Thottiyam taluk is a
taluk
A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administrative ...
of
Tiruchirapalli district
Tiruchirappalli District is List of districts of Tamil Nadu, one of the 38 districts, located along the Kaveri River, in Tamil Nadu, India. The headquarters of the district is the city of Tiruchirappalli.
During the British Raj, the district wa ...
of the
Indian state
India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, for a total of 36 subnational entities. The states and union territories are further subdivided into 800 districts and smaller administrative divisions by the respe ...
of
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is the southernmost States and union territories of India, state of India. The List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of Indi ...
. The headquarters of the taluk is in the town of
Thottiyam
Thottiyam is a Town and Taluk in Tiruchirappalli district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is situated 60 km north-west of Tiruchirapalli on Tiruchy-Namakkal State Highway (SH-25) and further it connects Namakkal-Salem-Bangalore Natio ...
.
Demographics
According to the 2011 census, Thottiyam Taluk had an estimated population of 135,118 people with 67,258 males and 67,860 females. Approximately 1009 women live there for every 1000 men. Thottiyam Taluk has a literacy rate of 67.87%. Childhood (age 0–6 years) literacy in 2011 was estimated to be about 12,873, with around 6,695 males and 6,178 females. The village of
Manamedu Trichy is located within Thottiyam taluk. There is a facebook page for the taluk.
References
Taluks of Tiruchirapalli district
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