Kaliyakkavilai is a
town panchayat
A nagar panchayat () or town panchayat or Notified Area Council (NAC) in India is a settlement in transition from rural to urban and therefore a form of an urban political unit comparable to a municipality. An urban centre with more than 12,00 ...
in
Kanyakumari district in the
India
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state
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of
Tamil Nadu
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, close to the Tamil Nadu-Kerala border. It lies on the Kochi-Thiruvananthapuram-Kanyakumari National Highway 47.
Demographics
As of the
2011 India census,
Kaliyakkavilai had a population of 15,625, with an average literacy of 81.4%. 10.1% of the population were children at the time of the census.
References
Cities and towns in Kanyakumari district
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