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Malayalam is the official language of Kerala, [463] and one of the six Classical languages of India. [464] There is a significant Tamil population throughout Kerala mainly in Idukki district and Palakkad district which accounts for 17.48% and 4.8% of its total population. [465]
Geography of Kerala. Kerala's districts, shaded by biome and soil types. Kerala (38,863 km 2; 1.18% of India 's land) is situated between the Lakshadweep Sea to the west and the Western Ghats to the east. Kerala's coast runs some 590 km in length, while the state itself varies between 35–120 km in width.
A map of Kerala. The two kingdoms of Travancore and Cochin joined the Union of India after independence in 1947. On 1 July 1949, the two states were merged to form Travancore-Cochin. On 1 January 1950, Travancore-Cochin was recognised as a state. The Madras Presidency was reorganised to form Madras State in 1947.
Kozhikode ( pronounced [koːɻikːoːɖɨ̆] ⓘ ), also known in English as Calicut, is a city along the Malabar Coast in the state of Kerala in India. It has a corporation limit population of 609,224 [7] and a metropolitan population of more than 2 million, making it the second most populous metropolitan area in Kerala and the 19th largest in ...
Map of the backwaters in Kerala. The Kerala backwaters are a network of brackish lagoons and canals lying parallel to the Arabian Sea of the Malabar coast of Kerala state in south-western India. It also includes interconnected lakes, rivers, and inlets, a labyrinthine system formed by more than 900 km (560 mi) of waterways, and sometimes ...
Mahé, India. / 11.70111°N 75.53667°E / 11.70111; 75.53667. Mahe ( / mɑːˈheɪ /) also known as Mayyazhi, ( Malayalam: [mɐjːɐɻi]) is a small town in the Mahe district of the Puducherry Union Territory. It is situated at the mouth of the Mahe River and is surrounded by the State of Kerala.
Demographics of Kerala. Kerala is a state in south-western India. Most of Kerala's 34.8 million people (in 2011) are ethnically Malayalis ( Malayalam speakers). Most of the Malayalam and English speaking Keralites derive their ancestry from Dravidian communities that settled in Kerala. [citation needed]
The state comprises three parts – the Northern Kerala districts of Kasaragod, Kannur, Wayanad, Kozhikode, Malappuram and the Central Kerala districts of Palakkad, Thrissur, Ernakulam, Idukki, Kottayam and the Southern Kerala districts of Alappuzha, Pathanamthitta, Kollam, and Thiruvananthapuram. [2] Such a regional division occurred being ...