Central Tamil Nadu
Salem district
Yercaud

Yercaud

Yercaud is a hill station at an altitude of 1515 metres altitude in the state of in .
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  • Type: Town with 11,600 residents
  • Description: hill station in Salem District, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Also known as: “Jewel of the South”

Yercaud

Latitude
11.7852° or 11° 47′ 7″ north
Longitude
78.2075° or 78° 12′ 27″ east
Population
11,600
Elevation
1,414 metres (4,639 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IN YCD
Open location code
7J3WQ6P5+32
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245598638
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1252734
Wiki­data ID
Q9878
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Urdu—“Yercaud” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Yercaud”
  • Cebuano: “Yercaud”
  • Dutch: “Yercaud”
  • French: “Yercaud”
  • German: “Yercaud”
  • Gujarati: “યેરકાડ”
  • Hindi: “यरकौड”
  • Italian: “Yercaud”
  • Japanese: “エルカードゥ”
  • Kannada: “ಏರ್ಕಾಡು”
  • Kannada: “ಯೆರ್ಕಾಡ್”
  • Malayalam: “യേർക്കാട്”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Yercaud”
  • Panjabi: “ਯਰਕੌਡ”
  • Sanskrit: “यर्कार्ड्”
  • Sanskrit: “येरकौड”
  • Spanish: “Yercaud”
  • Swedish: “Yercaud”
  • Tamil: “ஏற்காடு”
  • Telugu: “యేర్కాడ్”
  • Urdu: “ایرکاڈ”
  • Urdu: “یرکود”

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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 “Yercaud”. Photo: Swarthika Palanisamy, CC BY-SA 4.0.