Uzhavarkarai
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Uzhavarkarai () is a city, a municipality and a taluk in Puducherry district in the union territory of Puducherry. The enclaves of Kalapet and Alankuppam are parts of Uzhavarkarai municipality. Uzhavarkarai is also the only sub-taluk (firka) in Uzhavarkarai Taluk of Pondicherry district.
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Uzhavarkarai
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ta
- Settlement.other_name
- Oulgaret
- Settlement.settlement_type
- city
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Puducherry#India
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Puducherry, India
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Puducherry
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Pondicherry
- Settlement.government_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.governing_body
- Oulgaret Municipality உழவர்கரை நகராட்சி ''Municipalité d'Oulgaret''
- Settlement.leader_title
- Municipal Chairman
- Settlement.leader_name
- No elections conducted after 2011
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 36.7
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 3
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Puducherry district
- Official language
- Tamil
- Population
- 300104
- Elevation
- 3
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Image
- A long queue of female voters at a polling booth in Ozhukarai Constituency, during the Assembly Election in Puducherry on April 13, 2011.jpg
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- postal code
- 605010
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- Demographics
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Uzhavarkarai () is a city, a municipality and a taluk in Puducherry district in the union territory of Puducherry. The enclaves of Kalapet and Alankuppam are parts of Uzhavarkarai municipality. Uzhavarkarai is also the only sub-taluk (firka) in Uzhavarkarai Taluk of Pondicherry district.
==Demographics== India census, Uzhavarkarai had a population of 300,104. Males constitute 49.48% of the population and females 50.52%. Uzhavarkarai has an average literacy rate of 77%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 83%, and female literacy is 71%. In Uzhavarkarai, 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Uzhavarkarai” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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