Tamil Nadu is a state in southern India known for its Dravidian culture and heritage dating back thousands of years. It has a long history of rule under dynasties like the Pallavas, Cholas, and Pandyas who greatly advanced the arts, architecture, and Tamil language. Tamil Nadu is home to diverse landscapes from coastal plains to Western Ghats mountains, and continues many cultural traditions while also being a center of industry today.

1. The Land of Tamils……

2.  Tamil Nadu , a state in southern India is bordered with
Pondicherry, Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
 It is regarded as the cradle of Dravidian culture with its
cultural paraphernalia speckled all across the state in
the form of magnificent temples, gateways, intricate
carvings, and the society seeped in tradition.
 Tamil Nadu is the most urbanized state in India. The
key industries of the state are heavy engineering and
manufacturing-based companies and textiles.
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3.  Tamil Nadu is the southern most state of India, surrounded
by Andhra Pradesh from the North, Karnataka and Kerala
from the west, Indian Ocean from the south and Bay of
Bengal from the East.
 Kanyakumari, the southern most point of India lies in the
state of Tamil Nadu.
 The Eastern and Western Ghats run along eastern and
western borders of the state and meet at Sittlingi in
Dharmapuri district, Tamil Nadu.
 The Western Ghats, bordering Tamil Nadu, breaks only at
two points - Palakkad and Shencottah, which connect the
state with Karnataka and Kerala.
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4.  The Western Ghats, bordering Tamil Nadu, breaks
only at two points - Palakkad and Shencottah, which
connect the state with Karnataka and Kerala.
 Tamil Nadu roughly extends between the 8° 04' N
latitude (Cape Comorin) and the 78° 0' E longitude.
 Geographically, Tamil nadu is situated on the eastern
side of the Indian Peninsula between the northern
latitude of 8.5" and 13.35" and the eastern longitude of
76.15" and 80.20".

5.  Tamil Nadu is divided naturally between the flat
country along the eastern coast and the hilly regions in
the north and west.
 The broadest part of the eastern plains is the
fertile Kaveri (Cauvery) River delta; farther south are
the arid flatlands surrounding the cities of
Ramanathapuram and Madurai .
 The high peaks of the Western Ghats run along the
state’s western border.
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6.  Various segments of this mountain range— including
the Nilgiri, Anaimalai, and Palni hills—have peaks
exceeding 8,000 feet (2,400 metres) in elevation.
 Anai Peak, at 8,842 feet (2,695 metres) in the
Anaimalai Hills, is the highest mountain in peninsular
India.
 The lower peaks of the Eastern Ghats and their
outliers—locally called the Javadi, Kalrayan,
and Shevaroy hills—run through the centre of the
region.

7.  The climate of Tamil Nadu is tropical in nature with
little variation in summer and winter temperatures.
 While April-June is the hottest summer period with
the temperature rising up to the 40ºC mark,
November-February is the coolest winter period with
temperature hovering around 20ºC, making the
climate quite pleasant.
 Surprisingly, Tamil Nadu gets all its rains from the
North-east Monsoons between October and
December, when the rest of Tamil Nadu remains dry.
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8.  There are about 2000 species of wildlife that are native to
Tamil Nadu.
 Protected areas provide safe habitat for large mammals
including elephants, tigers, leopards, wild dogs, sloth,
bears, gaurs, lion-tailed macaques, Nilgiri Langurs, Nilgiri
Tahrs, Grizzled Giant, Squirrels and Sambar deer, resident
and migratory birds such
as cormorants, darters, herons, egrets, Open billed
storks, Spoonbills and White Ibises, Little Grebes, Indian
Moorhen, Black-winged stilit, a few migratory Ducks and
occasionally Grey pelicans, marine species such as
the Dugongs, turtles, dolphins and Balanaglossus and a
wide variety of fish and insects.
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9.  Indian Angiospem diversity comprises 17,672 species
with Tamil Nadu leading all states in the country, with
5640 species accounting for 1/3 of the total flora of
India.
 This includes 1559 species of medicinal plants,
533 endemic species, 260 species of wild relatives of
cultivated plants and 230 red-listed species.
 The Gymnosperm diversity of the country is 64
species of which Tamil Nadu has four indigenous
species and about 60 introduced species.
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10.  Tamilnadu has a great tradition of heritage and culture
that developed over 2,000 years ago and still continues
to flourish.
 This great cultural heritage of the state of Tamilnadu
evolved through the rule of dynasties that ruled the
state during various phases of history.
 Many of the ruling dynasties gave patronage to art and
culture that resulted into the development and
evolution of a unique Dravidian culture that
Tamilnadu today symbolizes with.
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11.  Under the rule of the Pallavas, Cholas and the Pandya
kings, there were tremendous growth and
development in the field of art, architecture and
literature, which reached great heights.
 The history of Tamil language can be traced back to
the age of the Tolkapiyam, the Tamil Grammar text,
ascribed to around 500 B.C.
 Similarly, the Sangam literature dates back to 500 B.C.

12.  I’m a Tamilian. I belong from Tamil Nadu; that is why I
chose this state.
 The Dravidians date back to ages and I want to know
more about them.
 This state is rarely touched upon so I chose this state.

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