Tambaram
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| State : | Tamil Nadu | ||
| District : | Kanchipuram | ||
| Sub-district : | Tambaram | ||
| Location : | 12 ° 56 ' N , 80 ° 7' E | ||
| Height : | 33 m | ||
| Residents : | 174,787 (2011) | ||
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Tambaram ( Tamil : தாம்பரம் Tāmparam [ ˈt̪aːmbəɾʌm ]) is a city in the suburbs of Chennai (Madras), the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu . The population is around 175,000 (2011 census).
Tambaram is located around 25 kilometers southwest of downtown Chennai and nine kilometers southwest of Chennai Airport in the hinterland of the coast of the Bay of Bengal . The city is the capital of the Taluk Tambaram in the Kanchipuram district and is part of the Chennai metropolitan area .
Tambaram is the most important traffic junction in the southern suburbs of Chennais. The southwestern national trunk road NH 45 ( Grand Southern Trunk Road ), one of the main arterial roads in Chennai, runs through Tambaram. In addition, the city is on the southwestern line of Chennaier suburban railway ( Chennai Suburban Railway connected) to the city center. In the medium term, Tambaram station is to be expanded for long-distance traffic in order to relieve the two main stations in the city center, Chennai Central and Chennai Egmore . After that, Tambaram station would serve the long-distance trains going south. Tambaram is also an important hub for bus traffic, but it suffers from the lack of an adequate bus station.
Founded in 1837, Madras Christian College , one of the oldest colleges in Chennai, has been in Tambaram since 1937. In 1938 a world mission conference was held in Tambaram.
Tambaram is also the location of an Indian Air Force base .
80 percent of Tambaram's population are Hindus , 12 percent are Christians and 7 percent are Muslim . As in all of Tamil Nadu, the main language is Tamil, which is spoken by 83 percent of the population as their mother tongue. 9 percent speak Telugu , 3 percent Malayalam , 2 percent each Hindi and Urdu and 1 percent Kannada .
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Individual evidence
- ^ Census of India 2011.
- ^ The Hindu, March 25, 2012: "Work on to make Tambaram third hub of passenger rail traffic".
- ↑ The Hindu, May 10, 2012: "A 15-year-old dream remains unfulfilled for Tambaram".
- ↑ Schlunk, Martin (ed.): The miracle of the church among the peoples of the earth. Report on the World Mission Conference in Tambaram (South India) 1938 , Stuttgart / Basel 1939; DNB 578443724
- ^ 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 .