Hosakote, Kodagu Hosakote | |
|---|---|
village | |
  Hosakote, Kodagu Location in Karnataka, India  Hosakote, Kodagu Hosakote, Kodagu (India) | |
| Coordinates: 12°25′27″N75°52′02″E / 12.4243000°N 75.867317°E Coordinates: 12°25′27″N75°52′02″E / 12.4243000°N 75.867317°E | |
| Country |  |
| State | Karnataka |
| District | Kodagu |
| Talukas | Somavarapete |
| Government | |
| • Body | Village Panchayat |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Kannada |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| Nearest city | Kodagu |
| Civic agency | Village Panchayat |
Hosakote is a village in the southern state of Karnataka, India. [1] [2] It is located in the Somavarapete taluk of Kodagu district in Karnataka.
Karnataka is a state in the south western region of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act. Originally known as the State of Mysore, it was renamed Karnataka in 1973. The state corresponds to the Carnatic region. The capital and largest city is Bangalore (Bengaluru).
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.
Kodagu is an administrative district in Karnataka, India. Before 1956, it was an administratively separate Coorg State, at which point it was merged into an enlarged Mysore State. It occupies an area of 4,102 square kilometres (1,584 sq mi) in the Western Ghats of southwestern Karnataka. In 2001 its population was 548,561, 13.74% of which resided in the district's urban centres, making it the least populous of the 30 districts in Karnataka.
