Kanchipuram District is one of the 38 districts in the state of

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. The area comprising the present day Kancheepuram district was earlier a part of Chingleput district. The original Chingleput district was split in 1997 into form the present day Kanchipuram and

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districts. On 18 July 2019,

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was carved out of Kanchipuram district, with suburbs from Chengalpet towards Chennai under the district headquarters in Chengalpet. The separation came into effect from 29 November which was done by former Chief Minister Mr. Edappadi K Palaniswami.

Geography

Kanchipuram district is situated on the North Eastern part of Tamil Nadu. It is bounded by

in the East,

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district in the northeast,

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and

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districts in the west and

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in the north. It lies between 11° 00' to 12° 00' latitudes and 77° 28' to 78° 50' longitudes. The district has a total geographical area of 4,43,210 hectares. The table below shows the maximum and minimum temperatures experienced in the district during different seasons. Northeast and Southwest monsoon are the major donors, with 54% and 36% contribution each to the total annual rainfall. During normal monsoon, the district receives a rainfall of 1200 mm. The

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river is the most important river running through the district. Through most of the year it remains dry, attributed to the construction of dams across the river in

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. There are only a few hills of considerable elevation in the district. The southern part of Maduranthakam taluk contains small hills. The total forest area in the district is 23,586 hectares.

Climate

Administrative divisions

* Municipal corporation – 1 * Municipalities – 2 * Town Panchayats – 3 * District panchayat wards – 9 * Panchayat unions – 5 * Village panchayat wards – 274

Revenue divisions and taluks

Kancheepuram District consists of two revenue divisions and five taluks: * Sriperumbudur Revenue Division –

Sriperumbudur taluk Sriperumbudur taluk is a taluk of Kanchipuram district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The headquarters of the taluk is the town of Sriperumbudur Sriperumbudur, also known as Thiruperumbudur, is a Municipality and the headquarters of Srip ...

, Kundrathur taluk * Kanchipuram Revenue Division –

Kanchipuram taluk Kancheepuram taluk is a taluk of Kancheepuram district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The headquarters of the taluk is the town of Kanchipuram Kanchipuram (International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration, IAST: '; ), also known as ...

, Walajabad taluk,

Uthiramerur taluk Uthiramerur Taluk is a taluk in Kanchipuram district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The headquarters of the taluk is the town of Uthiramerur Uthiramerur is a panchayat town in Kancheepuram district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It i ...

Municipal corporation

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Municipalities

Kundrathur Kundrathur is a suburb located in the Chennai Metropolitan Area and the headquarters of Kundrathur taluk in Kanchipuram District. It is the birthplace of Sekkizhar, a well-known poet-saint who authored the Periyapuranam. Gerugampakkam, Iran ...

Mangadu Mangadu is a neighborhood to the west of Chennai, India. Literally meaning a mango forest. The Mangadu Municipality is about 18 km from Chennai Central railway station, 14 km from Chennai International Airport and 13 km from CMB ...

Proposed municipalities

Sriperumbudur Sriperumbudur, also known as Thiruperumbudur, is a Municipality and the headquarters of Sriperumbudur taluk located in Kanchipuram district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Located 40 kilometers southwest of the capital city of Chennai ...

Iyyapanthangal Iyyappanthangal is a neighborhood to the west of Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. It comes under Ayyappanthangal Village Panchayath comprising three villages - Ayyappanthangal, Kolathuvancheri, Thelliyar Agaram falling under Kundrathur Panchayath U ...

Gerugambakkam Gerugambakkam is a residential-industrial neighborhood in the South-Western part of Chennai, a metropolitan city in Tamil Nadu, India.It belongs to the Kundrathur taluk of Kanchipuram District, Tamil Nadu, India. It forms a suburb of Chennai ...

Walajabad Walajabad is a panchayat town in Kancheepuram district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the main town in Walajabad taluk. Demographics India census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically ac ...

Town panchayats

Uthiramerur Uthiramerur is a panchayat town in Kancheepuram district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is situated 90 km south west of Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu. It is noted for its temple inscriptions that describe a self-governance syst ...

Proposed town panchayats

* Thirumudivakkam *

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* Maduramangalam

Panchayat unions / blocks

Kanchipuram Kanchipuram (International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration, IAST: '; ), also known as Kanjeevaram, is a stand alone city corporation, satellite nodal city of Chennai in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu in the Tondaimandalam region, from ...

Demographics

According to 2011 census, Kancheepuram district had a population of 3,998,252 with a sex-ratio of 986 females for every 1,000 males, much above the national average of 929. A total of 431,574 were under the age of six, constituting 220,341 males and 211,233 females. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes accounted for 23.71% and 1.03% of the population respectively. The average literacy of the district was 75.37%, compared to the national average of 72.99%. The district had a total of 1,006,245 households. There were a total of 1,673,814 workers, comprising 74,761 cultivators, 162,494 main agricultural labourers, 41,149 in house hold industries, 1,088,974 other workers, 306,436 marginal workers, 14,582 marginal cultivators, 110,020 marginal agricultural labourers, 13,583 marginal workers in household industries and 168,251 other marginal workers.

Politics

Economy

Agriculture is the main occupation of the people with 47% of the population engaged in it. Paddy is the major crop cultivated in this district. Groundnuts, sugarcane, cereals, millet and pulses are the other major crops cultivated. 76.50 metric tonnes lands are cultivated in fuel wood and 8.039 tonnes in cashew. Palar river along with tanks and wells are the main sources of irrigation in this district. More than 70 percent of the 163 notified areas (megalithic sites) in the state of Tamil Nadu are in Kancheepuram district, including those at Erumaiyur, Nandampakkam, Sirukalathur, Sikarayapuram, Ayyancheri, Kilambakkam and Nanmangalam.

References

External links

Kanchipuram district website
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