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Madurai

India

Watercolour of Madurai, India. Centered around Meenakshi Amman Temple with its towering sculpted gopurams, Golden Lotus Tank, and Thirumalai Nayakkar Mahal. Featuring Meenakshi Amman Temple and Golden Lotus Tank.
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
Meenakshi Amman Temple; Golden Lotus Tank; Hall of Thousand Pillars; Thirumalai Nayakkar Mahal; Vandiyur Mariamman Teppakulam; Vaigai River; lush Tamil Nadu plain flora; Tamil Sangam
Viewpoint
Favor the classic viewpoint looking across the landscape toward the signature landmarks of Madurai, showing regional foliage and foreground textures, the iconic architectural monuments in the middle-ground, and the distant horizon fading in the background.
Palette
Green should be the predominant color, especially in thick palmyra and coconut palms, flowering jasmine shrubs, and ancient banyans.
Population1,465,625Wikidata: 1,561,129
Coordinates9.92°N, 78.12°E
Elevation101 m
Area148 km²
Time zoneAsia/KolkataUTC+5:30
Solar noon12:18clock runs 0.3 h ahead of the sun

Through the Earth

Dig straight through the Earth from Madurai and you surface in open ocean, nearest to Puerto Villamil, Ecuador — 1,565 km from the exact antipodal point.

Nearest cities in the atlas

TiruchirappalliIN118 km
TirunelveliIN141 km
CoimbatoreIN175 km
KallakurichiIN221 km
BengaluruIN344 km
ColomboLK382 km
Sri Jayewardenepura KotteLK391 km
ChennaiIN424 km

Twinned cities

Wikidata records no twinned cities for Madurai inside this atlas.

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