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Chennai

India

Watercolour of Chennai, India. On the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal, with Kapaleeshwarar Temple and Marina Beach.
AI-generated artistic rendering. Painted from written research on the city's setting, architecture and materials — not from a photograph.
What guided this image
Landmarks
Kapaleeshwarar Temple; Marina Beach; Madras High Court and Chennai Central Railway Station; Fort St. George; Saint Thomas the Apostle; Adyar Estuary and Theosophical Society; lush coastal tropical flora; Tamil Dravidian
Viewpoint
Favor an elevated coastal viewpoint looking along Marina Beach toward the historic city or overlooking the Mylapore temple tank toward the Kapaleeshwarar gopuram, showing coastal coconut palms and wooden catamaran boats in the foreground, the majestic sculptured gopuram or Indo-Saracenic domes in the middle-ground, and the vast Bay of Bengal horizon in the background.
Palette
Green should be the predominant color, especially in the thick canopies of the Theosophical Society banyan woods, coconut palms along Marina Beach, and Adyar estuary parklands.
Guarded against
Not Mumbai, Kolkata, or Bengaluru
Population4,681,087Wikidata: 4,646,732
Coordinates13.09°N, 80.28°E
Elevation6 m
Area426,830,040 km²
Time zoneAsia/KolkataUTC+5:30
Solar noon12:09clock runs 0.1 h ahead of the sun

Through the Earth

Dig straight through the Earth from Chennai and you surface in open ocean, nearest to Puerto Villamil, Ecuador — 1,658 km from the exact antipodal point.

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