Gudiyatham
| Gudiyatham குடியாத்தம் |
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| State : | Tamil Nadu | ||
| District : | Vellore | ||
| Sub-district : | Gudiyatham | ||
| Location : | 12 ° 56 ' N , 78 ° 52' E | ||
| Height : | 280 m | ||
| Residents : | 91,558 (2011) | ||
Gudiyatham ( Tamil : குடியாத்தம் Kuṭiyāttam [ ˈɡuɖijaːt̪ːʌm ], also Gudiyattam ) is a city in the Vellore district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu . Gudiyatham is the capital of the talk Gudiyatham . The population is around 92,000 (2011 census).
Gudiyatham is not far from the border with the neighboring state of Andhra Pradesh in northern Tamil Nadu, around 30 kilometers west of the district capital Vellore and 170 kilometers west of Chennai (Madras). The Goundanya River flows through Gudiyatham and flows into the Palar after a few kilometers . To the northwest of the city, on the border with Andhra Pradesh, there are densely forested foothills of the Eastern Ghats .
The national highway NH 234 runs through Gudiyatham from Mangalore to Viluppuram . Gudiyatham station is located five kilometers southeast of the city on the Chennai – Jolarpettai railway line .
82 percent of Gudiyatham's residents are Hindus , 17 percent Muslim and 1 percent Christian . As in all of Tamil Nadu, the main language is Tamil, which is spoken by 75 percent of the population as their mother tongue. 14 percent speak Urdu and 10 percent Telugu .
Individual evidence
- ^ Census of India 2011.
- ^ Census of India 2011: C-1 Population By Religious Community. Tamil Nadu.
- ↑ Census of India 2001: C-16 City: Population by Mother Tongue (Tamil Nadu), accessed under Tabulations Plan of Census Year - 2001 .