Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Tamil Nadu
- Region
- Kongu Nadu
- Headquarters
- Namakkal
- Taluks
- Namakkal , Paramathi Velur , Rasipuram , Thiruchengode , Mohanur , Kolli Hills , Senthamangalam , Kumarapalayam
- District collector
- S. Uma, IAS
- Superintendent of police
- S. Rajesh Kannan, IPS
- Total
- 3,368.21 km (1,300.47 sq mi)
- Density
- 512.617/km (1,327.67/sq mi)
- Official
- Tamil
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 637xxx
- Telephone code
- 04286
- Iso 3166 code
- ISO 3166-2:IN
- Vehicle registration
- TN-28, TN-88, TN-34
- Nearest districts
- Salem , Trichy , Erode , Karur
- Central location
- 11°13′N 78°10′E / 11.217°N 78.167°E / 11.217; 78.167
- Website
- namakkal .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Tamil Nadu
- Capital
- Namakkal
- Population
- 1726601
- Area
- 3429
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Tiruchirappalli district
- Official website
- namakkal.nic.in
- Image
- Scenery2.JPG
- Households
- 475511
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- Commons category
- Namakkal district
- topic's main category
- Category:Namakkal district
- postal code
- 637000–637999
- male population
- 869280
- female population
- 857321
- urban population
- 696125
- rural population
- 1030476
- literate population
- 1176131
- illiterate population
- 550470
- short name
- NMK
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Encyclopedic overview
Namakkal district is one of the 38 districts (an administrative district) in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. The district was bifurcated from Salem District with Namakkal city as headquarters on 25 July 1996 and started to function independently from 1 January 1997. The district has eight taluks (subdivisions): Tiruchengode, Namakkal, Rasipuram, Paramathi Velur, Senthamangalam, Kumarapalayam, Kolli Hills and Mohanur. It has two revenue divisions: Tiruchengode and Namakkal. As of 2011 census, Namakkal district had a population of 1,726,601 with a sex-ratio of 986 females for every 1,000 males and Tiruchengode is the largest city in terms of population. Namakkal district is geographically affiliated to Kongu Nadu region. The district is famous for its large poultry industry, egg production and lorry bodybuilding industry, for which it is often referred to as "Egg City" and "Transport Hub of South India".
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Namakkal district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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