Yanam
| Yanam యానాం |
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| Union Territory : | Pondicherry | ||
| District : | Yanam | ||
| Location : | 16 ° 44 ' N , 82 ° 13' E | ||
| Area : | 30 km² | ||
| Residents : | 55,626 (2011) | ||
| Population density : | 1854 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Website : | yanam.gov.in | ||
Yanam ( Telugu : యానాం Yānām, French : Yanaon ) is a city in eastern India with around 56,000 inhabitants. The former French colony forms an exclave belonging to the Union Territory of Puducherry (Pondicherry) , which is surrounded by the state of Andhra Pradesh .
geography
Yanam is located 14 kilometers from the coast of the Bay of Bengal in the delta of the Godavari River at the point where the Koringa estuary branches off from the main arm of the Godavari. The administrative area of the municipality ( municipality ) is congruent with the district of Yanam and covers an area of 30 square kilometers. The area is completely surrounded by the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh state. Yanam forms next to Puducherry , Karaikal and Mahe one of four spatially separated districts of the union territory of Puducherry. The city of Puducherry , the capital of the Union Territory, is around 870 kilometers south of Yanam.
In Yanam there is an alternately humid tropical climate . The annual mean temperature is 27.8 ° C, the annual mean precipitation is 1,094 mm. Most of the rainfall occurs during the northeast monsoon between September and October. Rainfalls also occur during the southwest monsoon between July and August.
history
In 1723 the French East India Company established a trading post in Yanam. This was abandoned four years later, but occupied again in 1743. 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. Yanam, however, remained in French hands as one of five trading bases and became part of French India . During the coalition wars, Yanam was under British occupation between 1793 and 1802 and again from 1803 , before it was again assigned to France in 1815. In 1839, a cyclone wreaked havoc on Yanam. 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, Yanam has 55,626 inhabitants. This makes Yanam the second smallest of the four districts of the Union Territory of Puducherry and, with little more than four percent of the total population, has little demographic weight. Around 15 percent of the district's residents are members of the lower castes ( Scheduled Castes ). The literacy rate is 79 percent.
According to the 2011 census , Hindus make up the vast majority of the population of Yanam, at 96 percent. There are also small minorities of Muslims (2 percent) and Christians (around 1.5 percent). As in neighboring Andhra Pradesh , the predominant language is Telugu , which is spoken by 96 percent of the 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 .
literature
- The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Volume 24: Travancore to Zīra. New edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1908, pp. 413 f. , Keyword: Yanam .
