Hosur
Sign in to saveHosur is an industrial city located in the Tamil Nadu state of India. Hosur is one of the 21 municipal corporations in Tamil Nadu. It is located on the bank of the river River Ponnaiyar, southeast of Bengaluru and west of Chennai, the state capital. Hosur is home to major manufacturing industries including Stellantis, Ashok Leyland, Titan, TATA Electronics, TVS Motors, Caterpillar, Ather Energy, Schaeffler, and many others.
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Place details
- Locality
- Hosur
- Region
- Tamil Nadu
- Country
- India
- Population
- 229,528
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Hosur
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Hosur_City.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Skyline view of Hosur city
- Settlement.nicknames
- Little England, Flower City, Industrial City
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Tamil Nadu#India3
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Hosur (Tamil Nadu)
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- 23x16px|border|link=|alt=|Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Krishnagiri district
- Settlement.established_date
- 13 February 2019
- Settlement.demographics_type1
- Languages
- Settlement.demographics1_title1
- Official
- Settlement.demographics1_info1
- Tamil
- Settlement.demographics1_title2
- Regional
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Area
- 90
- Elevation
- 879
- Official website
- municipality.tn.gov.in/hosur
- Image
- Hosur City.JPG
- Dialing code
- 4344
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- Commons category
- Hosur
- postal code
- 635109
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Hosur is an industrial city located in the Tamil Nadu state of India. Hosur is one of the 21 municipal corporations in Tamil Nadu. It is located on the bank of the river River Ponnaiyar, southeast of Bengaluru and west of Chennai, the state capital. Hosur is home to major manufacturing industries including Stellantis, Ashok Leyland, Titan, TATA Electronics, TVS Motors, Caterpillar, Ather Energy, Schaeffler, and many others.
==History== left|thumb|200x200px|View of Chandra Choodeswarar Temple, Hosur in 1860 left|thumb|200x200px|British fort used during the Third Anglo-Mysore War
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