Tiruvallur
| Tiruvallur திருவள்ளூர் |
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| State : | Tamil Nadu | ||
| District : | Tiruvallur | ||
| Sub-district : | Tiruvallur | ||
| Location : | 13 ° 9 ′ N , 79 ° 55 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 56,074 (2011) | ||
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Tiruvallur ( Tamil : திருவள்ளூர் Tiruvallur [ t̪iɾɯˌʋaɭːuːr ], also: Thiruvallur ) is a city in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu with around 56,000 inhabitants (2011 census). The city is the administrative seat of the Tiruvallur District .
Tiruvallur is located in northern Tamil Nadu around 45 kilometers west of the capital Chennai (Madras). It is 25 kilometers to the border of the neighboring state of Andhra Pradesh . The municipality of Tiruvallur covers an area of 10.75 square kilometers. The national highway NH 716 from Chennai to Tirupati and the railway line from Chennai to Bangalore run through Tiruvallur . Tiruvallur station is served by the western line of the Chennaier suburban railway.
The main attraction of Tiruvallur is the Viraraghavaswami Temple, dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu . This temple is one of the 108 Divya Desams or holy places of Tamil Vishnuism .
87 percent of the inhabitants of Tiruvallur are Hindus , 6 percent each are Christians and Muslims . The main language, as in all of Tamil Nadu, is Tamil , which is spoken by 82 percent of the population as their mother tongue. 12 percent speak Telugu , 3 percent Urdu and 1 percent Hindi .
literature
- The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Volume 23: Singhbhūm to Trashi-Chöd-Zong. New edition Clarendon Press, Oxford 1908, pp. 399–400 , keyword: Tiruvallūr Town .
Web links
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 .