Tamilnadu

Tamilnadu

Capital :

Chennai

Population :

Langauges :

Major Crops :

Bajra , Chillies , Coconut , Coffee , Cotton , Groundnut , Jowar , Maize , Pulses , Ragi , Sesame , Sugarcane , Sunflower , Tea .

Major Ind. :

Allied Industries , Ancillaries , Automobiles , Bicycles , Cement , Chemical Fertilisers , Cotton Textiles , Diesel Engine Plant , Iron , Paper And Its Products , Printing , Rail Coaches , Railway Wagons , Steel , Sugar . Timber .

Minerals :

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Airports :

Chennai , Coimbatore , Madurai , Neyveli , Salem , Thanjavur , Tiruchirapally , Tuticorin .

Ports :

Chennai , Tuticorin .

About :

Tamil Nadu consists of the erstwhile Madras Presidency under British rule minus the Telugu speaking area which was made into a separate State in 1953, and the Malayalam speaking area of Malabar transferred to Kerala in 1956. The name Tamil Nadu was adopted on Jan 14, 1969.