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Karaikal district - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 11°01′00″N 79°52′00″E / 11.01667°N 79.86667°E

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Karaikal district
District

Karaikal district Location of Puducherry's Karaikal district within Tamil Nadu Show map of Tamil Nadu Karaikal district Location of Karaikal district in India Show map of India
Coordinates: 11°01′00″N 79°52′00″E / 11.01667°N 79.86667°E / 11.01667; 79.86667
Country	India
Union Territory	Puducherry
District	Karaikal
Area ^[1]
• Total	161 km² (62 sq mi)
Population (2011)^[1]
• Total	200,222
• Density	1,200/km² (3,200/sq mi)
Languages
• Official	Tamil,^[2] English,^[2]
• Additional	French,^[3]
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	609 602
Telephone code	91 (0)4368
Vehicle registration	PY-02
Website	karaikal.gov.in

Karaikal district (French: District de Karikal) is one of the four districts of the Union Territory of Puducherry in India.

Geography

Karaikal district occupies an area of 160 square kilometres (62 sq mi).^[4]

Karaikal is a small coastal enclave of territory which was formerly part of French India. Together with the other former French enclaves of Pondicherry, Yanam, and Mahé, Karaikal forms the Union Territory of Puducherry. Karaikal is bounded on the North by Mayiladuthurai district, on the South by Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu state, on the west by Tiruvarur district (also belonging to Tamil Nadu), and on the East by the Bay of Bengal.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census Karaikal district has a population of 200,222,^[5] roughly equal to the nation of Samoa.^[6] This gives it a ranking of 589th in India (out of a total of 640).^[5] The district has a population density of 1,252 inhabitants per square kilometre (3,240/sq mi) .^[5] Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 17.29%.^[5] Karaikal has a sex ratio of 1048 females for every 1000 males,^[5] and a literacy rate of 87.83%.^[5]

Tamil is the principal language spoken and Tamils are the predominant linguistic group in the district.

Hindus formed the majority of the population at 83.41% of the population followed by Christians at 10.70%, Muslims at 6.46% and others at 0.12%.^[7]

Transportation

Air

The nearest airport is in Trichy (Tiruchirappalli). Karaikal Airport is a greenfield airport under construction. It will be the first airport in the country to be built entirely with private capital.^[8]^{[better source needed]}

Train

Karaikal railway station is a railway terminus, situated in the town of Karaikal in the Union Territory of Puducherry, India.^[9]

Port

Karaikal Port Private Limited (KPPL), a private port developed by the Chennai-based MARG Limited, became operational in April 2009. The port is located on the Eastern coast of India at keezhavanjore village in Karaikal District of Puducherry, around 300 km along the coast south of Chennai Port and around 360 km along the coast north of Tuticorin Port. The shoreline of the port is between 10° 50′ 56″ N and 10° 49′ 44″ N.^[10]

Educational institutions

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Karaikal district.

^ ^a ^b "Official website of Karaikal District, Puducherry UT". Archived from the original on 12 September 2016. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
^ ^a ^b "The Pondicherry Official Languages Act, 1965" (PDF). lawsofindia.org. Laws of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
^ Animesh Rai (2020). The Legacy of French Rule in India (1674-1954): An investigation of a process of Creolization. Institut français de Pondichéry. ISBN 9791036549892.
^ Srivastava, Dayawanti, ed. (2010). "States and Union Territories: Pondicherry: Government". India 2010: A Reference Annual (54th ed.). New Delhi, India: Additional Director General, Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India), Government of India. p. 1222. ISBN 978-81-230-1617-7.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "District Census 2011". Census2011.co.in. 2011. Retrieved 30 September 2011.
^ US Directorate of Intelligence. "Country Comparison:Population". Archived from the original on 13 June 2007. Retrieved 1 October 2011. Samoa 193,161
^ "New Page 1". Archived from the original on 16 July 2009. Retrieved 29 November 2009.
^ "Coimbatore firm to build India's first private airport in Karaikal". The Times of India. 13 March 2012. Archived from the original on 10 May 2013. Retrieved 3 July 2012.
^ "Nagore-Karaikal BG line inspection by September". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 8 July 2011.
^ http://www.karaikalport.com/

Places adjacent to Karaikal district

Mayiladuthurai district, Tamil Nadu (Northern)

Thiruvarur district, Tamil Nadu

Karaikal district

Bay of Bengal

Nagapattinam district, Tamil Nadu (Southern)

French overseas empire

Former

v t e Former French colonies in Africa and the Indian Ocean
North Africa	Algeria Morocco Tunisia
West Africa	Côte d'Ivoire Dahomey Sudan Guinea Mauritania Arguin Island Niger Senegal Four Communes Upper Volta Togoland James Island Albreda
Equatorial Africa	Chad Gabon Middle Congo Ubangi-Shari Cameroons
Comoros	Anjouan Grande Comore Mohéli
Somaliland (Djibouti) Madagascar Isle de France

v t e Former French colonies in the Americas
French North America	Acadia Louisiana Canada Terre Neuve French Florida French Texas
French Caribbean	Dominica Grenada The Grenadines Saint-Domingue Haïti, Dominican Republic Saint Kitts & Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent Tobago Virgin Islands
Equinoctial France	Berbice France Antarctique Inini
French colonization of the Americas French West India Company

v t e Former French colonies in Asia and Oceania
French India	Chandernagor Coromandel Coast Madras Mahé Pondichéry Karaikal Yanaon
Indochinese Union	Cambodia Laos Vietnam^[vi] Cochinchina Annam Tonkin Kouang-Tchéou-Wan
Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon	State of Syria Aleppo Damascus Alawite State Greater Lebanon Jabal al-Druze Sanjak of Alexandretta
Oceania	New Hebrides Vanuatu Port Louis-Philippe (Akaroa)
France–Asia relations French East India Company

Present

Overseas France

Inhabited territories

Overseas regions¹	French Guiana Guadeloupe Martinique Mayotte² Réunion
Overseas collectivities	French Polynesia Saint Barthélemy Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon Wallis and Futuna
Sui generis collectivity	New Caledonia

Uninhabited territories

North Pacific Ocean

Clipperton Island

Overseas territory (French Southern and Antarctic Lands)

Adélie Land Crozet Islands French domains of Saint Helena French domains of the Holy Land Kerguelen Islands Saint Paul and Amsterdam Islands
Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean	Bassas da India³ Europa Island³ Glorioso Islands^{2, 3} Banc du Geyser Juan de Nova Island³ Tromelin Island⁴

¹ Also known as overseas departments
² Claimed by the Comoros
³ Claimed by Madagascar
⁴ Claimed by Mauritius

Union territory of Puducherry

Capital: Pondicherry

Districts

Municipalities

Languages

Education

History

History of Puducherry

Places of interest

Transport

Rail	Puducherry Karaikal Mahe
Air	Puducherry Airport Karaikal Airport

Sports

v t e Proposed states and union territories of India
Central India	Baghelkhand (Madhya Pradesh/Uttar Pradesh) Bundelkhand (Madhya Pradesh/Uttar Pradesh) Gondwana (Chhattisgarh/Madhya Pradesh/Odisha) Mahakoshal (Madhya Pradesh) Malwa (Madhya Pradesh) Vindhya Pradesh (Madhya Pradesh)
East India	Bhojpur (Bihar/Uttar Pradesh) Gorkhaland (West Bengal) Kamtapur (West Bengal) Kosal (Odisha) Mithila (Bihar) Rarhbhumi (Odisha)
North India	Awadh Pradesh (Uttar Pradesh) Braj Pradesh (Uttar Pradesh) Delhi Harit Pradesh (Uttar Pradesh) Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) Kashmir (Jammu and Kashmir) Panun Kashmir (Jammu and Kashmir) Purvanchal (Uttar Pradesh)
Northeast India	Bodoland (Assam) Dimaraji (Assam/Nagaland) Garoland (Meghalaya) Karbi Anglong (Assam) Tipraland (Tripura)
South India	Karu Nadu (Karnataka) Kalyana-Karnataka (Karnataka) Kodagu (Karnataka) Kongu Nadu (Tamil Nadu) Karaikal (Puducherry) Malabar (Kerala) Rayalaseema (Andhra Pradesh) Tulu Nadu (Karnataka/Kerala)
West India	Khandesh (Maharashtra) Konkan (Goa/Karnataka/Maharashtra) Kutch (Gujarat) Marathwada (Maharashtra) Maru Pradesh (Rajasthan) Saurashtra (Gujarat) Vidarbha (Maharashtra)
Current states and union territories of India

Authority control databases
International	VIAF
National	United States

Geography

Demographics

Transportation

Educational institutions

See also

References