(/?tæm?l ?n??du?/ tam-il-nah-doo;About this sound Tamil pronunciation (help·info); literallyThe Land

Posted by ROSHAN B.S on Aug. 25, 2014, 7:16 p.m.

Tamil Nadu (/?tæm?l ?n??du?/ tam-il-nah-doo; Tamil pronunciation (help·info); literallyThe Land of Tamils or Tamil Country) is one of the 29 states of India. Its capital isChennai (formerly known as Madras), the largest city. Tamil Nadu^[6] lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory ofPuducherry and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh. It is bounded by the Eastern Ghats on the north, by the Nilgiri, the Anamalai Hills, and Kerala on the west, by the Bay of Bengal in the east, by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait on the southeast, and by the Indian Ocean on the south.