Thanjavur district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Tamil Nadu
- Municipal corporations
- Thanjavur , Kumbakonam
- Municipalities
- Pattukkottai , Adirampattinam , Thiruvaiyaru
- Largest city
- Thanjavur
- Founded by
- Raja Raja Chola I
- Headquarters
- Thanjavur
- Talukas
- Budalur , Kumbakonam , Orathanadu , Papanasam , Pattukkottai , Peravurani , Thanjavur , Thiruvaiyaru , Thiruvidaimarudur , Thiruvonam
- District collector
- Priyanka Pankajam, IAS
- Superintendent of police
- Sundaravathanam, IPS
- Total
- 2,405,890
- Official
- Tamil
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 613xxx
- Telephone code
- 04362,0435
- Iso 3166 code
- ISO 3166-2:IN
- Vehicle registration
- TN-49, TN-68
- Website
- thanjavur .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Official name
- Thanjavur
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Madras Presidency
- Capital
- Thanjavur
- Population
- 2405890
- Area
- 3396
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Nagapattinam
- Official website
- www.thanjavur.tn.nic.in
- Image
- Mudachikkadu2.JPG
- Households
- 605363
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- Commons category
- Thanjavur district
- topic's main category
- Category:Thanjavur district
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Thanjavur district
- postal code
- 613000–613999
- male population
- 1182416
- female population
- 1223474
- urban population
- 851359
- rural population
- 1554531
- literate population
- 1790998
- illiterate population
- 614892
- short name
- TJV
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Thanjavur district is one of the 38 districts of the state of Tamil Nadu, in southeastern India. Its headquarters is Thanjavur (Tanjore) . The district is located in the delta of the Cauvery River and is mostly agrarian.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thanjavur district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations