Geography of Tamil Nadu

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How Geography of Tamil Nadu connects to the ideas, people and events around it.

1. Tamil Nadu

   Tamil Nadu is the southernmost state of India.

2. India

   India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the world's seventh-largest country by area and its most populous.

3. Kerala

   Kerala, officially Keralam, is a state on the Malabar Coast of southern India. It was formed on 1 November 1956 under the States Reorganisation Act, which unified the country's Malayalam-speaking regions into a single state.

4. Karnataka

   Karnataka is a state on the southwestern coast of India. It was formed as Mysore State on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, and renamed in 1973.

5. Bay of Bengal

   The Bay of Bengal forms the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, located between the Indian subcontinent and the Indochinese peninsula, south of the Bengal region.

6. Indian Ocean

   The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering 70,560,000 km2 (27,240,000 sq mi) or approximately 20% of the water area of Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east.

7. Kanyakumari

   Kanyakumari is a town and municipality in Kanyakumari district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.

8. Indian subcontinent

   The Indian subcontinent is a physiographic region of Asia south of the Himalayas which projects into the Indian Ocean between the Bay of Bengal to the east and the Arabian Sea to the west.

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