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Kalligudi

human settlement in India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ6353807 ↗
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Kalligudi is a small town in Kalligudi (taluk), Madurai district, Tamil Nadu State, India.

Kalligudi Chattram is located on National Highway 7

(Jammu Kashmir to Kanyakumari Highway) from 35 km, south of Madurai and 15 km, south of Tirumangalam. Kalligudi village which was the original habitation is interior located approximately 2 km from the Highway. Over time due to the highway Kalligudi chattram became more populous.

Total population of Kalligudi panchayath is 3560.

Amenities

There is one Govt. Hr. Sec. School and one Govt. Primary School.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kalligudi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.