Pudukkottai district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Tamil Nadu
- District
- Pudukkottai
- City corporations
- Pudukkottai
- Pudukkottai
- 14 January 1974
- Headquarters
- Pudukkottai
- Talukas
- Pudukkottai , Aranthangi , Alangudi , Karambakudi , Thirumayam , Ponnamaravathi , Gandarvakottai , Avudaiyarkoil , Manamelkudi , Kulathur , Iluppur , Viralimalai .
- District collector district magistrate
- Mrs. M.Aruna, IAS
- Superintendent of police
- Vanditha Pandey, IPS
- Total
- 4,663 km (1,800 sq mi)
- Density
- 347.1/km (898.9/sq mi)
- Official
- Tamil
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 621xxx, 622xxx, 614xxx, 613xxx
- Telephone code
- 04322
- Iso 3166 code
- [[ISO 3166-2:IN|]]
- Vehicle registration
- TN-55
- Coastline
- 42 kilometres (26 mi)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Tamil Nadu
- Capital
- Pudukkottai
- Population
- 1618345
- Area
- 4651
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Sivaganga district
- Official website
- pudukkottai.nic.in
- Image
- Pudukottai palace.jpeg
- Households
- 387679
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- Commons category
- Pudukkottai district
- topic's main category
- Category:Pudukkottai district
- male population
- 803188
- female population
- 815157
- urban population
- 316354
- rural population
- 1301991
- literate population
- 1110545
- illiterate population
- 507800
- short name
- PDK
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Pudukkottai district is one of the 38 districts of Tamil Nadu state in southern India. The city of Pudukkottai is the district headquarters. It is also known colloquially as Pudhugai. The city is also known as Thondaiman Pudukkottai.
Pudukkottai district is bounded on the northeast and east by Thanjavur District, on the southeast by the Palk Strait, on the southwest by Ramanathapuram and Sivaganga districts, and on the west and northwest by Tiruchirapalli District. As of 2011, the district had a population of 1,618,345 with a sex-ratio of 1,015 females for every 1,000 males.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pudukkottai district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.