Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, India
Nagercoil
Nagercoil ("Temple of the Nāgas", Nagaraja Temple) is a city in the southernmost Indian district of Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu and a municipal corporation. It is the administrative headquarters of Kanyakumari District in Tamil Nadu. The city, situated close to the tip of the Indian peninsula, lies in an undulating terrain between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea.The present city of Nagercoil grew around Kottar, a mercantile town that dates back to the Sangam period.[4] Kottar is now a locality within the city limits. For 735 years it was a central part of the erstwhile Travancore kingdom and later Kerala State, till almost a decade after India's independence from Britain in 1947. In 1956, Kanyakumari District, along with the town, was merged with Tamil Nadu.
The city is a centre for a range of economic activities in the small but densely-populated district, including tourism, software, wind energy, marine fish production and exports, rubber and cloves plantations, agro-crops, floral production, manufacture of fish nets, rubber products among other activities.
‘Nagercoil Cloves’ is a distinct quality of dried cloves in the spices market, noted for its aroma. Cloves, pepper and other spices are grown in estates in the Western Ghats, outside the city.
Nagercoil is also the nearest city corporation to the ISRO Propulsion Complex, Mahendragiri and the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant.
The city, along with the district of Kanyakumari, stands at the top in many HDI parameters in Tamil Nadu state, including education, per capita income, health indices, etc.
The municipality of Nagercoil was upgraded as a Municipal corporation on the eve of its 100th year as a city on February 14th 2019.