Agastheeswaram
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Place details
- Locality
- Agastheeswaram
- Region
- Tamil Nadu
- Country
- India
- Population
- 9,717
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Agastheeswaram
- Settlement.nickname
- Agasteeshwaram
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Taluk
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Tamil Nadu
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Tamil Nadu, India
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Tamil Nadu
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Kanniyakumari
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.population_total
- 8978
- Settlement.population_as_of
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Kanniyakumari district
- Area
- +2.55
- Elevation
- +11
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
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Article
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Travancore State Manual
- Kottaram
- Demographics
- Famous people from Agastheeswaram
- See also
- References
Agastheeswaram is a panchayat town in Kanniyakumari district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
==History== Agasteeswaram is named after Sage Agastya, who visited this place to teach the Ramayana. Most of the people from this village are well educated when compared with other districts in Tamil Nadu. Vivekanandha College is located in Agasteeswararam. Along with the talukas of Thovalai, Kalkulam, Eraniel and Vilavancode, Agasteeswaram was a part of the Padmanabhapuram division of the erstwhile Kingdom of Travancore until its union with Kochi in 1949 and continued to be a part of the state of Travancore–Cochin until November 1, 1956.