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Mangavilai

Mangavilai is a village in Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu, India.

Mangavilai
Mangavilai · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Mangavilai is a village in Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu, India. It is administered under Dharmapuram Panchayat, and is located 9 km away from Nagercoil, the district headquarters of Kanyakumari. The name Mangavilai means 'indestroyable fame'.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mangavilai

4 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
    Padmanabhapuram Palace

    Padmanabhapuram Palace, also known as Kalkulam Palace, is a Travancore-era palace located in Padmanabhapuram in the Kanyakumari district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The palace is owned, controlled and maintained by the Kerala Government.

    3.5 km · palace in Travancore · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Udayagiri Fort

    Fort in Tamil Nadu, India

    2.1 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St. Antony's Church, Chemmanvilai

    St. Antony's Church, Chemmanvilai[1] is a Roman Catholic Church located in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, India.

    1.6 km · church in Chemmanvilai · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education

    Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education, formerly Noorul Islam College of Engineering, is a private co-educational Institution in Kumarakovil, Thuckalay, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India. The institution was founded in 1989 by A.P. Majeed Khan and it was declared as a Deemed to be University by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt.

    2.4 km · University in India · 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 Mangavilai

Airports
Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 55 km · Cochin (COK), 238 km
  • Thiruvananthapuram → Mangavilai
    65 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · ₹510–630
  • Kochi → Mangavilai
    239 km · quickest by road, 5h 50m · ₹1,890–2,360
  • Coimbatore → Mangavilai
    325 km · quickest by road, 7h 49m · ₹2,830–3,540
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mangavilai

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 Mangavilai. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundAutorickshaws, taxis and local buses are easily available.

From Wikivoyage: Nagercoil, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

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

    6 ways of moving, 16 sources

    136 km
  2. 02
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    146 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    203 km
  4. 04
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    217 km
  5. 05
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    222 km

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

Around it

Next door to Mangavilai

Mangavilai is 52 km from Thiruvananthapuram, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Padmanabhapuramtown in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, India3.7 km
  • VillukuriVillage in Kanniyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India2.3 km
  • MandaikaduVillage in Kanniyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India2.7 km
  • KumarapuramVillage in Kanniyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India2.7 km
  • AlurVillage in Kanniyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India3.3 km
  • Valliyurtown panchayat in Tamil Nadu, India2.2 km