Key facts
- Country
- India
- Region
- Puducherry
- District
- Mahé
- Type
- Municipality
- Body
- Mahé Municipality , (Mairie de Mahé)
- Total
- 10 km (3.9 sq mi)
- Density
- 4,646/km (12,030/sq mi)
- Official
- Malayalam
- Additional
- English , French
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 673 310
- Telephone code
- 91 (0) 490
- Vehicle registration
- PY-03
- Sex ratio
- 1,000 ♂ /1,184 ♀
- Literacy
- 97.87%
- Climate
- Tropical monsoon climate ( Köppen )
- Website
- mahe .gov .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Official name
- മാഹി
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Kannur district
- Population
- 36828
- Area
- 9
- Elevation
- 0
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Capital of
- Mahé district
- Shares border with
- Kannur district
- Official website
- mahe.gov.in
- Image
- Mahe Boat House.jpg
- Dialing code
- 0490
- Licence plate code
- PY-03
Show 4 more facts
- Commons category
- Mahé, India
- exclave of
- Puducherry
- postal code
- 673310
- native label
- മാഹി
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Mahé ( English: /mɑːˈheɪ, ˈmɑːhiː/, French: [mɑˈe]), also known as Mayyazhi (Malayalam: [mɐjːɐɻi]), is a municipality and small town in the Mahe district of the Puducherry Union Territory. It is situated at the mouth of the Mahe River and is surrounded by the State of Kerala. The district of Kannur surrounds Mahe on three sides and Kozhikode district on one side.
Formerly part of French India, Mahe now forms a municipality in Mahe district, one of the four districts of the Union Territory of Puducherry. Mahe has one representative in the Puducherry Legislative Assembly.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mahé” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.