Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Tamil Nadu
- Region
- Pallava Nadu , Tondai Nadu
- Headquarters
- Tiruvallur
- Talukas
- Avadi , RK Pet , Ponneri , Gummidipoondi , Uthukottai , Tiruvallur , Poonamallee , Tiruttani , Pallipattu
- District collector
- M. Prathap, I.A.S
- Superintendent of police
- R. V. Varun Kumar, I.P.S
- Member of parliament
- Sasikanth Senthil (Congress–DMK Alliance)
- Total
- 3,423 km (1,322 sq mi)
- Density
- 795.0/km (2,059/sq mi)
- Official
- Tamil
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 602001.600XXX,601XXX,631XXX
- Telephone code
- 044
- Vehicle registration
- TN-12, 13, 18, 20.
- Per capita income 2022 23
- ₹ 430,950 (US$5,482.51)
- Largest metro
- Avadi
- Sex ratio
- 983 ♂ / ♀
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Madras Presidency
- Capital
- Tiruvallur
- Population
- 3728104
- Area
- 3424
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Chittoor district
- Official website
- www.tiruvallur.tn.nic.in
- Image
- India - Pulicat Lake - 023 - lake landscape.jpg
- Households
- 946949
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- Commons category
- Tiruvallur district
- topic's main category
- Category:Tiruvallur district
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Tiruvallur district
- male population
- 1876062
- female population
- 1852042
- urban population
- 2428395
- rural population
- 1299709
- literate population
- 2791721
- illiterate population
- 936383
- short name
- TRV
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Encyclopedic overview
Thiruvallur district, also spelled as Tiruvallur district, is one of the 38 districts (an administrative district) in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The fast developing city of Tiruvallur is the district headquarters. The district has a mixture of urban and rural characteristics. The eastern part of Tiruvallur district is dominated by urban characteristics while the Northern part of the district has influence of Andhra culture due to its position. In 2011, the district had a population of 3,728,104 with a sex-ratio of 987 females for every 1,000 males.
The district has been divided into three revenue divisions viz, Tiruvallur, Tiruttani and Ponneri. There are four taluks under Tiruvallur division, two under Tiruttani divisions and two under Ponneri division. There are 46 firkas and 820 revenue villages. Likewise there are 12 blocks, five municipalities and ten town panchayats which implement rural development activities.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tiruvallur district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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