Tenkasi district
District in Tamil Nadu, India
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Geography
The district shares borders with Tirunelveli district in the south, Virudhunagar district in the north, Thoothukudi district in the east and Kollam and Pathanamthitta districts of Kerala in the west. The western part of the district runs along the Western Ghats, while the east is mainly flat plains.
Tenkasi was formed from 8 talukas: Sivagiri, Sankarankovil, Veerakeralamputhur, Alangulam, Tenkasi and Shenkottai, Kadayanallur, Thiruvenkatam.
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Administration
Revenue Divisions and Taluks
Tenkasi Revenue Division: Shenkottai, Tenkasi, Kadayanallur, Veerakeralamputhur, Alangulam
Sankarankoil Revenue Division: Sankarankoil, Tiruvengadam, Sivagiri
Proposed Municipal Corporation
- Tenkasi
Municipalities
- Shenkottai
- Kadayanallur
- Puliyankudi
- Surandai
- Sankarankovil
Town Panchayats
- Alangulam
- Achampudur
- Alwarkurichi
- Aygudi
- Courtallam
- Ilanji
- Keelapavoor
- Melagaram
- Panpoli
- Pudur(s)
- Rayagiri
- Sambavar Vadagarai
- Sivagiri
- Sundarapandiapuram
- Thiruvenkadam
- Vadakarai Keezhpadugai
- Vasudevanallur
Proposed Municipalities
- Alangulam
- Keelapavoor
- Vasudevanallur
- Sivagiri
- Thiruvenkadam
Proposed Town Panchayats
- Veerakeralampudur
- Kadayam
- Melaneelithanallur
- Kuruvikulam
Panchayat Unions / Blocks
- Shenkottai
- Tenkasi
- Kadayanallur
- Vasudevanallur
- Sankarankoil
- Kuruvikulam
- Melaneelithanallur
- Keelapavoor
- Alangulam
- kasidharmam
- Kadayam
Politics
Tenkasi Assembly constituency is part of Tenkasi Lok Sabha constituency. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes.
Parliamentary Constituency
Assembly constituencies
Demographics
At the time of the 2011 census, Tenkasi district had a population of 1,420,064. Tenkasi district has 697,635 males and 743,160 females with a sex ratio of 1065 females per 1000 males. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes made up 292,900 (20.33%) and 3,656 (0.25%) of the population respectively. 613,758 (42.60%) of the population lived in urban areas.
At the time of the 2011 census, 98.77% of the population spoke Tamil and 0.92% Telugu as their first language.
Villages
- Anaikutiyur
- Avudaiyanoor
- Kodikurichi
- Subramaniapuram
- Thattankulam