Chennai, known as Madras until 1996, is situated on the Coromandel Coast in south-east India and is the capital of the state of Tamil Nadu.
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Geography. Madras state covered an area of 127,790 sq mi (331,000 km2) and consisted of the present-day Tamil Nadu and Kerala, Rayalaseema and Coastal Andhra ...
Madras was later admitted as Madras State, a state of the Indian Union at the inauguration of the Republic of India on 26 January 1950.
Chennai, formerly known as Madras, city and capital of Tamil Nadu state, southern India, located on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal.
It is the capital city of Tamilnadu state. This coastal center of trade has drawn traffic from all over the world for centuries. The distance from Chennai ...
Tamil Nadu, state of India, located in the extreme south of the subcontinent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the east and south and by the states of ...