Karaikudi
Sign in to saveKaraikudi is a city and municipal corporation in Sivaganga district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the largest city in the district, and the centre of the Karaikudi Metropolitan Area, that forms part of the Chettinad region.
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Place details
- Locality
- Karaikudi
- Region
- Tamil Nadu
- Country
- India
- Population
- 181,851
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Karaikudi
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipal corporation thumb|Karaikudi City Corporation Welcome Board
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Tamil Nadu
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, India.
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- India
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Tamil Nadu
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Sivaganga
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Chettinad
- Settlement.established_date
- 1801
- Settlement.named_for
- Karai plant
- Settlement.governing_body
- Karaikudi Municipal Corporation
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- S. Muthudurai (DMK)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Sivaganga district
- Population
- 106714
- Area
- 13.75
- Elevation
- 82
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Official website
- www.municipality.tn.gov.in/karaikudi
- Image
- Chettinad palace in Karaikudi.jpg
- Dialing code
- 4565
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- topic's main category
- Category:Karaikudi
- postal code
- 630001
- Commons category
- Karaikudi
- P12749
- Michaił Miasnikovič
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Encyclopedic overview
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Karaikudi is a city and municipal corporation in Sivaganga district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the largest city in the district, and the centre of the Karaikudi Metropolitan Area, that forms part of the Chettinad region.
Karaikudi is administered by the Karaikudi Municipal Corporation, which was established in 2024. It forms part of the Karaikudi Assembly constituency, which elects a member to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, and is a part of the Sivaganga Lok Sabha constituency, which elects its member to the Lok Sabha. It is one of the cities selected for development under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation project of the Government of India in 2015.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Karaikudi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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