Ariyalur district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Tamil Nadu
- Headquarters
- Ariyalur
- Taluks
- Ariyalur , Sendurai , Udayarpalayam , Andimadam
- District collector
- P. Rathinasamy, IAS
- Superintendent of police
- Vishwesh Balasubramaniam Shastri, IPS.
- Total
- 1,949.31 km (752.63 sq mi)
- Density
- 387.262/km (1,003.00/sq mi)
- Official
- Tamil
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Vehicle registration
- TN 61
- Website
- ariyalur .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Tamil Nadu
- Capital
- Ariyalur
- Population
- 754894
- Area
- 1949.31
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Perambalur district
- Official website
- www.ariyalur.tn.nic.in
- Image
- Ranga Mandapam Ruins, Gangaikonda Cholapuram.jpg
- Households
- 197090
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- Category:Ariyalur district
- Commons category
- Ariyalur district
- short name
- ARI
- male population
- 374703
- female population
- 380191
- urban population
- 83794
- rural population
- 671100
- literate population
- 480604
- illiterate population
- 274290
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Encyclopedic overview
Ariyalur district is an administrative district, one of the 38 districts in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. The district headquarters is located at Ariyalur. The district encompasses an area of 1,949.31 km.
Gangaikonda Cholapuram, built by King Rajendra Chola of Chola Empire, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site situated in this district. The district is also known for its rich prehistoric fossils. Many fossils of gigantic molluscs and jawed fishes, at least one fossilized dinosaur egg, and several fragmentary fossils of sauropod and theropod dinosaurs have been discovered here. An on-site museum is being set up at Keelapazhur to preserve and conserve fossils. Ariyalur is noted for its cement industries and Jayankondam has huge reserves of lignite.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ariyalur district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.