Orathanadu taluk is a taluk of Thanjavur district

Thanjavur District

Thanjavur District is one of the 32 districts of the state of Tamil Nadu, in southeastern India. Its headquarters is Thanjavur.-Geography:...

 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 Orathanadu.

Population

According to the 2001 census, the taluk of Orathanadu had a population of 234,295 with 115,144 males and 119,151 females. There were 1035 women for every 1000 men. The taluk had a literacy rate of 65.7. The total number of households was 51924.