Madurai metropolitan area

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Madurai Metropolitan Area
Madurai Urban Agglomeration
Metropolitan Area
Nickname: 
Athens of the East
CountryIndia
StateTamil Nadu
SeatMadurai
DistrictsMadurai city and suburban parts of the city in Madurai District
Area
 • Metropolitan Area247 km2 (95 sq mi)
 • Metro
147.97 km2 (57.13 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)[1]
 • Metro
1,462,420
DemonymMaduraikaran
Time zoneUTC+5:30
Development authorityMadurai Local Planning Authority

The Madurai Metropolitan Area, or Madurai Urban Agglomeration, is the 31st largest urban agglomeration in India and is the third largest metropolitan area or urban agglomeration in the state of Tamil Nadu only next to Chennai and Coimbatore. The Madurai Metropolitan Area consists of the city of Madurai and its suburbs in Madurai district.[1][2]

Composition

The Madurai urban agglomeration is a metropolitan area in Tamil Nadu state, consisting of the city of Madurai and its suburbs. It consists of a municipal corporation and suburban areas spread out in parts of Madurai district.[3]

Municipal corporations

  1. Madurai City Municipal Corporation

Municipalities

  1. Tirumangalam
  2. Melur
  3. Thiruparankundram
  4. Usilampatti
  5. Avaniyapuram

Town Panchayats

  1. Vadipatti
  2. Paravai
  3. Vilangudi
  4. Thirunagar
  5. Sholavandan

Census Towns

  1. Kannanendal
  2. Melamadai
  3. Chinna Anuppanadi
  4. Nagavakulam

Districts

  1. Madurai district (partial)

Taluks

From Madurai district

  1. Madurai-North (partial)
  2. Madurai-South
  3. Melur (partial)
  4. Thirumangalam (partial)
  5. Thiruparankundram
  6. Vadipatti (partial)

Transport

The Regional Transport offices in the Madurai metropolitan area are TN-58 (Madurai South), TN-59 (Madurai North), and TN-64 (Madurai Central).[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Urban Agglomerations/Cities having population 1 lakh and above" (PDF). Censusindia. The Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 November 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
  2. ↑ "Chennai 4th in urban agglomerations".
  3. ↑ "India Census 2011" (PDF). April 2017.
  4. ↑ "Registration Series Allotted to Regional Transport Offices". Government of Tamil Nadu, State Transport Authority. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 September 2012.
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