Madurantakam taluk is a taluk of Kanchipuram district

Kanchipuram district

Kanchipuram district is a district in the northeast of the state of Tamil Nadu in India. It is bounded in the west by Vellore and Thiruvannamalai districts, in the north by Thiruvallur District and Chennai District, in the south by Viluppuram District and in the east by the Bay of Bengal. It lies...

 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 Madurantakam

Madurantakam

Madurantakam is a town located in the Kanchipuram district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. The town is situated 77 km south west of Chennai .- Temples :...

Population

According to the 2001 census, the taluk of Madurantakam had a population of 254,845 with 127,784 males and 127,061 females. There were 994 women for every 1000 men. The taluk had a literacy rate of 66.72. The total number of households was 57,363.