Kilkulam

Kilkulam
Kilkulam; Keezhkulam
	town
	Kilkulam Location in Tamil Nadu, India
	Coordinates: 8°19′23″N77°12′03″E / 8.32306°N 77.20083°E Coordinates: 8°19′23″N77°12′03″E / 8.32306°N 77.20083°E
Country	India
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Kanniyakumari
Population (2001)
• Total	17,352
Languages
• Official	Tamil
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)

Last updated April 14, 2019

Keezhkulam is a panchayat town in Kanniyakumari district in the India state of Tamil Nadu.

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.

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.

Demographics

As of the 2001 India census,^[1] Keezhkulam is shown to have a population of 17,352 with 51% of the population male and 49% female.

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include agriculture, business, 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 practice.

According to the information gathered in 2001, Keezhkulam had an average literacy rate of 79%, which is higher than the Indian national average of 59.5%. Male literacy was at 79% and female literacy was at 72%. Also according to the census, 11% of the population was under 6 years of age.

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References

↑ "Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)". Census Commission of India. Archived from the original on 2004-06-16. Retrieved 2008-11-01.

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[1] "Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)". Census Commission of India. Archived from the original on 2004-06-16. Retrieved 2008-11-01.

Kilkulam Keezhkulam
town
Kilkulam Location in Tamil Nadu, India
Coordinates: 8°19′23″N77°12′03″E / 8.32306°N 77.20083°E / 8.32306; 77.20083 Coordinates: 8°19′23″N77°12′03″E / 8.32306°N 77.20083°E / 8.32306; 77.20083
Country	India
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Kanniyakumari
Population (2001)
• Total	17,352
Languages
• Official	Tamil
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)