Tamil Nadu

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administrative territorial entity state of India

Tamil Nadu is a state in southern India known for its rich Dravidian cultural heritage, classical arts, and major urban centers like Chennai.

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Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form	Occurrences
Madras State	3
Indian state of Tamil Nadu	1
Tamil Nadu, India	1

Statements (89)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	administrative territorial entity ⓘ state of India ⓘ
borderedBy	Andhra Pradesh ⓘ Bay of Bengal ⓘ Indian Ocean ⓘ Karnataka ⓘ Kerala ⓘ Puducherry ⓘ
capital	Chennai ⓘ
contains	Annamalaiyar Temple ⓘ Brihadeeswarar Temple ⓘ Chidambaram ⓘ Gulf of Mannar ⓘ Kanyakumari ⓘ Kaveri ⓘ surface form: Kaveri River Kodaikanal ⓘ Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple ⓘ Mahabalipuram ⓘ Nilgiri Hills ⓘ Ooty ⓘ Palar River ⓘ Rameswaram ⓘ Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple, Srirangam ⓘ surface form: Srirangam Ranganathaswamy Temple Tanjore ⓘ surface form: Thanjavur Vaigai River ⓘ
country	India ⓘ
hasClimate	tropical climate ⓘ
hasCoastlineOn	Bay of Bengal ⓘ Indian Ocean ⓘ
hasHighCourt	Madras High Court ⓘ
hasInternationalAirport	Chennai International Airport ⓘ Coimbatore International Airport ⓘ Madurai International Airport ⓘ Tiruchirappalli International Airport ⓘ
hasLegislature	Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly ⓘ
hasMajorCity	Chennai ⓘ Coimbatore ⓘ Erode ⓘ Madurai ⓘ Salem ⓘ Tanjore ⓘ surface form: Thanjavur Thoothukudi ⓘ Tiruchirappalli ⓘ Tirunelveli ⓘ Tiruppur ⓘ Vellore ⓘ
hasMajorCrop	cotton ⓘ millets ⓘ rice ⓘ sugarcane ⓘ
hasMajorIndustry	automobile manufacturing ⓘ film production ⓘ information technology ⓘ leather ⓘ textiles ⓘ
hasMajorPort	Kamarajar Port ⓘ surface form: Chennai Port Kamarajar Port ⓘ Thoothukudi Port ⓘ
hasOfficialAnimal	Nilgiri tahr ⓘ
hasOfficialBird	Emerald dove ⓘ
hasOfficialEmblem	Emblem of Tamil Nadu ⓘ
hasOfficialFlower	Gloriosa lily ⓘ
hasOfficialSport	Kabaddi ⓘ
hasOfficialTree	Palm tree ⓘ
hasRegionalLanguage	Kannada ⓘ Malayalam ⓘ Telugu ⓘ Urdu language ⓘ surface form: Urdu
hasUNESCOWorldHeritageSite	Great Living Chola Temples ⓘ Mahabalipuram ⓘ surface form: Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram Nilgiri Mountain Railway ⓘ
hasVehicleRegistrationCode	TN ⓘ
hasWritingSystem	Tamil script ⓘ
headOfGovernment	Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu ⓘ
headOfStateRepresentative	Governor of Tamil Nadu ⓘ
knownFor	Bharatanatyam dance ⓘ Dravidian temple architecture ⓘ surface form: Dravidian architecture Tamil cinema ⓘ classical Carnatic music ⓘ temple towns ⓘ
language	Tamil ⓘ
largestCity	Chennai ⓘ
locatedIn	South India ⓘ surface form: southern India
officialLanguage	Tamil ⓘ
partOf	Dravidian cultural region ⓘ
receivesMonsoonFrom	northeast monsoon ⓘ southwest monsoon ⓘ
timeZone	Indian Standard Time ⓘ
utcOffset	+05:30 ⓘ

Referenced by (140)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kamarajar Salai → locatedIn → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

M. A. Chidambaram Stadium → locatedIn → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Madras High Court → locatedIn → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Madras Port → locatedIn → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Madras Time → locatedIn → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Madurai → locatedIn → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Marina Beach → locatedIn → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Mettur Dam → locatedIn → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Noyyal → locatedIn → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Parthasarathy Temple, Triplicane → locatedIn → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Presidency College, Madras → locatedIn → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Tiruchirappalli → locatedIn → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Trichinopoly → locatedIn → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

University of Madras → locatedIn → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Kumbakonam, Madras Presidency, British India → locatedInPresentDay → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Chennai Metro → locatedInState → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Kamarajar Port → locatedInState → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Kapaleeshwarar Temple → locatedInState → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Valluvar Kottam → locatedInState → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Battle of Arni → location → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Home Rule movement → mainRegion → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Indians in South Africa → majorAncestralRegion → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Ganesha → majorFestivalRegion → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Tamil people → nativeTo → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Ganesh Chaturthi → observedIn → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Makar Sankranti → observedInState → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

P. Chidambaram → origin → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tamil Nadu, India

Madras High Court → overseesSubordinateCourtsIn → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Western Ghats → passesThrough → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

M. A. Chidambaram → placeOfActivity → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

A. R. Rahman → placeOfBirth → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

S. R. Ranganathan → placeOfBirth → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

C. Rajagopalachari → placeOfDeath → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan → placeOfDeath → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw → placeOfDeath → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

subject surface form: Sam Manekshaw

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan → placeOfDeath → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Bharatanatyam → placeOfOrigin → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Andhra State → precededBy → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

this entity surface form: Madras State

Madras Presidency → presentDayRegion → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Tamil → primaryRegion → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Kannada → recognizedMinorityLanguageIn → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Telugu → recognizedMinorityLanguageIn → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

T. T. Krishnamachari → region → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Tamil literature → region → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Tirukkural → region → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Treaty of Seringapatam → regionImpacted → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Anna University → regionServed → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Chennai International Airport → regionServed → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Mettur Dam → reservoirState → Tamil Nadu ⓘ

Carnatic region of India → roughlyCorrespondsTo → Tamil Nadu ⓘ