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Within Vinony's link graph, Kanchipuram district is referenced by 1,195 other articles, and connects out to Tamil Nadu, Vijayanagara Empire and Pandya dynasty.
The entry is geolocated on the map.
It is catalogued under topics including 1997 establishments in Tamil Nadu, Districts of Tamil Nadu and Kanchipuram district.
Its subject is documented across 39 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Tamil Nadu
- Established
- 1 July 1997
- Founded by
- M. Karunanidhi
- Headquarters
- Kanchipuram
- Taluks
- Kancheepuram , Sriperumbudur , Uthiramerur , Walajabad , Kundrathur
- District collector
- Sneha D I.A.S
- Total
- 1,655.94 km (639.36 sq mi)
- Estimate 2020
- 2,468,391
- Density
- 704.374/km (1,824.32/sq mi)
- Official
- Tamil
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 631 501
- Telephone code
- 044
- Iso 3166 code
- ?
- Vehicle registration
- TN-21, TN-87
- Nominal gdp 2022 23
- ₹ 92,456.43 crore (US$11.76 billion)
- Coastline
- 0 kilometres (0 mi)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Tamil Nadu
- Capital
- Kanchipuram
- Population
- 3998252
- Area
- 4393
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Official website
- www.kanchi.nic.in
- Image
- Chitlapakkam lake.jpg
- Households
- 1006245
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- Commons category
- Kanchipuram district
- topic's main category
- Category:Kanchipuram district
- female population
- 1985294
- male population
- 2012958
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Kanchipuram district
- inception
- 1997-07-01
- urban population
- 2538336
- rural population
- 1459916
- literate population
- 3013382
- illiterate population
- 984870
- short name
- KCP
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P12749
- Anton Diabelli
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Kanchipuram district is one of the 38 districts in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. The area comprising the present day Kancheepuram district was earlier a part of Chingleput district. The original Chingleput district was split in 1997 into form the present day Kanchipuram and Tiruvallur districts.
On 18 July 2019, Chengalpattu district was carved out of Kanchipuram district, with suburbs from Chengalpet towards Chennai under the district headquarters in Chengalpet. The separation came into effect from 29 November which was done by former Chief Minister Mr. Edappadi K Palaniswami.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kanchipuram district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.