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Kilambakkam

Kilambakkam is a neighborhood in Tambaram, Chennai City, Tamil Nadu, India.

Kilambakkam
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The place

Kilambakkam is a neighborhood in Tambaram, Chennai City, Tamil Nadu, India. It is located between Vandalur and Urapakkam along Grand Southern Trunk Road. It is the entrance gateway for the Chennai metropolitan area from the southern end. CMDA has constructed a bus terminus for South bound buses and Extension of Metro Rail Phase 1 of Chennai Metro Rail Limited.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kilambakkam

5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Arignar Anna Zoological Park

    Arignar Anna Zoological Park also known as the Vandalur Zoo, is a zoological garden in Chennai, India. It is located at Vandalur in the south western part of the city, about 32 km from the city center.

    2.9 km · zoo in Vandalur, Tamil Nadu, India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Dandeeswarar Temple

    Dhandeeswarar Temple is a Shiva temple situated in Velachery, a suburb of Chennai. The temple was built during the Pallava reign and was repaired and rebuilt during the Chola reign.

    2.8 km · temple in India · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology

    B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology is a private deemed university located in Tamil Nadu, India. Founded in 1984, Crescent was one of the first self-financing engineering institutions in the Indian State of Tamil Nadu.

    1.4 km · Private University in Tamil Nadu, India · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    PERI Institute of Technology

    Anna University in Tamil Nadu, India has many affiliated institutions.

    2.4 km · higher education institute in India · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Nandeesvarar Temple, Nandivanam

    Nandeesvarar Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to the deity Shiva, located at Nandivanam in Chennai City, Kanchipuram district, Tamil Nadu, India.

    2.8 km · Hindu temple · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Kilambakkam

Airports
Chennai (MAA), 17 km · Tirupati (TIR), 103 km · Kempegowda Bengaluru (BLR), 259 km
Stations
Urapakkam railway station, 400 m · Vandalur railway station, 2.7 km · Guduvancheri railway station, 3.3 km · Kilambakkam railway station, 600 m
  • Tirupati → Kilambakkam
    80 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · ₹730–910
  • Bengaluru → Kilambakkam
    269 km · quickest by road, 4h 53m · ₹1,990–2,490
  • Tiruchirappalli → Kilambakkam
    274 km · quickest by road, 4h 40m · ₹1,890–2,360
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kilambakkam

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kilambakkam. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    428 km
  2. 02
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    431 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    444 km
  4. 04
    NelliyampathyIN

    7 ways of moving, 26 sources

    452 km
  5. 05
    HampiIN

    8 ways of moving, 18 sources

    476 km

If you know how people move in Kilambakkam – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Kilambakkam

Kilambakkam is 27 km from Ambattur, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.