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city / town
Madras (Chennai)
by sylvie.n
area
181.06 km² The fourth of India's mega cities (6.5 million inhabitants.) Attracts tourists
because it is a good starting point to destinations on the Coromandel coast
website and elsewhere in the eastern part of South India is. The comforts of good
http:// hotels, however, owes not a big tourist business, but the role of Madras
as the location of the automobile, electrical and Feinmechanikindustrie with
www.chennaicorporation.com/
investments from international companies to play multi. Christians believe in
population the established tradition, the apostle Thomas had knitted in Madras, although
4.34 million historians say that until two centuries later, merchants from Mesopotamia in
Kerala the first followers of Jesus were in India. In Madras, which in the 16th
Century by the Portuguese and 18 to 20 Century by the British masters, are
still some buildings from the 17th Centuries. The situation on the 13 km long
beach is tropically pleasant. The proud inhabitants of the capital of Tamil Nadu
Tamil speak and hold nothing of paternalism by the central government in the
north. So they are on the Chennai Tamil name for their city. From Madras
mainly from Mahabalipuram (Mamallapuram), and Kanchipuram, India places
high culture, and with the Tirupathi temple in Venkateshvara-day trips within
easy reach.
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