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Sirkazhi taluk

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 10, 2020
Entity authorityQ12978563 ↗
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Sirkazhi taluk is a taluk of Mayiladuthurai district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The headquarters of the taluk is the town of Sirkazhi

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, the taluk of Sirkazhi had a population of 318,875 with 157,621 males and 161,254 females. There were 1023 women for every 1000 men. The taluk had a literacy rate of 73.67. Child population in the age group below 6 was 15,995 Males and 15,185 Females.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sirkazhi taluk” 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.