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Nagercoil is the twelfth largest town in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu (after Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai, Trichy,Tirunelveli, Salem, Tiruppur, Erode, Vellore, Thoothukudi and Thanjavur) and a municipality in Kanyakumari district. It is the southernmost city on the Indian mainland, situated close to the tip of the Indian peninsula. The town is also the administrative headquarters of Kanyakumari District. It was a part of the erstwhile Travancore state, or later Travancore-Cochin state, till almost a decade after India's Independence from Britain in 1947. In 1956, the city and the District were merged with Tamil Nadu. In its earlier days, the town and its surroundings were known as Nanjilnadu. |
