Kumbakonam (ind)

Kumbakonam

Kumbakonam ranks 4,447th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Indianola, Mississippi, Abomey, and Miyako, Fukuoka. Memorable people born in Kumbakonam include M. S. Swaminathan, Soumya Swaminathan, and S. Shankar. Memorable people who died in Kumbakonam include Srinivasa Ramanujan. Kumbakonam has been the birth place of many politicians and physicians and the death place of many mathematicians. Kumbakonam is located in India.

Kumbakonam, or Kudanthai, is a city municipal corporation in the Thanjavur district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located 40 km (25 mi) from Thanjavur and 282 km (175 mi) from Chennai and is the headquarters of the Kumbakonam taluk of Thanjavur district. It is the second largest city in the district after Thanjavur. The city is bounded by two rivers, the Kaveri River to the north and Arasalar River to the south. Kumbakonam is known as a "Temple town" due to the prevalence of a number of temples here and is noted for its Mahamaham festival, which happens once in 12 years, attracting people from all over the country. Read more on Wikipedia