Virudhunagar district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Tamil Nadu
- Established
- 15 March 1985
- Administrative headquarters
- Virudhunagar
- Talukas
- Aruppukkottai , Kariapatti , Rajapalayam , Sattur , Sivakasi , Srivilliputhur , Tiruchuli , Vembakottai , Virudhunagar , Watrap
- Collector
- Dr N.O.Sukhaputra IAS
- Superintendent of police
- Thiru. Srinivasa Perumal, M.A., M.B.A, IPS
- Total
- 4,288 km (1,656 sq mi)
- Highest elevation
- 187 m (614 ft)
- Lowest elevation
- 69 m (226 ft)
- Density
- 453.0/km (1,173/sq mi)
- Official
- Tamil
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 626xxx
- Telephone code
- 04562
- Iso 3166 code
- [[ISO 3166-2:IN|]]
- Vehicle registration
- TN 67(Virudhunagar), TN 84(Srivilliputtur) TN 67W(Aruppukottai), TN 95(Sivakasi)
- Central location
- 9°35′N 77°57′E / 9.583°N 77.950°E / 9.583; 77.950
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Tamil Nadu
- Capital
- Virudhunagar
- Population
- 1942288
- Area
- 4283
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Idukki district
- Official website
- virudhunagar.nic.in
- Image
- Andal Temple.jpg
- Households
- 537748
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- Commons category
- Virudhunagar district
- topic's main category
- Category:Virudhunagar district
- male population
- 967709
- female population
- 974579
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Virudhunagar district
- urban population
- 980226
- rural population
- 962062
- literate population
- 1398788
- illiterate population
- 543500
- short name
- VIR
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Encyclopedic overview
Virudhunagar district is a district (an administrative district) of Tamil Nadu state in south India. Virudhunagar is the district headquarters of Virudhunagar district. Virudhunagar district was formed by the separation of Old Ramanathapuram District G.O passed on 08, March 1985 & formed in 15, March 1985 into Ramanathapuram District, Sivagangai District and the west part as Virudhunagar District. Virudhunagar District was formerly called Karmavirer Kamarajar District. As of 2011, Virudhunagar district had a population of 1,942,288 with a sex-ratio of 1,007 females for every 1,000 males. Sivakasi is the most populous and largest city in the district.
Demographics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Virudhunagar district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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