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Chennai
Madras
Megaceety[1]
Clockwise frae tap richt: Chennai Central, Marina Beach, Madras Heich Coort, TIDEL Park, Ripon Biggin, San Thome Basilica, Kapaleeshwarar Temple, Classical dance Bharata Natyam an Valluvar Kottam
Nickname(s): Detroit o Indie[2]
Gatewey o Sooth Indie
Indie's Heal Caipital, Ceety o fleeower
Chennai is locatit in Tamil Nadu
Chennai
Chennai
Location o Chennai in Tamil Nadu
Coordinates: 13°5′N 80°16′E / 13.083°N 80.267°E / 13.083; 80.267Coordinates: 13°5′N 80°16′E / 13.083°N 80.267°E / 13.083; 80.267
Kintra  Indie
State Tamil Nadu
Destrict Chennai, Kanchipuram Tiruvallur[upper-alpha 1]
Umwhile name Madras
Established 1639
Govrenment
 • Teep Mayor–Cooncil
 • Bouk Greater Chennai Corporation
 • Mayor Saidai Duraisamy[3]
 • Corporation Commissioner D Karthikeyan IAS
 • Police Commissioner Dr. A K Viswanathan[4] IPS
Aurie[5][6][7]
 • Megaceety[1] 426 km2 (164.5 sq mi)
 • Metro[7][6] 1,189 km2 (459.07 sq mi)
Elevation 6 m (20 ft)
Population (2011)[9]
 • Megaceety[1] 7,088,000
 • Rank 5t
 • Density 17,000/km2 (43,000/sq mi)
 • Metro[10] 8,653,521
8,917,749 (Extendit UA)[8]
 • Metro rank 4t
Demonym(s) Chennaiite
Leids
 • Native Standard Tamil
Madras Tamil
 • Offeecial Tamil
Inglis
 • Minority Hindi
Telugu
Malayalam
Kannada
Urdu
Time zone IST (UTC+05:30)
Pincode(s) 600xxx
Aurie code(s) +91-44
Vehicle registration TN-01 to TN-14, TN-18, TN-22, TN-85
Metro GDP $59 tae $66 billion (PPP)[11][12]
Wabsteid Chennai Corporation
  1. ↑ The Chennai metropolitan aurie an aw includes portions o Kanchipuram an Tiruvallur destricts adjynin the Chennai Destrict.

Chennai (ெசன்னை in Tamil), kent as Madras an aw, is the caipital o the state o Tamil Nadu an is Indie's fowert lairgest ceety. It is locatit on the Coromandel Coast o the Bay o Bengal. Wi a nae-pruived 7.45 million indwallers (2005), the 367-year ceety is the 41st lairgest metropolitan aurie in the warld.

References[eedit | eedit soorce]

  1. ↑ "The Principal Agglomerations of the World". citypopulation.de. Retrieved 8 December 2017. [better soorce needit]
  2. ↑ Business America (in Inglis). U.S. Department of Commerce. 1997. p. 14. 
  3. ↑ "Who's Who". About Corporation of Chennai. Corporation of Chennai. Retrieved 28 December 2012. 
  4. ↑ "Commissioner of Police". 
  5. ↑ "Chennai: PhaseII" (PDF). Archived frae the oreeginal (PDF) on 24 April 2014. Retrieved 24 April 2014. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Chennai Expansion Could Be Tricky, Suggests History". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 30 May 2017. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "About Greater Chennai Corporation". Official Website of Greater Chennai Corporation. 
  8. ↑ "INDIA STATS : Million plus cities in India as per Census 2011". Press Information Bureau, Mumbai. National Informatics Centre. Retrieved 20 August 2015. 
  9. ↑ "Chennai Corporation is re-christened Greater Chennai Corporation". The Hindu. Retrieved January 31, 2016. 
  10. ↑ "Tamil Nādu (India): State, Major Agglomerations & Cities - Population Statistics in Maps and Charts". City population.de. Retrieved 13 October 2015. 
  11. ↑ "Global city GDP rankings 2008–2025". PwC. Archived frae the oreeginal on 4 May 2011. Retrieved 16 December 2009. 
  12. ↑ "Global city GDP 2014". Brookings Institution. Retrieved 8 May 2015. 


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