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{{Infobox settlement<br />
| name = Thanjavur district<br />
| other_name = <br />
| nickname = Rice Bowl Of Tamil Nadu<br />
| settlement_type = [[List of districts of Tamil Nadu|District]] of [[Tamil Nadu]]<br />
| image_skyline = N-TN-C192 Sunrise-Perspective-of-BigTemple.jpg<br />
| image_alt = <br />
| image_caption = [[Brihadisvara Temple, Thanjavur|Periya Kovil]]<br />
| image_map = India Tamil Nadu districts Thanjavur.svg<br />
| map_alt = <br />
| map_caption = Location in Tamil Nadu, India<br />
| coordinates = {{coord|10|47|8.16|N|79|8|24.36|E|display=inline,title}}<br />
| subdivision_type = [[Country]]<br />
| subdivision_name = {{flag|India}}<br />
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]<br />
| subdivision_name1 = [[File:TamilNadu Logo.svg|22px]] [[Tamil Nadu]]<br />
| subdivision_type2 = Metro<br />
| subdivision_name2 = <!-- for neighbourhoods/suburbs only --><br />
| subdivision_type3 = [[Municipal Corporations]]<br />
| subdivision_name3 = [[Thanjavur]], [[Kumbakonam]]<br />
| subdivision_type4 = Municipalities<br />
| subdivision_name4 = <br />
| subdivision_type5 = Town Panchayats<br />
| subdivision_name5 = <br />
| established_title = <!-- Established --><br />
| established_date = <br />
| founder = <br />
| named_for = <br />
| parts_type = [[Taluka]]s<br />
| parts =<br />[[Budalur]],<br />[[Kumbakonam]],<br /> [[Orathanadu]],<br /> [[Papanasam]],<br /> [[Pattukkottai]],<br /> [[Peravurani]],<br /> [[Thanjavur]],<br /> [[Thiruvaiyaru]],<br /> [[Thiruvidaimarudur]]<br />
| seat_type = [[Headquarters]]<br />
| seat = [[Thanjavur]]<br />
| government_type = <br />
| governing_body = <br />
| leader_title1 = [[District Collector]]<br />
| leader_name1 = Thiru. M. Govinda Rao [[Indian Administrative Service|IAS]]<ref>[http://www.tn.gov.in/collectors|Thanjavur district Collector]</ref><br />
| leader_title2 = [[Superintendent of Police]]<br />
| leader_name2 = J.Mahesh [[Indian Police Service|IPS]]<ref><br />
|leader _title3 = Prince of Thanjavur<br />
[[Thanjavur Royal Family]]<br />
[http://www.tnpolice.gov.in/CCTNSNICSDC/wicket/page?13|Thanjavur City Superintendent of Police]</ref><br />
| unit_pref = Metric<br />
| area_footnotes = <br />
| area_rank = <br />
| area_total_km2 = <br />
| elevation_footnotes = <br />
| elevation_m = <br />
| population_total = 2,405,890<br />
| population_as_of = 2011<br />
| population_rank = <br />
| population_density_km2 = auto<br />
| population_demonym = <br />
| population_footnotes =<br />
| demographics_type1 = Languages<br />
| demographics1_title1 = Official<br />
| demographics1_info1 = [[Tamil language|Tamil]]<br />
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]<br />
| utc_offset1 = +5:30<br />
| postal_code_type = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]<br />
| postal_code = 613xxx<br />
| area_code_type = Telephone code<br />
| area_code = 04362,0435<br />
| iso_code = [[ISO 3166-2:IN]]<!-- ISO 3166-2 --><br />
| registration_plate = TN-49, TN-68<ref>[http://www.tn.gov.in/sta/a2.pdf www.tn.gov.in]</ref><br />
| blank1_name_sec1 = [[IUCN protected area categories|IUCN category]]<br />
| blank1_info_sec1 = <!-- for protected areas only --><br />
| blank2_name_sec1 = Central location:<br />
| blank2_info_sec1 = <br />
| website = {{URL|Thanjavur.nic.in/}}<br />
| footnotes = <br />
}}<br />
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'''Thanjavur District''' is one of the [[Districts of Tamil Nadu|38 districts]] of the [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[Tamil Nadu]], in southeastern [[India]]. Its headquarters is [[Thanjavur]]. The district is located in the delta of the [[Cauvery River]] and is mostly agrarian. As of 2011, Thanjavur district had a population of 2,405,890 with a sex-ratio of 1,035 females for every 1,000 males.<br />
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== Geography ==<br />
[[File:Paddy Fields Thanjavur.jpg|thumb|left|Agriculture - especially the cultivation of rice - is the main occupation of people in Thanjavur district.]]<br />
[[File:Brihadeeswara.jpg|thumb|220px|left|The [[Brihadisvara Temple, Thanjavur|Brihadisvara Temple]] at Thanjavur]]<br />
The district is located at {{Coord|10.08|N|79.16|E|}} in Central Tamil Nadu bounded on the northeast by [[Mayiladuthurai district]], on the east by [[Tiruvarur District]], on the south by the [[Palk Strait]] of [[Bay of Bengal]] on the west by [[Pudukkottai District]] and [[Tiruchirappalli District|Tiruchirappalli]], small border with [[Cuddalore district|Cuddalore]] on the northeast and on the north by the river [[Kollidam]], across which lie part of [[Tiruchirappalli District|Tiruchirappalli]], and [[Ariyalur district|Ariyalur]] districts.<br />
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== Demographics ==<br />
{{historical populations|11=1901|12=9,28,222|13=1911|14=9,78,651|15=1921|16=9,58,929|17=1931|18=9,86,308|19=1941|20=10,59,583|21=1951|22=12,28,360|23=1961|24=13,17,920|25=1971|26=15,92,998|27=1981|28=18,48,132|29=1991|30=20,53,760|31=2001|32=22,16,138|33=2011|34=24,05,890|percentages=pagr|footnote=source:<ref>[http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/PCA/A2_Data_Table.html Decadal Variation In Population Since 1901]</ref>|align=right}}According to [[2011 census of India|2011 census]], Thanjavur district had a population of 2,405,890 with a sex-ratio of 1,035 females for every 1,000 males, much above the national average of 929.<ref name="dashboard">{{cite web|title=Census Info 2011 Final population totals|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/censusinfodashboard/index.html|publisher=Office of The Registrar General and Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India|year=2013|access-date=26 January 2014}}</ref> A total of 238,598 were under the age of six, constituting 121,949 males and 116,649 females. [[Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes]] accounted for 18.91% and 0.15% of the population respectively. The average literacy of the district was 74.44%, compared to the national average of 72.99%.<ref name="dashboard" /> The district had a total of 605,363 households. There were a total of 974,079 workers, comprising 117,321 cultivators, 327,673 main agricultural labourers, 26,430 in house hold industries, 363,060 other workers, 139,595 marginal workers, 12,592 marginal cultivators, 87,688 marginal agricultural labourers, 4,770 marginal workers in household industries and 34,545 other marginal workers.<ref name=2011census>{{cite web|title=Census Info 2011 Final population totals – Thanjavur district|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/pca/SearchDetails.aspx?Id=695770|publisher=Office of The Registrar General and Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India|year=2013|access-date=26 January 2014}}</ref><br />
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== Economy ==<br />
=== Agriculture ===<br />
Thanjavur district lies in the [[Kaveri]] delta, the most fertile region in the state.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Nathan |first=K. K. |title=Assessment of Recent Droughts in Tamil Nadu |date=October 1995 |magazine=Drought Network News |url=http://drought.unl.edu/pubs/dnn/arch9.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030317211040/http://drought.unl.edu/pubs/dnn/arch9.pdf |archive-date=17 March 2003 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The district is the main [[rice]] producing region in the state and hence known as the Rice Bowl of Tamil Nadu.<ref>{{cite web|title=Welcome to Thanjavur (District Official Website)|publisher= District Administration of Thanjavur |url=http://www.thanjavur.tn.nic.in/ }}</ref> The [[Kaveri River]] and its tributaries irrigate the district. Apart from paddy, farmers here grow [[coconut]] and [[sugarcane]] and it is the largest producer of coconut in Tamil Nadu. Being an agrarian economy, industrial growth in the district is mainly confined to agro-based industries. Many rice mills and oil mills are spread over the district.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}<br />
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== Tourism ==<br />
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=== Great Living Chola Temples of Thanjavur ===<br />
[[File:Airavateswara Temple, Darasuram in Thanjavur District.jpg|thumb|[[Airavateswara temple]], Darasuram in kumbakonam,Thanjavur District was built by [[Rajaraja II|Rajaraja Chola II]] in the 12th century CE and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.]]<br />
Thanjavur's [[Brihadisvara Temple]] (known also as Rajarajesvaram or Peruvudaiyār Kōvil), built by the [[Cholas]] and now a [[UNESCO World Heritage Site]], is one of the largest of its kind and also one of the finest examples of classical Dravidian architecture in the world.<br />
[[Airavateswara temple]] in [[Darasuram]] near [[Kumbakonam]] has also been designated part of the same UNESCO World Heritage site and forms another major tourist attraction of the district.<br />
The green paddy fields of the Kaveri river valley provide a picturesque setting for these and other important ancient monuments of the district.<br />
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== Flora ==<br />
The [[flora]] of Thanjavur was studied and documented in some detail by S.A Ganapathy for a doctoral thesis in 1992.<ref name="Ragupathy, S.">{{Cite book|last= Ragupathy |first=Subramanyam |year=1992 |title= Flora of Thanjavur District |series=Doctoral dissertation, PhD thesis |publisher= Centre for Advanced Study in Botany, University of Madras |location=Madras, India }}</ref><br />
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== Cultural significance ==<br />
Thanjavur is famous for the "Saraswathi veena" (the national instrument), Thanjavur art plates, Thanjavur oil paintings and Thalaiyatti Bommai.<br />
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== Notable people ==<br />
{{See also|List of people associated with Thanjavur district}}<br />
* [[V. S. Srinivasa Sastri]]<br />
* [[Srinivasa Ramanujan]]<br />
* [[Sivaji Ganesan]], actor and former Rajya Sabha Member<br />
* [[K. Thulasiah Vandayar]], former MP<br />
* [[G. K. Moopanar|G K Moopanar TMC- Congress]]<br />
* [[S. S. Palanimanickam]], former Central Minister<br />
* [[S. D. Somasundaram|S.D Somasundaram EX Minister and MP]]<br />
* [[K. Parasuraman|Parasuram EX MP - Loksabha]]<br />
* [[L. Ganesan| L. Ganesan - EX MLA, MP, MLC]]<br />
* [[R. Vaithilingam|R. VaithiyaLingam - Ex Minister and Rajya Sabha Member]]<br />
* [[M. Ramachandran|M Ramachandran MLA - DMk]] <br />
* [[Durai Govindarajan|Durai Govindarajan EX MLA]] <br />
* [[Tiruvaiyaru (state assembly constituency)|Durai Chandrasekaran MLA]]<br />
* [[S.Shankar]]<br />
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== See also ==<br />
*[[Chola Nadu]]<br />
*[[Achanoor]]<br />
*[[Adirampattinam]]<br />
*[[Ayyampettai (Thanjavur district)|Ayyampettai]]<br />
*[[Kumbakonam]]<br />
*[[Madukkur]]<br />
*[[Temples of Kumbakonam]]<br />
*[[Peravurani]]<br />
*[[Pattukkottai]]<br />
*[[List of districts of Tamil Nadu]]<br />
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== Notes and references ==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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== External links ==<br />
{{Commons category}}<br />
* [https://thanjavur.nic.in/ Thanjavur District]<br />
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{{Tamil Nadu}}<br />
{{Thanjavur district}}<br />
{{Largest cities<br />
| name = :Thanjavur district<br />
| country = Thanjavur district<br />
| stat_ref = [http://censusindia.gov.in/NprStateReport.aspx?stcd=33&distcd=19&tslcode=005 Census of TN 2011]<br />
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| div_name = Province<br />
| div_link = Taluk<br />
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| city_2 = Kumbakonam | div_2 = Kumbakonam taluk | pop_2 = 140,156 | img_2 = Cauvery Bridge Kumbakonam.jpg<br />
| city_3 = Pattukkottai | div_3 = Pattukkottai taluk | pop_3 = 73,135 | img_3 = <br />
| city_4 = Adiramapattinam | div_4 = Pattukkottai taluk | pop_4 = 31,066 | img_4 = <br />
| city_5 = Peravurani | div_5 = Peravurani taluk | pop_5 = 21,035 | img_5 = <br />
| city_6 = Papanasam | div_6 = Papanasam taluk | pop_6 = 16,397 | img_6 =<br />
| city_7 = Madukkur | div_7 = Pattukkottai taluk | pop_7 = 15,436 | img_7 =<br />
| city_8 = Thiruvaiyaru | div_8 = Thiruvaiyaru taluk | pop_8 = 14,535 | img_8 = <br />
| city_9 = Vallam | div_9= Thanjavur taluk | pop_9 = 14,495 | img_9 = <br />
| city_10 = Ayyampettai (Thanjavur district) | div_10 = Papanasam taluk | pop_10 = 14,202 | img_10 = <br />
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