Edaikodu Edaicode | |
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city | |
  Edaikodu Location in Tamil Nadu, India | |
| Coordinates: 8°23′12″N77°12′02″E / 8.38667°N 77.20056°E Coordinates: 8°23′12″N77°12′02″E / 8.38667°N 77.20056°E | |
| Country |  |
| State | Tamil Nadu |
| District | Kanniyakumari |
| Population (2001) | |
| • Total | 23,320 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Tamil Malayalam |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
Edaicode is a panchayat town in Kanniyakumari district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.
Tamil Nadu is one of the 29 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian subcontinent and is bordered by the union territory of Puducherry and the South Indian states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh. It is bounded by the Eastern Ghats on the north, by the Nilgiri Mountains, the Meghamalai Hills, and Kerala on the west, by the Bay of Bengal in the east, by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait on the southeast, and by the Indian Ocean on the south. The state shares a maritime border with the nation of Sri Lanka.
India, also known as the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh largest country by area and with more than 1.3 billion people, it is the second most populous country as well as 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 northeast; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, while its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.
