Parangimalai
Hillock in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Parangimalai (known in English as St. Thomas Mount) is a small hillock in the Chennai district of Tamil Nadu, India, near the neighbourhood of Guindy and very close to Chennai International Airport. By extension, it is also the name of the neighbourhood surrounding the hillock.
Parangimalai
பரங்கிமலை Bhringimalai St. Thomas Mount | |
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Coordinates: 13°00′28.1″N 80°11′33.0″E | |
Country | India |
State | Tamil Nadu |
Metro | Chennai |
Government | |
• Body | St.Thomas Mount-cum-Pallavaram |
Elevation | 91.44 m (300.00 ft) |
Languages | |
• Official | Tamil |
Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
Planning agency | CMDA |
The neighbourhood is served by the St. Thomas Mount railway station, on the southern line of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network.[citation needed] Integration of the Metro and MRTS with the suburban station in the neighbourhood, is expected to make the suburb the city's largest transit hub after Chennai Central.[1]
In the state assembly elections of 1967 and 1971, there was a constituency known as the Parangimalai.