Alangudi taluk is a taluk of Pudukkottai district

Pudukkottai District

Pudukkottai District is a district of Tamil Nadu state in southern India. The city of Pudukkottai is the district headquarters...

 of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...

. The headquarters of the taluk is the town of Alangudi

Population

According to the 2001 census, the taluk of Alangudi had a population of 257,823 with 129,179 males and 128,164 females. There were 996 women for every 1000 men. The taluk had a literacy rate of 72.95. The total number of households was 53,963.

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