Uthukkottai 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 ...

Tiruvallur district Thiruvallur District, also spelled as Tiruvallur District, is one of the 38 districts (an administrative district) in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The fast developing city of Tiruvallur is the district headquarters. The district has a mixture ...

of the

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. The headquarters of the taluk is the town of Uthukkottai.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, the taluk of Uthukkottai had a population of 149,991 with 74,079 males and 75,912 females. There were 1025 women for every 1000 men. The taluk had a literacy rate of 62.34. Child population in the age group below 6 was 7,803 Males and 7,581 Females.

Points of interest

* Sri Bhavani Amman Temple in Periapalayam * Surutapalli Pallikondeswarar Temple, * Gangaikonda cholapuram temple, a UNESCO site in

Gangaikonda cholapuram Gaṅgaikoṇḍa Chōḻapuram is a village located near to Jayankondam, Ariyalur district, Tamil Nadu, India. It became the capital of the Chola dynasty in c. 1025 by Chola emperor Rajendra Chola I, Rajendra I, and served as the capital for a ...

is nearly 2 km from the taluk about 2 km from the town of Uthukkottai, has the only "Sayana Sivan" (sleeping Siva), which is called Pallikondeswarar''.

Towns and villages

Uthukkottai Taluk has one town, the

panchayat town 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 ...

of Uthukkottai, and eighty-eight villages. At the 2011 census, three of the villages had populations over 5000: Pennalurpet, Periyapalayam, and Vadamadurai. The villages are:

References

Taluks of Tiruvallur district {{Tiruvallur-geo-stub