koilparampil
Registered: February 2005
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Chennai is located near the 13th north parallel and 80 degree longitude. The city stretches its 19 km length along the Coromandel coast and extends inland about 9 km at its widest. Its irregular shape covers about 172 sq km. It is a fairly low-lying strip of land, its highest point being only 60 m above sea level. formerly known as Madras is the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and is on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal. With an estimated population of 7.5 million (07), it is the fourth largest metropolitan city in India and one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world . The city was established in the seventeenth century by the British, who developed it into a major urban center and naval base. By the twentieth century, it became an important administrative center, as the capital of the Madras Presidency.
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