Tiruvadanai taluk is a taluk of Ramanathapuram district

Ramanathapuram District

Ramanathapuram District is an administrative district of Tamil Nadu state in southern India. The city of Ramanathapuram is the district headquarters. Ramanthapuram District has an area of 4123 km²...

 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 Tiruvadanai

Tiruvadanai

This Shiva temple is a vast temple at Tiruvaadanai near Devakottai. This temple is regarded as the 8th of the Tevara Stalams in the Pandya region of Tamilnadu.-Mythology:...

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Population

According to the 2001 census, the taluk of Tiruvadanai had a population of 188,013 with 90,263 males and 97,750 females. There were 1083 women for every 1000 men. The taluk had a literacy rate of 71.77. The total number of households was 42,005.