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
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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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