Tamil Nadu

The State of Tamil Nadu is divided into 31 Districts, the Area, Population (External website that opens in a new window) and Headquarters are as follows:

Area, Population and Headquarter of each district

Sr. No.	District	Area in 000' sq. km	2001 Census Population	Headquarters
1	Ariyalur	1,937	695,524	Ariyalur
2	Chennai (External website that opens in a new window)	174	4,343,645	Chennai
3	Coimbatore (External website that opens in a new window)	7,469	4,271,856	Coimbatore
4	Cuddalore (External website that opens in a new window)	3,645	2,285,395	Cuddalore
5	Dharmapuri (External website that opens in a new window)	9,622	2,856,300	Dharmapuri
6	Dindigul (External website that opens in a new window)	6,058	1,923,014	Dindigul
7	Erode (External website that opens in a new window)	8,209	2,581,500	Erode
8	Kanchipuram (External website that opens in a new window)	4,433	2,877,468	Kanchipuram
9	Kanyakumari (External website that opens in a new window)	1,684	1,676,034	Nagercoil
10	Karur (External website that opens in a new window)	3,003	935,686	Karur
11	Madurai (External website that opens in a new window)	3,497	2,578,201	Madurai
12	Nagapattinam (External website that opens in a new window)	2,715	1,488,839	Nagapattinam
13	Namakkal (External website that opens in a new window)	3,429	1,493,462	Namakkal
14	Perambalur (External website that opens in a new window)	1,750	493,646	Perambalur
15	Pudukkottai (External website that opens in a new window)	4,651	1,459,601	Pudukkottai
16	Ramanathapuram (External website that opens in a new window)	4,129	1,187,604	Ramanathapuram
17	Salem (External website that opens in a new window)	5,219	3,016,346	Salem
18	Sivaganga (External website that opens in a new window)	4,189	1,155,356	Sivaganga
19	Thanjavur (External website that opens in a new window)	3,396	2,216,138	Thanjavur
20	Nilgiris (External website that opens in a new window)	2,549	762,141	Udagamandalam
21	Theni (External website that opens in a new window)	3,067	1,093,950	Theni
22	Tiruvallur (External website that opens in a new window)	3,424	2,754,756	Tiruvallur
23	Tiruvarur (External website that opens in a new window)	2,167	1,169,474	Thiruvarur
24	Thoothukudi (External website that opens in a new window)	4,403	1,572,273	Thoothukudi
25	Tiruchirappalli (External website that opens in a new window)	6,810	2,418,366	Tiruchchirappalli
26	Tirunelveli (External website that opens in a new window)	6,191	2,723,988	Tirunelveli
27	Tiruvannamalai (External website that opens in a new window)	4,621	2,186,125	Tiruvannamalai
28	Vellore (External website that opens in a new window)	6,077	3,477,317	Vellore
29	Viluppuram (External website that opens in a new window)	7,250	2,960,373	Viluppuram
30	Virudhunagar (External website that opens in a new window)	4,283	1,751,301	Virudhunagar
31	Krishnagiri (External website that opens in a new window)	5,143	1,546,700	Krishnagiri

Source: India 2010 - A Reference Annual