Mayiladuthurai taluk is a taluk of Nagapattinam district 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 Mayiladuthurai

Mayiladuthurai

Mayiladuthurai , formerly known by its Sanskrit names Māyavaram and Mayūram is a town in the Nagapattinam District of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the headquarters of the Mayiladuthurai taluk of Nagapattinam district and is the second-largest town in the district...

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Population

According to the 2001 census, the taluk of Mayiladuthurai had a population of 367,074 with 182,832 males and 184,242 females. There were 1008 women for every 1000 men. The taluk had a literacy rate of 78.62. The total number of households was 82,076.