Mahe (India)
| Mahe മാഹി |
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| Union Territory : | Pondicherry | ||
| District : | Mahe | ||
| Location : | 11 ° 42 ' N , 75 ° 32' E | ||
| Area : | 9 km² | ||
| Residents : | 41,816 (2011) | ||
| Population density : | 4646 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Website : | mahe.gov.in | ||
Mahe ( Malayalam : മാഹി Māhi [ ˈmɑːɦi ]; also: Mayyazhi , Malayalam: മയ്യഴി Mayyaḻi [ ˈmajːəɻi ], French Mahé ) is a city on the southwest coast of India with around 42,000 inhabitants. The former French colony forms an exclave belonging to the Union Territory of Puducherry (Pondicherry) , which is surrounded by the state of Kerala .
geography
Mahe is located on the Malabar Coast about 55 kilometers north of Kozhikode (Calicut) at the mouth of the Mayyazhipuzha River in the Arabian Sea . The city has an area of nine square kilometers and is congruent with the district of Mahe, which, along with Puducherry , Karaikal and Yanam, forms one of four spatially separated districts of the Union territory of Puducherry. The city of Puducherry , the capital of the Union Territory, is 630 kilometers east of Mahe on the east coast of India. Mahe is completely enclosed by the Kannur district belonging to Kerala .
A tropical monsoon climate prevails in Mahe . The annual mean temperature is 27.3 ° C, the annual mean precipitation is 3557 mm. Most rainfall occurs during the southwest monsoon between June and August.
history
In 1721 the French East India Company established a trading post at the mouth of the Mayyazhipuzha River. The French came into conflict with the local rulers of Badagara and had to withdraw from Mahe in the meantime before they could recapture the place in 1724. Bertrand François Mahé de La Bourdonnais distinguished himself in such a way that he was nicknamed Mahé . As a result of the Seven Years' War , France had to surrender most of its possessions in India to Great Britain in the Peace of Paris in 1763. But Mahe remained in French hands as one of five trading bases and became part of French India . After India gained independence in 1947, it annexed the French colonies in 1954. The treaty in which France ceded its colonies to India was signed in 1956, but only came into force de jure in 1962 after ratification by the French parliament . The following year the Union Territory of Puducherry was founded.
population
According to the 2011 Indian census, Mahe has 41,716 inhabitants. Mahe is the smallest of the four districts of the Union Territory of Puducherry and, with little more than three percent of the total population, has little demographic weight. Around 3.5 percent of the district's residents are members of the lower castes ( Scheduled Castes ). The literacy rate is extremely high at 98 percent.
According to the 2011 census, the majority of Mahes residents are Hindus (67 percent) and Muslims (31 percent). Christians form a small minority at just over 2 percent. The predominant language, like in neighboring Kerala, is Malayalam , which is spoken by almost 98 percent of the district's population as their mother tongue. It also serves as the official language at the district level.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Census of India 2011: Primary Census Abstract - Puducherry.
- ↑ Climate data from climate-data.org .
- ^ Census of India 2011: C-1 Population By Religious Community. Pondicherry.
- ↑ Census of India 2001: C-16: Population by Mother Tongue (Pondicherry), accessed under Tabulations Plan of Census Year - 2001 .
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