Kochi (ind)

Kochi

Kochi ranks 2,041st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Kufa, Fairfax, Virginia, and Fuzhou. Memorable people born in Kochi include Madhava of Sangamagrama, Revathi, and Asin. Memorable people who died in Kochi include Vasco da Gama, João da Nova, and Balamani Amma. Kochi has been the birth place of many actors, and mathematicians and the death place of many explorers, and writers. Kochi is located in India.

Kochi, also known by its former name Cochin, is a major port city along the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea. It is part of the district of Ernakulam in the state of Kerala. The city is also commonly referred to as Ernakulam. As of 2011, the Kochi Municipal Corporation had a population of 677,381 over an area of 94.88 km2, and the larger Kochi urban agglomeration had over 2.1 million inhabitants within an area of 440 km2, making it the largest and the most populous metropolitan area in Kerala. Kochi city is also part of the Greater Cochin development region and is classified as a Tier-II city by the Government of India. The civic body that governs the city is the Kochi Municipal Corporation, which was constituted in the year 1967, and the statutory bodies that oversee its development are the Greater Cochin Development Authority (GCDA) and the Goshree Islands Development Authority (GIDA). Read more on Wikipedia