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Vinony's link graph records 445 inbound references to Karaikal, and connects out to Pondicherry, National Institute of Technology, Puducherry and municipality.
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 3 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Cities and towns in Karaikal district, Karaikal and Port cities and towns in India.
Vinony links it to 36 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Karaikal
- Settlement.other_name
- Karikal
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Karaikal District in India along with the other districts of Pondicherry
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Tamil Nadu
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Karaikal in Tamil Nadu, India
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- India
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Union territory
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Puducherry
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Karaikal
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Tamil Nadu
- Settlement.government_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.governing_body
- Karaikal Municipality()
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Karaikal district
- Elevation
- 0
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Capital of
- Karaikal district
- Official website
- karaikal.gov.in
- Image
- Karaikal French house.JPG
- Dialing code
- 4368
Show 5 more facts
- exclave of
- Puducherry
- Commons category
- Karaikal
- postal code
- 609602
- topic's main category
- Category:Karaikal
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Geography
- Climate
- Governance
- Demographics
- Culture
- Economy
- Transport
- Airways
- Seaways
- Roadways
- Railways
- Education
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- External links
Karaikal (, , /kaʁikal/) is a port city of the Indian Union Territory of Puducherry. It is the administrative headquarters of the Karaikal District and the second most populated town in the Union Territory after Pondicherry. Located on the Coromandel Coast of Bay of Bengal in South India, it is situated at the center of a coastal enclave surrounded by the state of Tamil Nadu and its Cauvery delta districts (Mayiladuthurai, Tiruvarur and Nagapattinam).
==Etymology==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Karaikal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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On the map
3 mapped locations