Mayiladuthurai (Taluk)

Taluk Mayiladuthurai ; மயிலாடுதுறை வட்டம்
State	Tamil Nadu
District :	Nagapattinam
Main town :	Mayiladuthurai
Residents :	259,634 (2011)

The Taluk Mayiladuthurai ( Tamil : மயிலாடுதுறை வட்டம் ) is a taluk ( sub- district) of the Nagapattinam district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu . The main town is the eponymous city Mayiladuthurai . The Taluk Mayiladuthurai has around 260,000 inhabitants.

geography

The Taluk Mayiladuthurai is located in the northern half of the Nagapattinam district in the eastern Kaveri Delta . The area of the Taluk is bounded in the north by the Kollidam , the northernmost estuary of the Kaveri River, and is traversed by several estuary branches of the Kaveri flowing in a west-east direction. From north to south these are the Manniyar and the Palavar , which unite in the Taluk Mayiladuthurai to the Uppanar , the Kaveri main arm, the Manjalar and the Veeracholan .

The Taluk Mayiladuthurai borders in the east on the Taluks Sirkali and Tharangambadi , in the south on the Taluk Kuthalam (all Nagapattinam district), in the west on the Taluk Thiruvidaimarudur ( district Thanjavur ) and in the north on the Taluk Kattumannarkoil ( district Cuddalore ).

population

According to the 2011 census, the Taluk Mayiladuthurai has 231,151 inhabitants. 36 percent of the population lives in cities, 64 percent in rural areas. 91 percent of the residents of the Taluk Mayiladuthurai are Hindus , 6 percent are Muslims and 3 percent are Christians . As in all of Tamil Nadu, the main language is Tamil, which is spoken by 99 percent of the population as their mother tongue according to the 2001 census.