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The name derives from the deity of the Hindu temple at the center of Thiruvananthapuram city. Anantha is another name of Vishnu, the deity of Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple. The district's official name in English was Trivandrum until 1991, when the government reinstated the city's original name, Thiruvananthapuram, in all languages.
Some of the districts were renamed in 1990 from the anglicised names to their local names. The 14 districts are further divided into 27 revenue divisions, 77 taluks, and 1664 revenue villages. For local governance, Kerala has 6 Municipal Corporations and 87 Municipalities overseeing urban areas.
Pages in category "Villages in Thiruvananthapuram district" The following 155 pages are in this category, out of 155 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The urban councils of Kerala date back to the 17th century, when the Dutch Malabar established the municipality of Fort Kochi.In 1664, the municipality of Fort Kochi was established by Dutch Malabar, making it the first municipality in the Indian subcontinent, which was dissolved when the Dutch authority got weaker in the 18th century. [3]
Varkala Taluk is a Taluk (tehsil) situated in the northernmost tip of Thiruvananthapuram district in the Indian state of Kerala. It is the 3rd most densely populated taluk in the district comprising 10 villages and Varkala municipality. Spanning an area of about 177.16 km 2,Varkala Taluk is home to over 9% of total population of Trivandrum ...
Thiruvananthapuram metropolitan area; V. Varkala This page was last edited on 24 May 2016, at 01:49 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Thiruvananthapuram district has a reserve forest area of 495.1 km 2 (191 sq mi) and vested forest area of 3.534 km 2 (1.4 sq mi). The forests are spread over three ranges: the Kulathupuzha range in the north, Palode range in the middle, and the Paruthipalli range in the south.
Thiruvananthapuram Metropolitan Area is the area consisting of Thiruvananthapuram Corporation and the municipalities of Attingal, Nedumangad and Neyyattinkara, 3 "outgrowths" and 24 census towns. The total population is 1,687,406, which includes 815,200 males and 872,206 females as per 2011 census.