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Chennai
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Chennai
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Madras
Metropolis
Location of Chennai in Tamil Nadu
Coordinates: 13°5'N 80°16'E? / ?13.083°N 80.267°E? / 13.083; 80.267Coordinates: 13°5'N 80°16'E? / ?13.083°N 80.267°E? / 13.083; 80.267
Country
India
State
Tamil Nadu
District
Chennai, Kanchipuram and Tiruvallur
Former name
Madras
Native Languages
Tamil
Established
1639
Government
• Type
Mayor–Council
• Body
Chennai Corporation
• Mayor
Saidai Duraisamy
• Deputy Mayor
P. Benjamin
• Corporation Commissioner
Vikram Kapur
• Police Commissioner
T.K. Rajendran
Area
• Metropolis
426 km2 (164.8 sq mi)
• Metro
1,189 km2 (426 sq mi)
Elevation
6 m (20 ft)
Population (2011)
• Metropolis
6,727,000
• Rank
5th
• Density
16,000/km2 (41,000/sq mi)
• Metro
8,653,521
• Metro rank
4th
Demonym(s)
Chennaiite
Time zone
IST (UTC+05:30)
Pincode(s)
600 XXX
Area code(s)
+91-44
Vehicle registration
TN-01 to TN-14, TN-18, TN-22, TN-85
UN/LOCODE
IN MAA
Official language
Tamil
Spoken languages
Tamil, English
Website
Chennai Corporation
^ The Chennai metropolitan area also includes portions of Kanchipuram and Tiruvallur districts adjoining the Chennai District.
Chennai /'t??nna?/ (also known as Madras i/m?'dra?s/) is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal, it is the biggest industrial and commercial center in South India, and a major cultural, economic and educational centre. Chennai is known as the "Detroit of India" for its automobile industry. It is the fifth-largest city and fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the country and 36th-largest urban area in the world.The city is host to the third-largest expatriate population in India after Mumbai and Delhi, with 35,000 in 2009 and steadily climbing to 82,790, in 2011. Chennai is the only city in South Asia and India to figure in the "52 places to go around the world" by The New York Times. Tourism guide publisher Lonely Planet has named Chennai as one of the top ten cities in the world to visit in 2015. Chennai is ranked as a beta-level city in the Global Cities Index and was ranked the best city in India by India Today in the 2014 annual Indian city survey. Chennai has also been named in the "hottest" cities to live in for 2015 by BBC among global cities with a mixture of both modern and traditional values. National Geographic ranked Chennai as world's 2nd best food city and Chennai was the only Indian city to feature in the list. Chennai was also named as the 9th-best cosmopolitan city in the world by Lonely Planet. The Chennai Metropolitan Area as recently as January 2015 has been ranked the fourth-largest economy in India, and the third-highest GDP per capita.
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