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Polichalur

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Place details

Locality
Tharapakkam
Region
Tamil Nadu
Country
India
Population
21,906

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Air quality

62US AQIModerate
PM2.5
12.0 µg/m³
PM10
18.2 µg/m³
As of 2026-08-10 10:30 · Open-Meteo

Key facts

Settlement.name
Pozhichalur
Settlement.settlement_type
neighbourhood
Settlement.pushpin_map
India Chennai
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_name
India
Settlement.subdivision_type1
State
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Tamil Nadu
Settlement.subdivision_type2
District
Settlement.subdivision_name2
Chengalpattu
Settlement.subdivision_type3
Metro
Settlement.subdivision_name3
Chennai
Settlement.subdivision_type4
City
Settlement.subdivision_name4
Tambaram
Settlement.unit_pref
Metric
Settlement.population_total
21906
Settlement.population_as_of
2011
Settlement.population_density_km2
auto
Settlement.demographics_type1
Languages

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

4 sections
Contents
  • Demographics
  • Airport expansion
  • References
  • External links

Pozhichalur (also commonly spelled as Polichalur) is a census town in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is a suburb of Chennai on the south bank of the Adyar River near the Chennai Airport and is served by Pallavaram Railway Station.

==Demographics== India census, Pozhichalur had a population of 21,906. Males constitute 50.4% of the population and females 49.5%. Pozhichalur has an average literacy rate of 80.4%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 84%, and female literacy is 73%. In Pozhichalur, 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Polichalur” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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