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Adoni (city)
Adoni, a municipality in Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh, India; also Adoni town. Historic fort city of Vijayanagar and Bijapur, now a cotton and groundnut trading hub with 184,625 people (2011 census).
Alappuzha (ആലപ്പുഴ)
Alappuzha (ആലപ്പുഴ), formerly Alleppey, is a Kerala port town planned in 1762 by Travancore's ruler for the spice trade, developed by Dewan Raja Kesava Das, famed as the Venice of the East and center of the coir industry.
Amaravati (అమరావతి)
Amaravati (అమరావతి) is Andhra Pradesh's planned greenfield capital city between Vijayawada and Guntur on the Krishna river, built through a Land Pooling Scheme covering over 34,000 acres from nearly 29,000 farmers, with a tentative cost of ₹52,000 crores.
Anantapur (అనంతపురం)
Anantapur (అనంతపురం), or Ananthapuramu, is a city in Rayalaseema, Andhra Pradesh, and district headquarters. Known as Groundnut city; population 2.96 lakh (2018); district formed 1882 from Bellary.
Attingal
Attingal (ആറ്റിങ്ങല്) is a municipality in Chirayinkeezhu taluk, Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala, on the Vamanapuram river, 33 km from the city; seat of the Attingal Ranis and site of the 1721 Attingal Revolt; population 37,346 (2011).
Avadi
Avadi (ஆவடி), a municipal corporation city in Thiruvallur district on Chennai's north-west edge; 65 sq km, 344,701 people (2011); India's tank-making hub with HVF, Engine Factory, CVRDE and AVNL headquarters.
Badami (ಬದಾಮಿ)
Badami (ಬದಾಮಿ), ancient Vatapi, is a Karnataka town and Early Chalukya capital with four 6th-century red sandstone cave temples, Cave 3 dated 578 CE, on UNESCO's tentative Aihole-Badami-Pattadakal list.
Ballari
Ballari (Bellary), Karnataka's Iron City and district headquarters in eastern Karnataka, holds 25% of India's iron ore reserves, hosts JSW Vijayanagar Works, and is known for Ballari Fort, textiles, and semi-arid climate.
Bangalore
Bangalore (Bengaluru), capital of Karnataka, India, founded 1537 by Kempe Gowda; megacity of over ten million, India's third most populous city, known as the Silicon Valley of India, facing severe water stress and flooding.
Belgaum (ಬೆಳಗಾವಿ)
Belgaum, officially Belagavi (ಬೆಳಗಾವಿ) since 2014, is a city and district in northwestern Karnataka, formerly Venugrama. Second-largest Karnataka district by 2011 population (47,79,661), a foundry hub, and site of the state's winter legislature at Suvarna Vidhana Soudha.
Bhadrāvati, Karnataka
Bhadravati (ಭದ್ರಾವತಿ), Karnataka city on the Bhadra River in Shivamogga district; home of Visvesvaraya Iron & Steel Plant (SAIL, founded 1918, pig iron 1923) and Mysore Paper Mills; 151,102 residents (2011).
Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh
Bhimavaram (భీమవరం), West Godavari district headquarters in Andhra Pradesh since April 2022; Godavari delta city of about 147,000 (2011), home of the Somarama Pancharama temple and India's largest brackishwater shrimp aquaculture cluster.
Bidar (ಬೀದರ್)
Bidar (ಬೀದರ್), hill-top city in north-eastern Karnataka; Bahmani capital from 1424, Barid Shahi seat, home of Bidri ware, the laterite Bidar Fort, karez qanats, Guru Nanak Jhira Sahib, and an IAF Hawk training base.
Bijapur
Bijapur, officially Vijayapura since 2014, is a city in northern Karnataka, India, former capital of the Adil Shahi sultans (1489-1686), home to the Gol Gumbaz mausoleum with the world's second largest dome and its Whispering Gallery.
Bylakuppe
Bylakuppe, a town in Karnataka about 90 km from Mysore, hosts India's largest Tibetan refugee settlement complex: Lugsung Samdupling (founded 1960) and Dickey Larsoe, with roughly 15,000-18,000 residents, Sera and Namdroling monasteries, and an agrarian economy.
Chennai (சென்னை)
Chennai (சென்னை), formerly Madras, capital of Tamil Nadu on the Coromandel Coast; home to India's oldest municipal corporation (1688), about 426 sq km, 7.1 million people, facing flooding, heat, and water scarcity.
Chennai district
Chennai district (சென்னை மாவட்டம்), formerly Madras district, is the Tamil Nadu district containing the state capital on the Coromandel Coast: 426 sq km, 3 revenue divisions, 16 taluks, and the 1688-founded Greater Chennai Corporation with 15 zones and 200 wards.
Chidambaram (சிதம்பரம்)
Chidambaram (சிதம்பரம்) is a municipality since 1873 in Cuddalore district, Tamil Nadu, built around the Nataraja Temple, with a 2011 population of 62,153 and nearby Annamalai University.
Chikmagalur
Chikmagalur (Chikkamagaluru, ಚಿಕ್ಕಮಗಳೂರು), a coffee-growing district in southwestern Karnataka, India; birthplace of Indian coffee at Baba Budan Giri (1670), home of the Central Coffee Research Institute, Mullayanagiri peak, and Indira Gandhi's 1978 Lok Sabha comeback.
Chitradurga
Chitradurga (Kannada: ಚಿತ್ರದುರ್ಗ), also Chitrakaladurga, is a city and district in central Karnataka, 202 km northwest of Bengaluru, famed for its seven-rampart hill fort, Nayaka rulers, and the Upper Bhadra irrigation project.
Chittoor
Chittoor (చిత్తూరు), Andhra Pradesh city and district headquarters; formed 1 April 1911 from North Arcot and Kadapa territory; 189,332 people (2011); leading mango producer and pulp-processing center.
Coimbatore (கோயம்புத்தூர்)
Coimbatore (கோயம்புத்தூர்), also called Kovai, is Tamil Nadu's second largest city on the Noyyal River, a textile and pump-manufacturing hub known as the Manchester of South India and a Smart Cities Mission city.
Coonoor (குன்னூர்)
Coonoor (குன்னூர்), a tea-estate hill town and 1866 municipality in the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, at about 6,050 ft; second largest Nilgiri town after Ooty, on the Nilgiri Mountain Railway, reached by train in 1899.
Cuddalore
Cuddalore (கடலூர்), Tamil Nadu coastal city and district headquarters on the Coromandel Coast; 2,605,914 people (2011), sugarcane belt, historic Fort St David, cyclone- and tsunami-prone.
Davangere
Davangere (Davanagere, ದಾವಣಗೆರೆ), central Karnataka city and district headquarters formed 15 August 1997; the "Manchester of Karnataka," a textile, agro-processing, and education hub on the Tungabhadra.
Dharwad (ಧಾರವಾಡ)
Dharwad (ಧಾರವಾಡ), Karnataka district and town forming the Hubballi-Dharwad twin city; administrative and educational hub with Karnatak University, 4,263 sq km, 1.85 million people (2011), GI-tagged Dharwad pedha.
Dindigul
Dindigul (திண்டுக்கல்) is a city and district headquarters in central Tamil Nadu, India, known for its 1605 Nayak hill fort, British-era history, and GI-tagged lock and tannery industries.
Electronics City
Electronics City is an industrial and information technology township on the Bengaluru–Hosur highway in Bengaluru, India, established in 1978 by KEONICS, with Infosys, Wipro, and more than 350 establishments.
Eluru
Eluru (Telugu: ఏలూరు) is a city and district headquarters in coastal Andhra Pradesh, India. Its district, formed in 2022 from West Godavari and Krishna mandals, has 28 mandals, about 2 million people (2011), and a paddy, aquaculture, and wool-carpet economy.
Ernakulam (എറണാകുളം)
Ernakulam (എറണാകുളം) is a district of Kerala, India, on the Arabian Sea coast with its headquarters at Kochi, the state's major industrial, financial, and commercial hub.