Virudhunagar
Virudhunagar district is fomous of its temples and foods .Its one of the municipalities in virudhunagar district of the south indian state of tamil nadu .in the beginning of 20th century AD; virudhupatti was one among the six impartant places of Ramanathapuram district.
Due to the rapaid growth in the field of trade and education , it was renamed as virudhunagar an 29 october 1923
The virudhu means award in tamil. Virudhunagar is very fomous for business . Virudhunagar does not produce anything but exports everthing . Its a business hub like singapore. All agriculture products like chilly ,sesome are brought to virudhunagar to sell and all buyer come to virudhunagar to buy .Thus got a saying virudhunagar does not produce any thing but export every thing . Former chief minister of madras province and president of the indian national congress K.KAMARAJAR. Were born here virudhunagar assembly constituency is part of virudhunagar (lok sabha constitvency)
History
The 19 th century AD, district collectors and judges appainted by the britist controlled the area . In 1910 ,the district of Ramanathapuram was created for reasons of administrative canvenience .By carving -out territaries from madurai and tirunelveli districts . In 1948 ,ofther india attained in dependence. the zanins were abalished .In 1980, the ramanathapuram district was trifurcated to create the districts of ramnathapuram ,pasumpan ,muthuramalinga thever tirumagan (later ranamed sivaganga ) and kamarajar district (later renamed virudhunagar district ).The district headquarters is 4232 Sq.km and is divided into 8 taluks ,namely aruppukkottai ,kariapatti , rajapalayam ,sattur , sivakasi ,sriviliputtur , tiruchuli and virudhunagar
City details
country: india
state :tamilnadu
district (s) : virudhunagar
sub district : sivakasi, aruppukottai,sriviliputtur,
headquarters: virudhunagar
population : 730032
coordinates: 9 34' 59" N 77 57'29"E
lanquage :tamil,english,thelungu
area :4234 Sq.KM
temperature: sumer. max 37.1C min 20.4C
during(april may june)