamil: “வர்க்கலா”
- Tamil: “வர்க்கலை”
- Telugu: “వర్కాల”
- Ukrainian: “Варкала”
- Urdu: “ورکالا”
- Urdu: “ورکلا”
- Vietnamese: “Varkala”
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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 “Varkala”. Photo: Alexey Komarov, CC BY 3.0.