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Brihadeeswara Temple, Thanjavur
A UNESCO Chola masterpiece with a 66-meter vimana tower topped by an 80-ton granite capstone, engineered without cranes over 1,000 years ago.
58 km · about 65 min drive
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Muthupet
Tamil Nadu, India · Asia
About Muthupet
Muthupet sits on the route: 25 minutes from Adirampattinam, 58km from Brihadeeswara Temple, Thanjavur.
Muthupet is in Tamil Nadu, India, with about 22,000 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Adirampattinam, about 14 km away.
Muthupet is a panchayat town and taluk in the Thiruvarur district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is also known as Pearlpet. Muthupet comes under the Thiruthuraipoondi assembly constituency which elects a member to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly every five years. The current member of the legislativeRead more
assembly (MLA) is Marimuthu of the Communist Party of India, a part of the Nagapattinam (Lok Sabha constituency), which elects its member of parliament (MP) every five years. The Muthupet city in-town panchayat was constituted in 1962. The town comes under the administrative territory of the Thiruvarur District. It extends over an area of 11.80 km2.
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Within an hour or so of Muthupet: Brihadeeswara Temple, Thanjavur (58 km).
Where is Muthupet?
Muthupet is in Tamil Nadu, India, about 14 km from Adirampattinam.
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- Population
- 21,722
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- India
- Region
- Tamil Nadu
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata
- Coordinates
- 10.3950, 79.4935
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