Nerkuppai | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Nerkuppai Location in Tamil Nadu, India | |
| Coordinates: 10°14′09″N78°32′40″E / 10.23583°N 78.54444°E Coordinates: 10°14′09″N78°32′40″E / 10.23583°N 78.54444°E | |
| Country |  |
| State | Tamil Nadu |
| District | Sivaganga |
| Population (2001) | |
| • Total | 5,691 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Tamil |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
Nerkuppai is a panchayat town in Sivaganga district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Sivaganga District is an administrative district in Tamil Nadu state. Sivaganga is the district headquarters.It is bounded by Pudukkottai district on the Northeast, Tiruchirapalli district on the North, Ramanathapuram district on South East, Virudhunagar district on South West and Madurai District on the West. The famous towns are Karaikudi, Manamadurai, Sivaganga, Devakottai, Tirupattur, Kalayar Kovil. As of 2011, the district had a population of 1,339,101 with a sex-ratio of 1,003 females for every 1,000 males.
India, also known as the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and 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; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.
Tamil Nadu, formerly Madras State, 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.
