Chorode

Chorode
Chorode
	village
	Chorode Location in Kerala, India Chorode Chorode (India)
	Coordinates: 11°38′12″N75°34′56″E / 11.636560°N 75.582130°E Coordinates: 11°38′12″N75°34′56″E / 11.636560°N 75.582130°E
Country	India
State	Kerala
District	Kozhikode
Population (2001)
• Total	35,437
Languages
• Official	Malayalam, English
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	673106
Telephone code	0496
Vehicle registration	KL-
Nearest city	Vatakara
Literacy	100%
Lok Sabha constituency	Vatakara
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Vatakara
Climate	good (Köppen)

Last updated September 28, 2019

Chorode is a village in Kozhikode district in the state of Kerala, India.^[1]

Kozhikode District or Calicut district is a district of Kerala state, on the southwest coast of India. The city of Kozhikode, also known as Calicut, is the district headquarters. The district is 38.25% urbanised.

Kerala is a state on the southwestern Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions. Spread over 38,863 km² (15,005 sq mi), Kerala is the twenty-third largest Indian state by area. It is bordered by Karnataka to the north and northeast, Tamil Nadu to the east and south, and the Lakshadweep Sea to the west. With 33,387,677 inhabitants as per the 2011 Census, Kerala is the thirteenth-largest Indian state by population. It is divided into 14 districts with the capital being Thiruvananthapuram. Malayalam is the most widely spoken language and is also the official language of the state.

India is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.

Demographics

As of 2001^[update] India census, Chorode had a population of 35437 with 17019 males and 18418 females.^[1] This is situated nearly 3 km away from Vatakara town which is in Kozhikode district and around 18 km away from Thalassery town.

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include traditional culture, business, supplies, and traffic censuses. The United Nations defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as "individual enumeration, universality within a defined territory, simultaneity and defined periodicity", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every 10 years. United Nations recommendations also cover census topics to be collected, official definitions, classifications and other useful information to co-ordinate international practices.

Vatakara, also spelled Vadakara, is a coastal town in the Kozhikode district, state of Kerala, India. Spread over an area of 23.33 km², the municipality of Vadakara is bordered by Mahe in the north, and Payyoli towards the South. It is also the headquarters of Vatakara taluk, which consists of 22 panchayats. Historically, Vatakara has been known as Kadathanadu during the reign of Kolathiris and Zamorins, and later as part of North Malabar region of Malabar District in the state of Madras during British Raj. The historic Lokanarkavu temple, which is also famous through the Vadakkan Pattukal is situated in Vatakara.

Thalassery/TLY, formerly Tellicherry, is a city on the Malabar Coast in Kannur district, in the state of Kerala, India, bordered by the districts of Mahé (Pondicherry), Kozhikode, Wayanad, Kasaragod and Kodagu (Karnataka). Thalassery municipality has a population just under 100,000. Thalassery City has an area of 23.98 square kilometres (9.26 sq mi). It is 21 km south of the district headquarters in Kannur town. Thalassery is situated in an altitude ranging from 2.5 m to 30 m above mean sea-level.

Transportation

National Highway 17 (NH-17) is passing through chorode and there is an overbridge built for this road at its intersection with the railway track. Before the exisistance of the overbridge that locality was known as 'chorode gate' as there was a manned railway level crossing (i.e. railway gate).

Major Establishments/organizations

Rani Public School
Rani Food Products
Chennamangalam Temple
Ganapathi Temple (Theru)

Chennamangalam Temple is situated in Chorde Panchayat of Vatakara Taluka in Kozhikode District of Kerala, India.The main Pratishtha is Lord Ayyappa. However Lords Shiva, Ganesh, Vishnu and Annapurneshwari are also worshipped in this temple.

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References

1 2 "Census of India : Villages with population 5000 & above". Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Archived from the original on 8 December 2008. Retrieved 10 December 2008.

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Chorode
village
Chorode Location in Kerala, India Show map of Kerala Chorode Chorode (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 11°38′12″N75°34′56″E / 11.636560°N 75.582130°E / 11.636560; 75.582130 Coordinates: 11°38′12″N75°34′56″E / 11.636560°N 75.582130°E / 11.636560; 75.582130
Country	India
State	Kerala
District	Kozhikode
Population (2001)
• Total	35,437
Languages
• Official	Malayalam, English
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	673106
Telephone code	0496
Vehicle registration	KL-
Nearest city	Vatakara
Literacy	100%
Lok Sabha constituency	Vatakara
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Vatakara
Climate	good (Köppen)