Vilavancode

Vilavancode
Vilavancode
panchayat town
	Vilavancode Location in Tamil Nadu, India
	Coordinates: 8.3129°N 77.2048°E
Country	India
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Kanyakumari
Population (2011)
• Total	590,567
Languages
• Official	Tamil
• Spoken	Tamil, Malayalam
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)

Vilavancode, also spelt as Viḷavaṅgōḍu, is a town panchayat in Kanyakumari district in Tamil Nadu state, India. It is part of territory among several taluks that were with the Thiruvananthapuram district that with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act of 1956 transferred from Thiruvananthapuram district, Travancore-Cochin State to the newly created Kanyakumari district of Madras State (the latter later renamed as Tamil Nadu State).

History

Boundary

Vilavancode was part of Travancore Kingdom, the latter which subsequently became part of the then Travancore-Cochin State. Part of The States Reorganisation Act of 1956 aligned state boundaries on linguistic affiliations. Thovalai, Kalkulam, Vilavancode, and Agastheeswaram Taluks were transferred from Thiruvananthapuram District of the Travancore-Cochin State to Kanyakumari district, Madras State. Madras was later renamed as Tamil Nadu).

Religions

Religions in Vilavancode Taluka
Religion			Percent
Christians			58.45%
Hindus			38.63%
Muslims			2.48%
Others			0.44%

Politics

Vilavancode assembly constituency is part of Kanyakumari Lok Sabha constituency.[1]

References

"List of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies" (PDF). Tamil Nadu. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 May 2006. Retrieved 13 October 2008.

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[1] "List of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies" (PDF). Tamil Nadu. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 May 2006. Retrieved 13 October 2008.