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Salem district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Tamil Nadu
- Municipal corporation
- Salem City Municipal Corporation
- Largest city
- Salem
- Municipalities
- Attur Mettur Edappadi Narasingapuram Tharamangalam Edaganasalai Sangagiri
- Headquarters
- Salem
- Taluks
- Attur , Gangavalli , Idappadi , Kadayampatti, Mettur , Omalur , Pethanaicken palayam taluk , Salem , Salem South , Salem West , Sangagiri , Vazhapadi , Yercaud , Thalaivasal
- Type
- District
- Body
- Salem District Collectorate
- District collector
- Dr. R. Brindha Devi, IAS
- Superintendent of police
- Sh. GAUTAM GOYAL, IPS
- Total
- 5,245 km (2,025 sq mi)
- Density
- 663.9/km (1,719/sq mi)
- Official
- Tamil
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 636xxx
- Telephone code
- 0427
- Iso 3166 code
- [[ISO 3166-2:IN|]]
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Madras Presidency
- Capital
- Salem
- Population
- 3482056
- Area
- 5219
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Namakkal district
- Official website
- salem.nic.in
- Image
- Salem Seelanaickenpati.jpg
- Households
- 915967
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- topic's main category
- Category:Salem district
- Commons category
- Salem district
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Salem district
- postal code
- 636000–636999
- male population
- 1781571
- female population
- 1700485
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- urban population
- 1774122
- rural population
- 1707934
- literate population
- 2285562
- illiterate population
- 1196494
- short name
- SLM
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Encyclopedic overview
Salem district is one of the 38 districts of Tamil Nadu state in southern India. The district is now divided into Dharmapuri, Krishnagiri, Namakkal as individual districts. Salem is the district headquarters and other major towns in the district include Mettur, Tharamangalam, Thammampatti, Attur, Omalur, Sangagiri and Edappadi. That Salem dates to at least two thousand years ago is evident from the discovery of silver coins from the Roman Emperor Nero (37–68 CE) found by Koneripatti of Salem in 1987. It was ruled by Mazhavar King Kolli Mazhavan and kings Adhiyaman and Valvil Ori of Sangam age. It is part of Mazhanadu, a vast region that dates to the second century BCE. Salem was the largest district of Tamil Nadu. It was bifurcated into Salem and Dharmapuri districts in 1965 and Namakkal district in 1997. Now Salem has been developed a lot by building many bridges and is considered to be the Smart city. Salem is famous for cultivating mangoes.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Salem district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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