Kattur, Thiruvarur district

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Kattur is a small village in Tiruvarur district, Tamil Nadu, India. This village is a part of the Cauvery Delta region and agriculture is its major occupation. Vennar and Vettar, tributaries of the Cauvery River, are the major water bodies around the village. The village comes under Kattur Panchayath. It is located 3 km north of the district headquarters of Tiruvarur and 313 km from Chennai. The Central University of Tamil Nadu and Thiruvarur Medical College are nearby in Kattur. The Sivan Temple and Kaliamman Temple are located here.

Tiruvarur district District in Tamil Nadu, India

Thiruvarur district is one of the 33 districts in the Tamil Nadu state of India. The district occupies an area of 2161 km². It lies between Nagapattinam district on the east and Thanjavur District on the west, and is bounded by the Palk Strait on the south. The district headquarters is at Thiruvarur town. As of 2011, the district had a population of 1,264,277 with a sex-ratio of 1,017 females for every 1,000 males.

Tamil Nadu State in Southern 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 Country in South Asia

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