Kanyana is a village in the southern state of
Karnataka
Karnataka ( ) is a States and union territories of India, state in the southwestern region of India. It was Unification of Karnataka, formed as Mysore State on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, States Re ...
,
India
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.
[Village code= 2706600 ][ Kanyana, Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka] It is located in the
Bantwal Taluk
Bantwal taluk is a taluk of Dakshina Kannada district. The headquarters is the town of Bantwal, an eastern suburb of Mangalore.
Prior to 1852, Bantwal Taluk was the largest taluk in the entire of Kanara, Canara Province (then comprising North ...
of
Dakshina Kannada district
Dakshina Kannada district is located in the state of Karnataka in India, with its headquarters in the coastal city of Mangaluru. The district covers an area nestled in between the Western Ghats to its east and the Arabian Sea to its west. Dakshi ...
in Karnataka. The majority of the population are
Hindu
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s,
Catholics
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and
Muslim
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s and the main languages spoken are
Tulu,
Kannada
Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a ...
, Beary,
Malayalam
Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian languages, Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of ...
and
Konkani __NOTOC__
Konkani may refer to:
Language
* Konkani language is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Konkan region of India.
* Konkani alphabets, different scripts used to write the language
**Konkani in the Roman script, one of the scripts used to ...
.
Demographics
As of
2011 India census, number of household are 1465, Kanyana had a
population of 7,650 with 3,771 males and 3,879 females.
Image gallery
File:Paivalike. Kukkaje. Kanyana.jpg, Kukkaje
File:Anekkallu Post Office.jpg, Anekallu
File:Snapinsta.app_277863059_397273715164410_7808082171695185721_n_1080.jpg, Kanyana
See also
*
Mangalore
Mangaluru (), formerly called Mangalore ( ), is a major industrial port city in the Indian state of Karnataka and on the west coast of India. It is located between the Laccadive Sea and the Western Ghats about west of Bengaluru, the st ...
*
Anekallu
Dakshina Kannada
*
Districts of Karnataka
The southern Indian state of Karnataka consists of 31 districts grouped into 4 administrative divisions, ''viz''., Belagavi, Bengaluru
, Gulbarga, and Mysore. Geographically, the state has three principal variants: the western coastal stretc ...
References
External links
Dakshina Kannada (South Kanara) district (in
Kannada
Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a ...
)
Villages in Dakshina Kannada district
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