Kumta
Sign in to saveKumta is a town and taluk in the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, India. It is one of the important stations along the Konkan Railway line running between Mumbai and Mangalore.
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Place details
- Locality
- Kumta
- Region
- Karnataka
- Country
- India
- Population
- 36,719
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Kumta
- Settlement.native_name
- ಕುಮಟಾ
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Aquifer Map of Kumta Taluk.pdf
- Settlement.image_caption
- Taluk Map of Kumta
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Karnataka
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Karnataka, India
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Karnataka
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Kanara
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Uttara Kannada
- Settlement.leader_title
- MLA
- Settlement.leader_name
- Dinakar Keshav Shetty
- Settlement.leader_title1
- Assistant Commissioner
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Uttara Kannada District
- Area
- 15.34
- Elevation
- 2
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Body of water
- Arabian Sea
- Shares border with
- Ankola
- Image
- Kumta-sunset.JPG
- Dialing code
- 8386
Show 3 more facts
- Commons category
- Kumta
- postal code
- 581343
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Transportation
- Road
- Rail
- See also
- References
- External links
Kumta is a town and taluk in the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, India. It is one of the important stations along the Konkan Railway line running between Mumbai and Mangalore.
The 36th Kannada Sahithya Sammelana was held in Kumta in 1956, under the presidency of V. Seetharamaiah.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kumta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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