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Pondicherry is the capital city of The Union Territory of Puducherry and is one of the most popular tourist destinations in South India. A French colony until 1954, this coastal town retains a number of colonial buildings, churches, statues, and systematic town planning, as well as urban architecture of the local Tamil style.
Karaikal (English: /kɑːɹaɪ̯kʌl/, Tamil: [kaːɾɐi̯kːaːl], French: Karikal /kaʁikal/) is a Municipality of the Indian Union Territory of Puducherry. [2] It is the administrative headquarters of the Karaikal District and the second most populated town in the Union Territory after Pondicherry .
Together with Chandernagor (already French since 1673), Mahé (since 1721), Yanam (since 1723), Karaikal (Karikal) (since 1739) and Masulipatam (1760), it formed the colony of French India, under a single French governor in Pondicherry, although French rule over one or more of these enclaves was repeatedly interrupted by British occupations.
Puducherry is a Union Territory of India, with four exclaved districts; Puducherry district and Karaikal district (surrounded by the state of Tamil Nadu), Mahé district (surrounded by the state of Kerala) and Yanam district (surrounded by the state of Andhra Pradesh), with Pondicherry district having the largest area and population and Mahe district having the smallest area and population.
On 1 November 1954, after long years of freedom struggle the de facto transfer (Vāstavikāntaraṇa) of the four enclaves of Pondicherry, Yanam, Mahé, and Karikal to India was achieved. The Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru , visited Puducherry on 16 January 1955.
Karaikal railway station is a railway terminus, situated in the town of Karaikal in the Union Territory of Puducherry, India. [9] Port. Karaikal Port Private Limited (KPPL), a private port developed by the Chennai-based MARG Limited, became operational in April 2009. The port is located on the Eastern coast of India at keezhavanjore village in ...
As noted in 2011 census of India, along with the census town Thirumalairayanpattinam, the Karaikal municipality has formed a new urban agglomeration, Karaikal Urban Agglomeration. [1] This is the 2nd urban agglomeration noted in the union territory of Puducherry, the first one being Puducherry Urban Agglomeration formed around the city of ...
Note that Hindi–Urdu transliteration schemes can be used for Punjabi as well, for Gurmukhi (Eastern Punjabi) to Shahmukhi (Western Punjabi) conversion, since Shahmukhi is a superset of the Urdu alphabet (with 2 extra consonants) and the Gurmukhi script can be easily converted to the Devanagari script.