Kurumbapapperi

Kurumbapapperi
Kurumbapapperi
	Village
Country	India
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Tirunelveli
Languages
• Official	Tamil
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)

Last updated April 16, 2019

Kurumbalapperi is a village in Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu, India. It is located between the cities of Tenkasi and Tirunelveli. The village was named for the groves of kurumbala (a sumal jackfruit) trees in the area. The vast majority of the inhabitants work in agriculture. One noteworthy feature is a large temple called Pathirakali Amman Koil that was constructed in the village.

Tirunelveli district District in Tamil Nadu, India

Tirunelveli district is a district of Tamil Nadu state in South India. It is the largest district in terms of area with Tirunelveli as its headquarters. Tirunelveli District was formed on 1 September 1790 by the British East India Company, and comprised the present Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi districts and parts of Virudhunagar and Ramanathapuram district. As of 2011, the district had a population of 3,077,233.

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.

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