Vellore (ind)

Vellore

Vellore ranks 9,771st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Kirksville, Missouri, Ulan-Ude, and Chust, Uzbekistan. Memorable people born in Vellore include Vani Jairam, Radhika Apte, and Vishnu Saravanan. Memorable people who died in Vellore include Periyar E. V. Ramasamy. Vellore has been the birth place of many singers, and actors and the death place of many politicians. Vellore is located in India.

Vellore, also natively spelt as Velur, is a sprawling city and the administrative headquarters of Vellore district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located on the banks of the Palar River in the northeastern part of Tamil Nadu and is separated into four zones that are further subdivided into 60 wards, covering an area of 76.09 km2 and housing a population of 315128 as reported by the 2011 census. It is located about 137.20 kilometres (85 mi) west of Chennai, and about 213.20 kilometres (132 mi) east of Bangalore. Vellore is located on the Mumbai–Chennai arm of the Golden Quadrilateral. Vellore is governed under a mayor and the Vellore Municipal Corporation. It is a part of both the Lok Sabha and state assembly constituencies of Vellore. Read more on Wikipedia