Kuttur is a village in Payyanur Taluk of

Kannur district Kannur () is one of the 14 Districts of Kerala, districts along the west coast in the state of Kerala, India. The city of Kannur is the district headquarters and gives the district its name. The old name, Cannanore, is the anglicized form of th ...

in the

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n state of

Kerala Kerala ( , ) is a States and union territories of India, state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile ...

Location

Kuttur is located 20.1 km east of

Payyanur Payyanur (), is a municipal town and a taluk, a sub-district administrative unit, in the Kannur district of Kerala, India. Payyanur is the first municipality in Kerala to establish libraries in all its wards. On 10 March 2018, Kerala Chief Min ...

town, 3.3 km away from

Mathamangalam Mathamangalam or M. M. Bazar is a small town in Kannur district of Kerala state, India. Mathamagalam is a main trading centre, especially for hill products. Location Mathamangalam is 8.5 kilometers from Pilathara junction on the National Highway ...

and 38.8 km north of

Kannur Kannur (), formerly known in English as Cannanore, is a city and Municipal corporation (India), municipal corporation in the state of Kerala, India. It is the administrative headquarters of the Kannur district and situated north of the maj ...

city.

Educational institutions

* SUNRISE COLLEGE OF ADVANCED STUDIES (SRC ), Kuttoor * Jaybees Training College of B. Ed., Kuttoor * Government U P School Kuttur

Demographics

As of the 2011 census, Kuttoor village has a population of 8,143, where 3,821 are males and 4,322 females. Kuttur village has an area of with 2,022 families. Population in the age group 0–6 is 875 (10.7%), which constitutes 432 males and 443 females. Kuttoor has an overall literacy rate of 92.3%, where male literacy stands at 96.2% and female literacy is 88.9%.

Transportation

The national highway (

NH 66 National Highway 66, commonly referred to as NH 66 (erstwhile NH-17 and a part of NH-47), is a mostly 4 lane 1640 km (1020 miles) long busy National Highway that runs roughly north–south along the western coast of India, parallel to t ...

) passes through Perumba junction.

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and

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can be accessed on the northern side and

Cochin Kochi ( , ), formerly known as Cochin ( ), is a major port city along the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea. It is part of the district of Ernakulam in the state of Kerala. The city is also commonly referred to as Ernaku ...

and

Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram ( ), also known as Trivandrum, is the Capital city, capital city of the Indian state of Kerala. As of 2011, the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation had a population of 957,730 over an area of 214.86 sq. km, making it the ...

can be accessed on the southern side. The road to the east of

Iritty Iritty is a municipality and taluk in Kannur district of Kerala state, India. The town is the main market place for the farmer communities in the surrounding regions. Iritty is at a distance of from Kannur International Airport and one among ...

connects to

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and

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. The nearest railway station is

on the

Shoranur–Mangalore section The Shoranur–Mangalore section, also known as Shoranur–Mangaluru section, is a railway segment of IR functioning under Palakkad Division of Southern Railway Zone. This is a broad gauge electrified line which begins at the Shornur Juncti ...

under Southern Railway. The nearest airport is Kannur International, about 54 km away.

References

Villages near Payyanur Villages in Kannur district {{Kannur-geo-stub

Location

Educational institutions

Demographics

Transportation

See also

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